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> Ask yourself if your doubts are based on hearsay of hearsay. Unless you are a nuclear chemist or physicist who has tried experimentally to produce low energy nuclear reactions without success

And what if my doubts are based on my fathers work, who did actually try to reproduce this experimentally? And published the failure in Fusion Technology? And I went to the lab and saw the equipment too.

Basically the problem with the experiments is that no one does the calorimetry correctly. And especially that people do not calculate the Faraday Efficiency of the electrolysis, and so show excess heat when there is none.
No themes but the widgets and effects are there.
I love this post! I'll probably make a hard copy and put it over my desk. Why? Not any particular reason, just for fun.

Thanks to OP for not saying something like, "Productivity Improvement Methods". These are just random things famous people did that worked for them, with or without any good reason.

I remember standing in the rooms where Victor Hugo (Paris) and Ernest Hemingway (Key West) did much of their work. I just took in the vibe, hoping it might improve my own work. Still not sure it did.
Greplin looks like an interesting possibility. Some of the others have potential. But, yes, I think you've got the general sentiment.
I've been working in Go a little and I'm pretty happy with it. I feel like it's smaller and simpler than C++, and garbage collection is a godsend.
Wait, a company selling/leasing office space writes an article about how people shouldn't work from home?

Yawn.
Ask HN: Raise your hand if you're tilting your external Display
Hi everybody, I'm thinking about buying a laptop plus docking station so I can easily connect to a second display. I'm used to working on a System with at least one added extra-Display.

As smaller my Latops got from purchase to pruchase, I've noticed how different display heights as well as resolutions can irritate me somehow when moving my cursor from one screen to another.

For example: a small laptops display-top usually rises up to the half of my added Monitor while the laptops display-bottom is below that of the monitor. So configuring windows graphical output helps - but not enough.

So what about positioning the extra monitor ABOVE the one of your Laptop? Maybe even having the external monitor flipped on the edge, resulting in an eased difference on the passage between laptop and external display?

Is there anyone here who had experiences with this?
Nit: I've never come across the idea that Claudius didn't react to the play in Hamlet. He jumps up and freaks out a bit (something staged with varying degrees of subtlety, but not really ambiguously), then later sends Hamlet overseas to get beheaded.

I always viewed Hamlet as a staircase-like figure going quite definitely down. The king's not merely dead, he's a tormented ghost. Hamlet must kill his uncle, but he's stymied the first time he tries. Hamlet outmaneuvers Claudius, but in the process kills Polonious, drives Ophelia mad and to suicide, which turns her brother into a deadly enemy...and then damn near everyone dies at the end.

I'm trying to wrap my mind around the idea that any of this is ambivalent. :)
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Yeah, me-too products are never really interesting. I mean, does the world really need another search engine? There's already Lycos and Altavista.

Calling an internet startup's idea "me-too" is a pretty lame criticism. Most of the most successful startups had "me-too" ideas on paper. The proof is in the eating.
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There isn't one. You learn on the job.
yes they are (well, for 1.7.2 anyway):

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/#THEMENAME#/jquery-ui.css
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The only time I'd bust out C is when there's no Python API (meaning there's probably no Perl API either). I generally avoid shell scripting these days as I find text processing a fragile way to build something useful.
im of the mind that programming resides in the logic field, and not mathematics. i am a decent dev with practically no formal math background, and I get around pretty well.
It's an informal style of another era. That's one of the harder things to read if you're unfamiliar with the style.
They're not really "Just X, only for Y" - that's just the fastest and simplest way to explain what they're doing.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XMeetsY
That's some lazy vigor -- they fix the software exploits after they're published. Sure it's nice to be able to root your own phone, but it'd be pretty obnoxious if other people could root my phone!

It's entirely about "controlling the user experience" as you say. They don't really mind the jailbreakers all that much (it provides an outlet for the fiddlers) as long as it doesn't become mainstream.

The way they see it, the problem with allowing people to install packages from elsewhere is that unsophisticated users would use it; fuck themselves; and blame Apple. They don't want the platform to grow out of their control -- Jobs would have a heart attack if it became perfectly normal to install customizations, themes, haxies, etc. There's nothing inherent about the platform that would restrain any of that, the gate at the App Store does it all.

They want to keep it so that every iPhone works and behaves like an iPhone. In their opinion, you should go to another vendor if you want a different user experience, much less a self-created one.
arguably Android 2.x is the first real good "open" alternative -- even though it's not nearly as open as people like to think

I'm not sure what you mean by that. My Nexus One is rooted, unlocked, and runs any software I tell it to, including custom ROMs based off of the Android open source code. Yes some carriers lock down their Android phones, but that doesn't make Android itself not open any more than TiVo makes Linux not open.
Anyone knows the current state of discussion regarding generics and exceptions ?

