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Just like sexy people don't have to say they're sexy, great places to live don't have to send their PR people out to badger/bribe magazines into putting them into silly lists.
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Makes me think of how many times per day I check my facebook page for no reason at all (except that I'm bored or looking for a distraction).
I guess facebook really is the new TV.
In fact, after seeing the word "facebook" in this thread, I have an urge to check my facebook page once again.
im sorry but i dont see anything remarkable about that screencast.
> I'd call Xbox Live a successful, innovative product

How, exactly? Evolving a product is neither revolutionary nor particularly original. A multi-player hub? An app-store? I am pretty much sure everything on this list was invented by someone else. XBL is a successful product, but it's the execution, not being first.

Also, having the whole Xbox user population captive doesn't hurt market share. It's not like they could go to the Playstation hub.

> Zune HD is already on par with the iPod Touch in terms of what the product offers

Also, it's not feature count, it's how well it works on the whole. The iPod was never the feature-count leader - just about every competitor had more features or could perform some tricks the iPods of that time couldn't. It's how well rounded the product is. The iPod is a solid product and was the first really usable music player. It works really well. Besides that, a Zune HD won't work with a Mac, despite the fact iPods work very well with PCs (and, with some fiddling, other Unixes).

I don't always like Apple (their DRM'ed cables are ridiculous and OSX is Unix with a 70's feel when you drop into the terminal) but I have to admit they do some really excellent products my family can use.
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He was married during that entire time (until 1945). This also doesn't take place until after he was at Cornell. Probably around 1946 or 1947.
It'll be just like earthworms. You can cut off your finger and plant it somewhere and create a clone of yourself.
Or is the end (eventually) for the squatting game? When there are hundreds or thousands of alternatives for xyz.com, won't that seriously diminish the worth of any one in particular?
Who's going to be the first to try registering pachelbels.canon?
Why would you want a subsidy? Doesn't AT&T offer discounted plans sans contract?
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So, Canon realizes that half of the programs in the world (if not more) that autodetect urls aren't going to detect http://canon or anemailusername@cannon as urls/emails, right?That limits what they can really do with this.

I guess they could have other stuff redirect to http://canon, and urls for "subdomains", which are now normal domains, become nice and might catch some more url detectors. http://slr.canon and the like. It's still a major problem.
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It might have been nice to see some examples of deep stupidity in the article.

All I got out of the article was you can do stupid stuff and enjoy it.
I bought it but I'm afraid to run it. Does it send any of my data to the server? I wish apps would make that clear.
it just strikes me as a strange thing to write in a crash-and-burn postmortem.

i'm not saying anybody should regret trying and failing. it's accepted wisdom around here that everybody has to do that, sooner or later. but at the same time, acting like you knew better than those people who thought it would fail from the beginning? a strange choice of words.
This, completely separately from anything Canon the company is doing, seems like a useful TLD. HarryPotter.canon, Firefly.canon, etc—to be able to tell when you're not looking at a fan-site of a creative work, but rather a place where any messages delivered through it can be considered, well, canonical.
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"here's the code"? I thought "tech" was short for "technology" only part of which involves code.
does anybody know what you have to do to register your own top-level domain? i hope it's very very expensive, or else we've got another early-nineties-style land-grab on our hands.
Japan’s mythical debt crisis
To follow up with some potentially helpful feedback: Why not allow people to create "regular" accounts, and then they can associate their Facebook account with the account later? I'm not opposed to associating my Facebook account with services I value (for example, I connected to Flippa) -- I just don't want to do it upfront.
Good call. BTW, after having fun with Squeak and VisualWorks for a long time, I have switched to the Squeak fork project Pharo (http://www.pharo-project.org/home).
Poor market share despite overwhelming resources is evidence of either poor execution or a major external influence on public opinion. Apple fanboyism and Microsoft hate don't quite explain the extent of the zune's failure.
I don't hate it, indeed I like the idea of.anigbrowl or so :-)
I think domain names themselves are transient, in recent years I find myself doing things like searching for 'Canon camera' and letting Chrome and Google take care of the routing.

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It's cuz p21 regulates the cell cycle (mitosis). p21 is a CDK inhibitor. CDK is necessary for the cell cycle to proceed past "checkpoints". So when you have p21, you have CDK inhibitors, so cell division doesn't proceed. No p21 = less inhibition = more growth. (And unchecked growth is one main cause of tumors).
I should have mentioned: Pharo uses the Squeak VM, but has its own (derived) sources and image files. When I give kudos to Pharo, those complements apply also to the original Squeak project.
The HGP: How Government Can Promote Social Bubbles for Fun and Profit
You should check out http://tungle.me, it's a much more complete product (calendar syncing, nicer UI)
Your HN submission link is broken, at least for NYT. It strips GET parameters.
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It's pretty darn expensive, starting with a $185,000 "evaluation fee" to ICANN, and then whatever it costs to run a registrar. (I expect you'll be able to outsource the latter.)

