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Ten Amazing Infographic Sources and Two Years of BuySellAds
One of the most important (and friendly) resources for the onlinel design community – BuySellAds – is turning two and they released a sleek infographic for the anniversary! We’re also celebrating them by compiling a new roundup with the most important sources for the infographic obsessed. Bon Apetit! And while you’re here check out the rest of our Trend Hunting series.
Looks very much like the original concept for The Ship.
NASA Overspends on Bagels, Soda at Conferences
Jamie Dimon: Ban “meetings after meetings”
I've installed/used a few Wiki's before and authorisation on a tree has been possible, hadn't really thought of a wiki for document management (ECM).

Have you used a system like this?
well, you might assume that once you get past some number (less, i would think, than 100) you can automate the process sufficiently to make each one distinct (if we are talking about "watermark" changes and not labour-intensive things like translations).
It looks to me as though they're opening the doors to extend Scheme beyond RxRS specifications. Or am I misreading their press release?
Seems rational - with enough records per page fetching 2% of the records might mean fetching >90% of the pages, which of course doesn't really improve over full scan.
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Consulting: If you're not part of the solution, there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

or something like that.
Low emission area created around US and Canadian coastlines
I have found this website http://listentotaxman.com/index.php which calculates taxes. Thanks
Your app looks very cool. I'd buy it. One minor thing that you've probably already noticed: Make sure that the draggable edge of the apps are big enough to move with a finger (as opposed to the mouse in the simulator).

I'd put it out right away and improve incrementally.
That's interesting. Thanks
You can get social experience with students older than yourself. Keeping the child among age peers, but not conversational peers, or intellectual peers may be precisely the reason they are not more social. Like I said, I was always more social with older kids, so putting me with older kids would have improved my social abilities.

I say we should be pragmatic and stop creating generalized rules for these students. It's the general rule is hurting some kids. Let the child go to college. If he can't hack it, kick him out just like you'd kick out any other college kid who can't make the grades, cheating, or breaking school other rules.

I never could relate to kids my own age who didn't understand the world the way I did. They thought I was stupid. I thought they were stupid. The older kids knew I was smart and I thought they were smart and it was awesome to be around them.

As soon as we get out of school, the age association ends. When I started working, I immediately progressed to positions well above the level where other people much older were working for years. I was admired, not hated. I appreciated it and people thanked me for helping them understand their own jobs better.

I hate saying all this because it sounds conceited, but I think it is important for society that we allow the best and brightest to have a positive impact on the world as soon as they can and for as long as possible. People don't live forever, let them get the most out of life that they can and let society reap the rewards of their productivity. As we move forward, it's taking longer and longer to understand the world enough to make a positive contribution and we need to give these prodigies as long as they need to do it.
It's different. Just because a 13 year old succeeds academically does not mean he has the skills to handle himself outside of a protected environment.

The world will not care what his IQ is and will not treat him as special. He's a liability in South Africa, full stop. It would take a lot of money and/or risk to send him, so I support their choice.
The upside of this is that their customers are used to paying those rates. If you are self-employed or work for a small consultancy you can undercut them and still make a bag of money.
This could be very big. There's a MetroPCS outlet in my area and that place always has people in it buying phones or paying for service. An Android phone like this would shake things up.
I look for inspiration from the world around me and focus on trying to always find the simplest solution with the least resistance.
5 steps to identifying your niche
It appears that Regulation D is a band aid on a shotgun wound. If I can gamble away my wealth on public stocks, or better yet at a casino, I can certainly back my friend who's building a startup.

The act of getting capital from folks that are under the bar shouldn't damn a startup, there's something wrong with this whole process. We shouldn't stop at just nixing the Dodd bill, we should fix the process of angel investing and pooling resources to back those we trust, even if we don't have net worths over an arbitrary line.

Could a group of people who have net worths under the qualified investor line, pool resources and be considered over the line?
Why banking technology sucks
Open source is not driven by crowd sourcing or collective effort, it's driven by a small number of heroes willing to devote time in order to benefit everyone else.

I agree completely.

It is worth noting that this is true of mast crowd sourced projects though. A small cadre of devotees put in heroic effort and then a larger group contributes now and then, and everyone else either contributes nothing or some money.
which country's interests does Wikileaks represent?
IOW, if you're not doing anything wrong, you can't have anything to hide? :-)
More Google TV Details Emerge
For me it is altruism
Also with link to more detailed analysis from VideoNuze - http://www.videonuze.com/blogs/?2010-03-24/Here-s-How-Google...
A more scientific assessment of a a few different types of fruits is here: http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
As you ascend the ranks of consulting and get to the top 3 shops (McK, BCG, Bain) it drops down to 1/20th to 1/30th. That is once you take into account the disparity between number of hours billed and the number actually spent doing the work.
Short answer: I don't think so.