Not that i really care about exceptions, but after toying with the language a bit, i thought generics would be nice.

Probably not qualified enough to judge tho.
For every person using Google Docs, there are another 10 or 100 who haven't heard of it, don't understand it or think it is too hard.

Don't give up in the face of competition. It just validates the marketplace.

For instance - Dropbox went up against many other cloud storage systems and is winning.
themes are definitely up.

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.0/themes/base/jquery-ui.css

this will get you the base theme. just replace base with any of the other theme names.

so for vader:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.0/themes/vader/jquery-ui.css

basically:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.0/themes/#THEMENAME#/jquery-ui.css
I like the lack of human interaction. After working from home for a while, I found myself going regularly to hobbies in the evening to get human interaction. I much prefer this way.
The problem with Chrome's translate feature is that it keeps claiming that random pages are in some language that they aren't in, like Afrikaans, and offering to "translate" them. It's a bit annoying.
I wouldn't aim for a traditional office job with that kind of money, but I'd want to be doing something. He could go to graduate school, write a novel, start (or at least join) a non-profit.

With a trust fund that can support him indefinitely, he certainly has nothing to lose in taking a job. If it turns out to be a hideous waste of time, he can quit.

One of the intractable unfairnesses of the work world is that those who need or rely on their jobs are destined (all else being equal) to be less successful in their careers, because they can be trapped into a dead-end and because they do have a reason to fear the boss. Your friend, on the other hand, didn't have that problem. He can take a job and, if it turns out to be a waste of his time, quit^ and do something else.

(^ I am not, of course, suggesting that he ought to quit just because a job gets difficult. What I'm saying is that the biggest danger of the career minefield is stagnation and unrecognized toil, in which case one really is wasting one's time in going to work, and your friend had an inexhaustible "get out of jail free" card.)
I'd like to think that there isn't much overlap between hackers and pimps.

Although this seems to be more akin to one of those "hot caddy" services than a sex-chat line.
Well this post certainly needs a counterpoint. I don't think your generalization should be the dominant stamp on the latest batch. A percentage are really interesting, and unless you compare this to past groups how can you say this is a weak showing? Yes, some are twitter widgets but they're not bad for twitter apps. I can already think of a number of customers for 500 friends. Broad-brushed pessimism is the wrong frame when a number have obvious potential and we have no idea what pivots lie ahead for the others based on an elevator pitch. Let's judge Ycom by it's long-term record.
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Why do investors need to be accredited at all? If I, someone with savings and income far below those thresholds, want to invest a large portion of my net worth into a startup I really believe in, why should the government stop me? It's so risky that it's a horrible idea, but don't I have a right to be stupid?
Hey this is Alex from LaunchHear. We just finished our presentation fifteen minutes ago and we're hanging around outside the YC building now. I just wanted to say that a lot of these startups are actually really impressive, it's probably just not obvious from the three sentence descriptions.

Also, a bunch of these startups are still under embargo so they aren't even being written about. Give it a year or so and then start complaining.
Crocodoc looks like a solution for a serious painpoint of mine.
Somolian Pirates will continue piracy until they are wealthy enough to lift the country out of poverty. Their waters are no good thanks to multinational dumping and overfishing, their land isn't arable, and their infrastructure is nil. So, this really is the only option. It is either death at Sea or a very precarious existence at home. They have every incentive to keep taxing the waters until there is an equilibrium of military cost to deploy enough ships and men to stop them vs. piracy ransom costs. It will be a long time (it costs many millions of dollars to deploy standing warships) before this equilibrium is reached.
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In the real world, you can find jobs that allow you to work when you are most productive. Some professions require rising early - subway stations in my area open between 5 and 6am, for example, and presumably the people who work there don't drop their kids off at school on the way to work.

Other professions which are not customer-facing may not depend on starting at a particular time at all, but simply ensuring that projects are completed by a certain date. Like a lot of HNers, I am more productive in the afternoon and evening hours than I am in the morning, not to mention more pleasant to be around.

Still other professions require people to work late when most people would rather be relaxing. Bartending springs to mind, as do many others.

There's no law of nature or man that says all work must begin at 9 and end at 6. In fact, staggering arrival times and the like might reduce traffic and transit bottlenecks and lead to an increase in overall productivity.

I fully understand that some people are early risers and get the most work done by turning up very early and zipping through stuff before the phones start ringing. Good on them! I see no reason why late risers should not enjoy the same freedom to maximize their productivity.
I wonder what Google is planning to do with this? What do they plan to offer with Go that is not already available with other languages? Does it have any connection to their recent admission that they might never be able to make python as fast as C or fix some of it's limitations? Maybe they are a trying to do with Go what they did with Chrome (for browsers). They certainly have the engineering the programing muscle to make it happen.