See http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/strategy-faq.htm
JooJoo Refunds Smell Awfully Fishy
Hi Paul, I heard about i/o after the deadline. Are you still accepting applications?
Ask HN: Is anyone doing any significant work with the play framework?
Guys,

Long time Java and Ruby guy here. Most recently have spent much of my time with Rails, which I really enjoy...most of the time. However, I find it infuriating at times to read through some of the code of the framework itself...the magic(tm) of ruby simply makes it difficult to trace at times. To boot, none, and I mean none (including RubyMine) of the available IDEs do a great job of ruby source navigation. They're at times adequate, but a far cry of the capabilities Java IDEs give you.

Four months ago, someone posted a link to playframework.org. I glanced it over, half interested but wary of picking up and learning yet another half-assed attempt at copying Rails to the Java world (I'm looking at you, Grails). However, earlier this week, something made me think of it, and having some spare time, I downloaded it and walked through the tutorial.

I am blown away.

play! supports just about every feature I can think of that I find so appealing in Rails, but it does so in Java. The code is clean. The project seems mature. The layout of a project is almost identical to a Rails project, so it's very easy for a Rails developer like me to grok. It will generate project files for Eclipse, Netbeans, Textmate and Intellij on command. It will walk your dog and make love to your wife, while finishing up the yard work you've recently neglected. Ok, that might be a stretch, but you get the idea.

The only thing I find missing is not really a problem with play! but rather a limitation of Java...I am completely, totally addicted to Ruby's blocks. I love being able to collection.each{|one|} over lists...it just feels right.

That said, play!'s clean code and style make Java palatable again, and the speed is fast(!). It's the first time I've been excited about Java development in a long time. I'm really surprised the buzz around it has been rather quiet. I think it's a Java web development game changer.

So, sorry about the blathering, but I'm curious...are any other HN'ers using play? If so, what's your experience been so far? Have you run into any limitations that would cause you to steer others away from it? Have you deployed to production yet?

Please share your experience or thoughts on play, if you don't mind.

Thanks.
It's irrelevant how awesome Olathe is. Relocation is a big deal for very personal reasons. The GC Team decided against it. What is most spectacular is the way they have dealt with the situation. They are blunt, but respectful. They are confident, but not arrogant. Anyone looking for a team to develop mobile devices would be drooling at their mouths over this.
Interesting. My talks (at least with older people who went to college) have given me quite a different perspective - where people would typically marry very young (often out of college), and no one would even think of having sex without at least being engaged.

I don't doubt the truth of this story (though there is certainly hyperbole); rather I find it hard to believe that
'sleep with' in this context actually means 'sex'. The main flags are A) Feynman is discussing with other people about it (afaik not acceptable socially then) and B) a sexual one-night stand would be even less so.

Finally I wager that the teen birth rate drop is solely due to an increase in education and contraption (and even legalized abortions). Obviously, there were some teenagers having sex in the 1940s (with a much higher liklihood of becoming pregnant right now), but, due to the risks and less acceptance than now, the rate was lower.
http://doodle.com is yet another competitor.
Fascinating, but the article doesn't really explain how the pulses help build up the images for the gentleman by relaying it to the tongue. Or did I miss something?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBzQI_7ez8

"Obama: You know, when I was a kid... I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
I was lucky enough to meet with one of I/Os mentors this last week ... I have to say there is a really cool bunch of guys on their mentor list.

Although I was a little disappointed I/O didn't get back to me after he emailed on my behalf. :(
I believe Fusion Garage's story, actually. PayPal has been slow to refund money to an actual bank account/credit card for me in the past. Not surprising.

Maybe their email exchange and the whole bank account thing sounds a bit weird, but perhaps they were really trying to make it right for the customer.
When you don't back up YOUR claim (which sounds like anecdotal evidence from a non-professional) it makes me not want to trust anything YOU say.
How the NASCAR-like experience of new PCs hurts customer confidence
I'm not really sure why others are so paranoid about logging in via FB Connect. Honestly, going forward, I think FB connect / Twitter etc. are going to emerge as the primary means for logging in -

check out Dave mcclure's post about password friction below:

http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/02/subscriptions-ar...
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Yeah, pushups are definitely a miracle upper body workout. I wonder if there is an equivalent for legs??
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I should have just down-voted the affiliate link and left it at that. Something's changed in the tenor of comments here on HN, and my reaction to it isn't productive. For the foreseeable future, I think I'm going to bite my tongue and read in silence.
@ccheever:

Your signup form email validator is broken; i have a .es domain and it refuses it....
It was also before mass production of penicillin. Venereal diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea were a much bigger deal back then.
Google loses Nexus One trademark to Portland-based Integra Telecom
Roger Ebert provides a relevant peek under history's skirt. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/making_out_is_its_ow...