Longer answer:
Business plans are valuable instruments. Their size and their form can differ - it is a difference to launch a web service or a biotect company. The first you can start with little money and your personal time - little plan, maybe only a few ideas on a napkin. The latter needs tremendous amount of money, maybe billions - big plan, over 100 pages.
IMO a business plan is a strategy instrument, that like any other strategy has to be adjusted the whole time. Maybe it is better to not write a business plan, but to develop a business plan - like you do with your software!
that's why whistleblowers are protected in democratic countries and why we need Wikileaks
More of a reverse turing test, but I really like the concept.
The evidence for “job lock” is strong. One example: Americans’ likelihood of self-employment jumps when they turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare

It's much more likely that people over 65 have started receiving their Social Security/401k benefits and have another source of income which minimizes the risk.

I'm not sure why people think insurance is going to be more affordable now. There are aren't any real price controls in the Health Care bill. Exchanges may lower the price but if Massachusetts is any guide premiums are going to increase.

There seems to be this belief that the government is going to mail you an insurance card if you don't already have coverage.
I think a lot of people are going to be shocked once they find out what the government has signed them up for.
Choose a cheaper place on the commuter belt and your income will go a longer way. For instance Woking is 30 mins to London by train, but is a lot cheaper than London. You can get a flat for around about £700 pcm bills and council tax included and without sharing with someone else. This will leave you with a grand to play with, which is not bad.
From Designing for Women to Reducing the Noise through MI
Because I'm a rebel.
3 Effective Steps on How to Reverse Diabetes Naturally
I would have preferred PLT Parrot, but Racket will do.
> Shapado faces 6+ months of work before it can have quality of SO.

Gotta love random estimates by people who never looked at the code or anything.
Internal IT people would be able to "cheat" by talking to actual users and stakeholders, doing stealth requirements gathering, examining the current system and how it's used, doing rogue user testing, etc. Basically doing all the things that everyone agrees are required for success on this kind of project, but which in the real world end up being dropped or neutered by bureaucracy. E.g., your "expert user" is the manager of the users and doesn't know anything about how they do their jobs, and you aren't allowed to talk to the actual users. An internal person would be more likely to have the personal contacts and trust required to work around crap like that.
The story:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/26/2010-03-26_city_p...
Use Poyla's methods of problem solving described in his book: How to Solve It (http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0691023565)

He deals specifically with mathematical problems, but the same ideas apply to computer science.

For an outline of the method see this Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
I developed a small HTML5 app a couple of weeks ago, optimized for the iPhone (in Dutch): http://c.phanatics.nl/

It converts between track and field performances and awarded points by the Dutch athletics competition. The conversions can be stored. Intended usage is on the field during competition day, or just for the curious.

Source: http://svn.vermaat.name/competitie-rekending/

Originally I also used a manifest file for caching, but decided I didn't need it (and Firefox popups warnings with it). (The manifest is still used in SVN rev 20.)

The biggest problem I encountered on the iPhone (and have not been able to solve) is that whenever you switch apps and return, Mobile Safari reloads the page (online, or from cache) and does so using the original url. There seems to be no way to stop this.

For me that meant that stored conversions where lost (they were stored in the DOM and url), so I had to store them explicitely using localStorage. And still then, it is annoying you have to wait a few seconds for the page to reload before you can do anything.

The only info I found on this problem suggested that it might be related to Mobile Safari's memory management and as such wouldn't occur (as often) on iPhones with more memory than the one I tested with.
Use Levenshtein distance - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
Dragon Book author Al Aho on Teaching Compiler Construction
Most young well educated people in China read and write at least some English.
if nuclear launch codes are compromised and leaked, then public needs to know that their government can't keep nuclear secrets safe. hopefully said government at least has procedures for mitigation of said leak (nuclear weapons and associated facilities are sufficiently secured physically)
That's just a fact of life on the Internet. If I had half the funds I've been accused of taking for various opinions I've come to on my own, I wouldn't need a real job.
execution, bro! chris hecker isn't nobody.
Any testimonials from anyone who's played around with it?
Not so much over high latency trans-atlantic connections with low bandwidth, which is something that works perfectly fine with a terminal based editor.
This is a great post and I'm glad to see someone do such a nice description of "doing it from scratch", but I thought I'd mention that Dashcode (part of the free developer tools for OSX - http://www.apple.com/macosx/developers/#dashcode ) has built-in support for developing iPhone Web Apps and includes some templates for the more common types.

It's a cool way to get an app up-and-running quickly without having to consider the App Store process and while it does abstract you a bit from the straight coding, it's all still done with HTML, CSS and Javascript so if you're already a web developer and not interested in learning Objective-C it's a nice tool to build something quickly.

I've developed several "native" iPhone apps but went this way for one project because we could do everything they wanted to do in a web app and it was simply faster to get there than if we did a native app.