I have too many questions. :)
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. No offense taken at all. I have perhaps 4-5 times seen an assay or drug delivery method that could really be considered novel (though I clearly lack a legal understanding of 'novel' which I readily concede).

Your reply makes me hopeful that this decision will have a greater impact than I had hoped.
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I think you're supposed to pretend there's some subtle & insightful comment that he couldn't just say, eg "people like happy endings".
+1 for XTree Gold, I was stoked when I got my hands on that.

Stacker was magic too.
I'd rewrite the title as "Time since Opera officially submitted to Apple". Well. OK. Not really. But still, it's quite strange to see such an announcement not sayng "hey, we have a new product, try it!", but "we sent a plea, now waiting for the answer" (when it will come? will it come at all?). Quite ugly.

Might be just a theater by both Opera and Apple. Of course.
I think it's high time for men everywhere to join forces and rebel. Stop looking and talking to women period, so that women can't say: "Pay me to be seen with you". Turn this around so that the women, frustrated that they can't get even the most defective of males to pay attention to them, let alone any dates, thus they have to resort to paying men for companionship and dating in order to fulfill the genetic proliferation directive.

I suppose they tried this in Islam, but somehow that doesn't seem to be an improvement.
Exactly. Group 2+ is also the most valuable to the world in the long run, if only because people's mental health will be much better.

I also wouldn't be surprised if the members of Group 2+ generally hate the control that the typical manager exerts.
You can, but we'd really like to talk with you to understand more about what you're trying to do (if it's a valid use case for you, it probably is for others, and we want to make sure we get it).

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Yeah, I cut and repasted that last bit a couple times before posting, but ultimately decided the point would be too easily missed without it. In the process I didn't catch the now-obvious implication that I should have found a better way to make that point.

I appreciate you calling me on it.
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and
Expert C Programming:Deep C Secrets by Peter van der Linden

Because the best way to understand a language (and its ups and downs) is from someone who understands that language's compiler.
This is the type of article that really gets my adrenaline pumping. I find it so frustrating to read about these types of things, although the frustration for me is in the fact that people take one person and vastly over generalize to an entire class of people.

Yes, there are "Certified DBA's" who are morons. Guess what, there are System Admins that are morons, Programmers that are morons, Pilots that are morons, Doctors that are morons, etc, etc.

If his main takeaway from that situation was that "Certified DBA's" are morons and that system tuning is little more than hand waving and hot air, he failed to learn the real lesson.

The real lesson imo, is that in every field you have people that are morons, and you don't know if the person you are dealing with is a moron based on their credentials. You only know if someone is smart and gets things done through actual experience.

For what it's worth, performance recommendations of this sort are the easiest to expose because of the availability of quantitative performance measures.
That's not a browser, just VNC to an Xvnc session with a minimal window manager and a maximized Firefox.

Also kind of unusual to advertise that your app is approved, before launching the service or releasing the app for sale.
if it helps, farmville was a near duplicate rip-off of farm town, and it's now one of the most successful facebook apps. you don't always need to have 100% unique ideas. zynga spent more money advertising, and is now profitable with something like 100+ million players.
Thanks for the link. I'm pretty sure I have this.
It could be something worth of study, but, unless there is Helium or neutrons, it's not cold fusion.

The Hagelstein explanation seems interesting, but, again, unless we see some nuclear fusion, those guys are studying something completely different. Not to say uninteresting, but not what we could call nuclear fusion.
In San Francisco Unified there isn't a high school bus system, and the classes still start at 7:30 AM. It has more to do with hidebound teachers and admins.
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I thought the justification was obvious - you don't want to build a relationship with a partner who will drop out for personal reasons.
Because of scams. Of course you are going to say that you should have the right to fall for scams if you want to, but some scams become so prevalent they actually have an effect on the economy, or can crash the stockmarket.

I also have to say that the accredited investor rules do not exactly prohibit you from investing in startups. Or from owning stock. They are part of a complex securities regulation framework and it is difficult to explain in a quick message board post exactly where they fit in.
I wonder what the poor guy had to work with...
The ones I though were good:

Zencoder
Zenedy

The rest are very under promising.
Hogwash. Unsophisticated users installing third party packages and "fucking themselves" doesn't seem to be a big problem in OSX. Nor does it seem to be a big problem for Symbian, WinMob, BB, Android, etc.