Keep in mind that these were students living under strict authority. The adults in Feynman's story and elsewhere were free to do as they pleased.
How is that principled?? You hate when others benefit even if it's at no detriment to you?? SCARCITY THINKING :_(

Okay, if you like reading text on your screen, you can also read it for free here: http://www.gorgorat.com
I think this is an intriguing idea for a blog and will add it to my small list of reads. I look forward to giving it a chance.
I worked in Olathe, Kansas for about eight years before moving to Portland, Oregon. I wouldn't personally move back, but I sure do miss the BBQ and significantly lower cost of living.

Assuming they would have kept their SF salaries - they would have felt like they got a pretty sweet raise. On the flip side, Kansas doesn't offer anywhere near the culture or available activities.

They way they choose to handle this was pretty cool though, good for them!
I was clicking through some of the team's profile and Anothony Pelosi ticked "Willing To Relocate: Yes" on his resume on dice.com. Obviously, this shouldn't be taken at face value. The truth is, no employeee is willing to relocate unless it's obviously beneficial to them, which is not always the case.
Google trials ads on Gmaps in AU. Limited to relevant company logos.
I've seen Quora referenced a bunch lately, and have been excited to try it out. The design (from the outside) looks really good, and I suspect that your team has crafted a really polished UX. I'd love to check it out. But ...

I'm not going to sign up via Facebook Connect, but it's not because I don't like linking that profile. It's because the Facebook ID approval page notes that you'd be publishing content to my wall. I'm not comfortable with that. Maybe that's a templated display that's shown on all Facebook Connect pages. I don't know. But it's enough to stop me from signing up.

Just another datapoint.
Is it just me or does the note play when it hits the left edge of the highlight? This seems counter intuitive.
Without apologizing for incivility, I own a Kindle and am now experiencing the new sensation of hardware fanboyism. Let me try to convey why: a significant portion of my life is my relationship to the printed word, and the Kindle has totally revolutionized that relationship. I carry it with me everywhere I go. I spend more time on it than I spend on my cell phone, phone, television, and all forms of printed matter combined.

It has changed where I read, it has changed when I read, it has changed how I read, it has changed who I read. It has seriously changed my life more than any electronic gadget since my first cell phone 7 years ago.

There are clouds on the horizon for me, though: the publishers seem to see my Kindle, and by extension me, as a threat to their business models. This displeases me greatly, because I buy and read a lot of books. (Call it a hundred per year... probably more since buying the Kindle.) I feel some sense of -- hmm, I'll put a name to it -- entitlement to be best possible treatment from people trying to sell me books, like the guy who comes in every single Friday to "his" Italian restaurant feels that the head waiter should know his name, have his table ready, and be appropriately apologetic if the kitchen can't do "the usual" today.

Instead of having my table waiting for me, I have been told -- in as many words, literally, by authors who were on my reading list writing to my very own mailbox -- that I am thieving riffraff who should not even be let into this restaurant.

(I mentioned on my blog that if it came to a fight between Amazon, who makes my reading experience awesome, and publishers, who do not make my reading experience awesome, I would back Amazon. That apparently got passed around a group of authors -- oh, ho, Internet. Several of them backed publishers over me. That is the road less traveled in high-end customer service but, hey, whatever. One called me a thief who was stealing her livelihood. I will never read another book of hers. Even recalling this makes me freaking livid.)

Amazon delivers on making me feel special: they have for the last decade always gotten me the books I wanted, when I wanted them, and then after long since cinching my Favorite Company Ever position they released the Kindle. Amazon knows that Jim Butcher has a book coming out this month and that I will want it. Neither Jim Butcher nor his publisher know my name nor care to send me an email saying "Hey Patrick, thanks for reading my last seventeen novels. I have another one coming out this month which you'll want to take a look at." (I understand there are excellent business model reasons why Jim Butcher and his publisher don't know my name. I just, frankly, do not care what their problems are.)
Honest question: are you an American? Have you seen the stereotypical "attack ads" that show up before every election? Do you know who Karl Rove is?