Definitely one of the most overlooked options out there.
Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects charge for support/features/bugs?
I see a lot of open source hackers getting jaded by the vampire-like community using their libraries for free and then complaining like a customer. I know that some libraries have a donation button, but most people won't donate. I feel like if these open-source developers would charge for priority support, or put "bounties" on feature requests and bugs, it would become more financially viable for them to work on their open-source projects.
I think that that sentence desperately needed an "on" after the "or".

"Pwn2Own didn't offer prizes for anyone beating up on other popular Web browsers such as Opera or [for beating up on] the Linux operating system" is how I parse it.
Ah, then that explains the name change for me.
Ask HN: We're still developing - A competitor has launched - what to do?
We are still working on our product while a competitor product has launched and is getting traction from some top retailers already (we are in the retail ecommerce space). They do not have all the pieces we have so our platform is far better and we're mid way in development so we can't really cut scope now.<p>What do we do? Start selling with "product coming" promises? The product is in the large company space so the selling process takes a few months, so getting a headstart may not be a bad idea.<p>Thoughts?
It completely depends on what probability distribution you assume for the range. If it's a normal distribution with a high confidence interval from 25g to 90g, taking the average is reasonable. For the age of the Earth example, clearly the distribution is a bit more binary.

Maybe we're getting "hung up on the trivial minutia of an exact gram amount", though.
Considering the small number of players in this market (zoomwebvideo.com, wistia.com, jitrinc.com, tikilive.org, veevu.com, etc.), you might actually find a market for this service. The competition is quite varied in focus (example: JITR likes subject matter experts, Wistia likes enterprises), so finding a niche in there and doing it great is, IMHO, worth doing.
Yeah.. he's the Steve Jobs of film. No doubt about it.
It's not a question of whether or not age discrimination is going on (as the title seems to suggest), the question is whether or not the discrimination is legally justified. The courts will decide that at no small expense to the family and the university. There is plenty of legal discrimination regarding minors designed to protect them. You don't really have same rights as other adults in the US until you turn 18 or (even 21).

In my opinion, the university should allow him to go with the provision that he is chaperoned by a legal guardian.
Amazing Space Photos Taken With a Balloon and Compact Camera
30-40 minutes? What kind of passengers have you been travelling next to? I travel exclusively with carry-ons--I haven't checked baggage in over 5 years--and it has never taken me more than 90 seconds total to get one carry-on into the overhead compartment, stuff my backpack under the seat in front of me, and sit down.
SO has being in development for more than 1 year, during that time the UI has being under constant refinement. Lets see where Shapado is in 6 months, my guess is exactly where it is now ( GUI wise ).
why not rename 'PLT' too?

'Higher-Order Internet Technology', 'HIT Racket'.

Not sure if names like Scheme, Racket and Swindle attract the right people...
The resulting chemical structure, after digestion, is the same, but with different amounts of each chemical. Sucrose is a 50/50 mix of fructose to glucose. HFCS has a customized ratio, 55/45, 42/58, or 90/10.
I think the point was that the Atkins diet allows for far less fruit consumption than the Japanese have on average, so grouping the two diets together as "effectively fructose-free" is incorrect.
I'm well aware of this. I do not believe the propaganda is aimed at them.

Violent revolution is not going to come from that demographic. What the government is worried about is the less-educated, general population having unfiltered access to certain 'unpleasant' pieces of information. The gov't is concerned about uprisings like what has been going on in Xinjiang. It is not concerned so much about some Chinese ibanker learning that a bunch of people died in Tiananmen Square in 89. The ibanker already knows that.
I guess what I am calling for are business plans that are that cheap (or nearly so), and just as flammable.

My point is, you did the exercise of trying to figure out your market size. The fact that you were (ludicrously) wrong doesn't mean that it wasn't an exercise worth doing.

You obviously thought the project was worth continuiung, despite the (assumed) size of the market, and the same conclusion could have been drawn just as easily if the analysis had been on paper, instead of a blog post.

Come to think of it, "business plans via a series of blog posts" isn't a terribly bad way to go at it, all in all. It's certainly worked well for you.
Forget the normals, attract the passionates
So what assessment is made to ensure that any given 18,19,20+ year old " has the skills to handle himself outside of a protected environment"?

That's right, none, but the arbitrary assumption that they are "old enough".

It's just as arbitrary assuming THIS 13-year old is "not capable".
You are. They already have a dialect of Scheme that contains many extensions beyond the RxRS specs, this is just giving it a name so that people stop confusing "PLT's dialect of Scheme" with "Scheme in general".

Personally, I'm not a big fan of the name "Racket", because it makes me think of tennis rather than racketeering. However, I do support the idea of having a PLT "brand" rather than a hodgepodge of names like DrScheme, MrEd and mzscheme.
As somebody who has lived in both countries, I don't think this argument holds any water. While the U.S. government does indeed engage in propaganda, it's like comparing a candle to a forest fire.