Allowing Opera, as an example, to be installed on an iPhone isn't going to stop it from working and behaving like an iPhone. It'll just be an iPhone with 1 additional application installed on it. Hardly world changing.
Unemployed, a grad student rethinks the world of work
As a joke: http://www.player2rentals.com/
#90 911 Gifts - ouch...wonder if these guys got killed by 9/11 or if they crashed before that
Yes, and long before the Senate's end of the year version, around which all the current action is based.

Which is not to say that a lot of what's here didn't carry on to that, or whatever might come out of reconciliation.
I'm of the opposite opinion. I have the freedom to choose who I work with, who I buy products from, and who I sell my products to. There is a lot of room in the world to do business with people who are considerate, responsible, and of a mindset that I think makes the world a better place.

I've refused to create accounts for other types of individuals on more than one occasion. If they want to use a competing product, that's okay with me. I don't mind losing business from customers I don't appreciate. If someone is a nasty person I don't want them to benefit from the use of my product. Check out some of the firing bad clients threads. Best just not to do business with them in the first place.

It's my little way to shape my world and surround myself with people I appreciate -- that's more important to me than money.
Anecdotally, I had an hour and a half bus ride to school back in the day. We were picked up at 5:45 (school started at 7:30). For much of the school year, it was pitch dark out waiting for the bus.

If I wanted to be presentable and eat breakfast, I had to wake up at 4:45.
I think Card Pool could make some money, but it also got me thinking about the retailers. Don't many of them operate on thin margins? If they offered card holders 90% cash back on the card amount, they might actually make more money from partial reimbursements than they would from the merchandise sales.
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You don't need to be downvoted, but my experience so far completely contradicts what you're saying (with around 50 active clients at the moment, including some businesses, and currently accruing one new client a week for the last 6 weeks).

Outlook is pretty much the de facto mail client amongst my clients, even those that aren't in business environments. My largest business client is email-program-agnostic, and still the vast majority of users are asking for Outlook.

Among webmail users, most usage is either Comcast's site, Yahoo's (a result of the SBC partnership), or their internet service provider's.

Actually, I think this might help put it in perspective: more of my clients have email addresses at their own domain versus having Gmail accounts.
Understood. Just as entrepreneurship, you learn by doing. But it doesnt hurt to pick up a book or two on the way.
I have a 24" hooked up to my 15" MBP. The Monitor is up and to the right of the laptop. It does not bother me to have different height monitors because my workflow is such that I use keyboard shortcuts to move windows to the other monitor.(sizeup and cinch are the best apps that I have purchased) If you have/are getting a mac look into sizeup and then map the keys according to this scheme:
http://zacharypinter.com/2009/06/15/keyboard-driven-window-m...

with one addition from me: ctrl+option+command+k should center the window in the screen. This is useful for making the window the left half of the screen with ctrl+command+j and then centering the smaller window. (sometimes pages are too hard to read on a large monitor but you don't want to have the window off to the side.)

Edit: I personally would not like positioning the monitor above the laptop because I use the 24" much more than the 15" and always looking up would be extremely bad for ergonomics.
Your questions seem to err on the side of researchers not doing good research. Why is that?

My assumption when reading a study is that it is well designed. I trust in the scientific establishment vs random people on the internet, but are fine to be proven wrong when I read the methodolgy.

Even a cursory look at the wikipedia page or some of the meta analyses will tell you the information you are after. I found it within a few minutes of searching. But instead of looking you make assumptions and jump to conclusions based on your own biases. How is that helpful to anyone? What are you adding to the conversation by promoting your own biases?

Remember, the null hypothesis apriori false in nearly all research.
Cool.

So the question (for me) of size/speed comes down to: is it faster/better to build my own jQuery UI js file with selected components or to use the full file from Google's CDN?

The former option has the benefit of being smaller, while the latter has the benefit of being hosted by Google's fast servers and there's a decent probability the client already has it cached.
Oh my, you couldn't be more correct.

I've got one more to add: people going in and out and in and out for their smokes. Plus the smell they bring in. Quit already!
Fuck software patents.
I'm a little different - I'm fairly certain I have a non-24-hour circadian clock. If I do not force myself, via scheduled melatonin supplements and caffeine/B-vitamin supplements, I naturally land on about a 26 hour circadian clock.

It gets really annoying really quickly.

Tangentially. I wonder at the reason for the increase of DSPS during adolescence among boys. It might very well be evolutionary - the young had to stay up later for watching over camps/habitat at night, perhaps?
this is default profile on almost any mainstream linux distro these days anyway
It's very similar to something Feynman said when he found he won the Nobel Prize. I can't find the quote specifically, but he essentially said "is there any way to turn it down?" But he recognized that he couldn't and it was easier to just accept it. But he bemoaned that forever afterwards he was no longer Richard Feynman, he was Richard Feynman Nobel Prize winner. That is all from his book "What do you care what other people think?"