If not, I can see why you wouldn't get it, and the ad isn't targeted at you.
While "Good Calories, Bad Calories" (great book, hate the title) is generally known for being a "low-carb book", actually the bulk of the book is an in-depth examination of exactly how we got to the point where "low-fat diet = good" is not just a dominant hypothesis but borderline religion. If you are truly interested in an answer to that question, this is it in book form.

The short answer is, indeed, politics, but I actually blame scientific politics rather than traditional government politics. The latter enabled the former to really spread its influence, but had the strongest personalities in the dietary movement agreed that fat is harmless, the government would never have ended up rubber-stamping the low-fat dietary dogma. The longer answer is, as sliverstorm said, the look-under-the-lamppost problem; we got a couple of cheap measurement tools early and then extrapolated the hell out of the small, small, oh-so-small view of the complex system we had.

Incidentally, we do that all the time and continue to do that. Almost every article I see online about how X is bad for you or how Y is good for kids can be traced back to a study that boils down to a point sample in the n-dimensional space of like; such things are often only marginally better than nothing, all of our best scientific controls notwithstanding. The next great revolution in science as a whole is going to have to be figuring out some way to get a holistic view of more things, we're drowning in data points that often add up to nothing.
Actually yes, because of JavaScript/CoffeeScript's habit of pushing declarations up before evaluation, you can more or less lay out your code in any order. We take advantage of this in the Lexer, here...

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs...

...to stash all of the regex matchers down at the bottom of the file, even though the functions that make use of them come first.
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Why would bodybuilders know more about health and fitness than triathletes, tennis players, or powerlifters? They read a lot of sciencey-sounding material, but are they savvier consumers of information than the average dieter? The faddishness of bodybuilding routines and bodybuilding nutrition doesn't build much confidence, and the nature of bodybuilding competition doesn't test whether a body has any functional capacity. I'm not saying bodybuilders aren't fit, just that their hobby doesn't demonstrate their fitness the way a triathlon demonstrates that a triathlete has good endurance and cardiovascular capacity, or squatting a heavy weight demonstrates that a powerlifter is strong.

In general, my good sense rebels at the notion of connecting bodybuilding with health. Bodybuilding is the game of hacking one particular, and particularly superficial, way of judging health and fitness. That's fine and good -- anything that gives people fun and satisfaction is great -- but there are many other ways of judging health and fitness that seem prima facie far superior to an obsession with body fat and muscularity. And there are many people busy hacking those superior measures: triathletes, powerlifters, soccer players, boxers, wrestlers, tennis players, and so forth. You have to assume that nutritional knowledge in those sports is pretty far behind bodybuilding before you would assume that an ideal powerlifter's diet is as healthy as an ideal tennis player's diet.
Body builders (specifically that forum) have some good and some bad information. The problem I've noticed over the past year or so is with the amount of people answering questions based on "what they heard", not what has been proven or tested. Cliches aside, it's a giant case of citation needed. I find it mind-boggling how many "body builders" make claims to the effect of, "nutritionists don't know what we need, they're not the ones in the gym and they don't have testimonials." Yes, serious athletes (including body builders) have specific requirements, but basing your logic on individual testimonials instead of thorough trials is a bit presumptuous.
I think we're interpreting this wrongly - this sounds like a piece of satire about consumerism and how marketing companies see their job and consumers. "Marketing trumps product quality, consumers operate solely on impulse, are insecure and clueless and don't care about price. It's Marketing's job to tell consumers what they need, without us they are lost!"
[Meta: Sigh, I have indeed become that "grumpy old man".]

I don't know. Assuming you went through the normal college course straight out of high school I'm ~12 years younger than you but I've been coming around to the same conclusions. Personally I think between the internet and some other things it's just that we're getting the data now that says that we need to tune our trust of science down a bit. I still think it's the best way of learning there is, it just isn't as powerful in practice as we'd like.

I remember thinking in the 1990s that as I read about the history of various sciences, the only fields where the dominant consensus didn't spend long periods of time being dead wrong were fields too young to have a dominant consensus. (Perhaps not in those words at the time, but along those lines.) I recall seeing the casual assumption that all that stuff was in the past, and wondered what major sciences were actively wrong. It turns out that in fact they weren't all exactly right and indeed I think that some entire major fields were wrong at the time.

(Bringing up the interesting question of who is wrong today? Back then I could mouth the words but hadn't really internalized the idea, but now I seriously wonder, who is wrong today in a way that I don't even suspect? The odds of it being "nobody" are basically zero.)
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The word you are looking for is "rationality." It is indeed a completely separate quality from intelligence.
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Thats not so bad, in my opinion.
Interestingly enough, Jolie didn't approve my comment on her blog that suggested she might be out of the loop.