The Chinese government controls every news organization in China. Every single one. All television is state-run, and shows hours of pure propaganda every day, as well as entertainment programs that push certain agendas. Every book published requires government approval, and many are written for the sole purpose of propaganda. Opposition stances are strictly prohibited, across the board. Virtually every street on every town has large red banners and posters pushing the 'message of the day'.

This digital form of propaganda is no different. Yes, the United States engages in abuses. However, they're not even close in scale, and therefore qualitatively quite different.

Oh, and if anyone wants to see what this digital astroturfing looks like in the wild, I had some of it show up on my personal blog a while back:

http://www.varvel.net/david/?p=9#comment-19
Oh, please. This is just good marketing, and the natural result of releasing something not only in n languages but also in k formats. Turns out n by k versions is a lot, and it's easy to make n by k versions of a film when the film is already digital.
David Mamet's rules of drama
His mother offered to chaperon him at her own expense. That SHOULD have been the end of this story.
They are public companies. That is kind of the point. Very few companies can achieve that kind of scale and remain private. They are of course not the only companies that make acquisitions - compare ones with most cash and acquisition kings - but they provide a good barometer. The companies that have less cash are also less likely to make acquisitions of more than $100 million which still means it is hard for VCs to get the fund making exits they need.
But, I did find this part entertaining in the beginning "imagine how much worse it would be if the US government employed a couple hundred thousand people to "shape the debate" among online political forums. Crazy, right? What government would ever attempt it?"

Political parties do this. ("Talking points") Even industry consortiums get into the act. How is this worse than distributing talking points and having your local lackeys span talk radio call-in shows? It's not. It's all horrible dreck.
High-tech copy machines a gold mine for data thieves
Sounds like a great idea. My understanding is that PLT Scheme goes way beyond R5 (even R6), and with the new "R7" dual standard on the way, better to change the name now rather than later and be potentially confused with the upcoming R7 "big" Scheme.
I am sorry, but please no URL shorteners.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

http://edwardbenson.com/how-safari-and-firefox-handle-html-5...
Publishers Push Back Against Steve Jobs' Anti-Flash Propaganda - Apple - Gawker
Sounds really hard... in the good, late night, I can't sleep because this game is so addictive and challenging sort of way.
Wpilot - websocket/HTML5 real time multiplayer game
Would you accept a visiting founder? I think it would add a different perspective. I am a single founder and would be interested.
<?php

$entries = 500000;

$db = new pdo( 'sqlite::memory:' );

$db->exec( 'create table abc (a integer, b integer, c integer);' );

$db->beginTransaction();
while( $entries-- )
{
$a = mt_rand( 1, 99 );
$b = mt_rand( 100, 999 );
$c = mt_rand( 10000, 99999 );
$db->exec( "insert into abc values ($a,$b,$c);" );
}
$db->commit();

$start = microtime( true );
$results = $db->query( "select a from abc where b=$b and c=$c;" )->fetchAll( PDO::FETCH_ASSOC );
echo count( $results ) . ' match, ' . round( microtime(true) - $start, 4 ) . 's to complete without index' . PHP_EOL;

// build an index
$db->exec( 'create index i1 on abc (c);' );

$start = microtime( true );
$results = $db->query( "select a from abc where b=$b and c=$c;" )->fetchAll( PDO::FETCH_ASSOC );
echo count( $results ) . ' match, ' . round( microtime(true) - $start, 4 ) . 's to complete with index' . PHP_EOL;

$db = null;

?>

mombook:~ hackermom$ php index_test.php
1 match, 0.1118s to complete without index
1 match, 0.0001s to complete with index
How is their current marketing and recognition? It might be worth it to start up an early marketing strategy and at least out-market them before you actually can launch. I don't know about the retailers, but some of them may be willing to wait on purchasing a product if they knew something better was coming along later.
"I was just saying it is important to have that social interaction with your age-peers, especially as a teen."

Why?

No, seriously, step back a moment. Why is it important that I socialize with high schoolers just because they share the same chronological age? Do you spend a lot of time interacting with people in a high-school fashion? I sure don't.

High-school culture is a dead end; it's an artificial construct brought on by artificial constraints that don't exist in the real world. If high-school culture is anything, it's a trap; all of use who have been out of it for at least five years can probably name a group of people who are "still in high school", to their social and professional detriment.

The only alternative worse than that is no acculturation at all, but that's not usually what's on the table, and that's a pathological outcome regardless of how you get there. School culture is just one step up from that, almost anything else will get you more real-world cultural skills than that.
I guess I'm not really understanding the problem. What third-party library weakness do you think Go is especially susceptible to, exactly? An example would be nice.
90 seconds * 200 passengers = 300 minutes.