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I'm of Indian descent, but rarely speak my "mother tongue" (Gujurati). I'm most fluent in English and wouldn't mind giving this a shot.

How are you planning on teaching it? Using videos? A book?

I'd probably like to learn the basics of keeping a conversation, counting/measuring and asking for directions. After that most things can be learnt pretty easily.
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Citizens – including CEOs and corporate board members – are responsible not only to themselves and their shareholders, but also to their family members, to their neighbors, to their fellow citizens, and to humanity in general.

Usually these responsibilities do not conflict. When they do, the financial interests of shareholders should not always be the highest priority.

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Closer to home though, Beck directly promotes a political party whose platform is explicitly anti-empiricist, anti-civil-liberties, pro-internet-content-restricting, etc., and does it in a vile and toxic tone which threatens reasonable political discourse.
I've started asking in interviews what people thought was wrong with a particular language or environment and if they had any thoughts as to features they would want added (or removed).
The counter's a mix of dynamic and static hehe. The system doesn't actually update in real time so it looks at what its done at the last update, compares it to the update before, and applies the previous events/second.

It updates 2 or 3 times an hour so although it's never quite right it's never very wrong either - for instance right now it says:

- 1,818,889,440 approximation

- 1,818,804,151 real, as of 13 minutes ago.

- 140 events per second, real but based on the last update not right now

It's processing another log file right now and there's one 1/4 complete file on one server and one 1/2 complete file on the other, so right now the approximation is probably close to 2m events less than the truth.

I'll have to do some more testing to see what the issue is with the stuff at the top. Thanks for letting me know.
Yeah, I'm mainly thinking of videos with me talking and slides with English phonetic pronunciation. I'm also thinking a phrasebook might be useful.

If you know some Gujarati, you'll pick up Hindi fast. Bau similar chhe.

Edit: Oh and I'm also planning to use some kind of SRS tool like Anki or Supermemo.
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There in Vilnius (and a couple of other bigger cities) you just put a sticker with barcode in the corner of the windshield, register it with SMS and from then on you can pay by texting something like "PV 3 R" — which means parking in Vilnius for three hours in the red zone (prices differ by zones). That's it. If you wish you can get SMS with reminder that your paid time is about to expire.
I'm not sure how more unaware Conroy can get. He is or has been at particular stages "unaware" that the internet is different from traditional media like books, "unaware" that the proposed ban list includes topics like euthanasia or gay rights, "unaware" that the proposed filter would devastatingly slow internet, "unaware" that the proposed filter is trivially bypassed by criminals, "unaware" that he spoke with the US state department who appear critical of the plan, "unaware" that Google has maintained a pretty strong stance on user privacy and "unaware" that the Australian people do not want this.
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I wish Apple silently included support for new MBPs and will release those things soon. Getting really tired of waiting for new ones.
i agree, i'm mostly looking to see if anyone else has this exact same problem
His hints at what's to come from Apple are certainly getting less subtle, and I think he might have given away a bit too much this time.

The ppi of the iphone display is already higher than the ipad, so why double the resolution? That one doesn't make much sense to me.
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Hey everyone, I'm thinking of teaching Hindi through videos and tutorials. I'd be pleased if any of you are interested to learn this nice language. Details here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1228538.
You can buy an accessory that will turn your western toilet into a squat toilet. Or you can squat on the rim of the toilet, it's not so uncommon to do - ask girls. They often do that in their toilets.
This stand-up hacking approach, does not only make my hacking productive, but also helps me on critical thinking. When I'm not typing, I just walk away from screen, and do some critical thinking instead. After I cleared my head, I'll continue typing and hacking.

Looking at screen while thinking would make me scatterbrained, and get nothing done.
FWIW, Being able to read and understand uncommented code is an extremely valuable skill.
I recommend this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1153343
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Ok. What exactly is your problem though? Why wouldn't you just buy a printer?

On second thoughts, this service might actually be useful if the printouts are to be sent to someone else so that you don't have to deal with the handling and postage. For example, web or print designers might find it useful to send hard copies of their initial designs to prospective clients as a way of giving a quote. Small high street businesses and shopkeepers who don't have an online presence would probably find it more convincing to see something in the flesh rather than on a computer. In fact, designers could probably do this without even being asked for a quote. Find the postal address of potential customers and snail mail them some designs with a quote and your contact details.

Does that make any sense?
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Not sure I agree. The example linked to is for a profitable business selling a WP thingy direct to users. Making $10,200 profit per month.

It was sold for $90k which seems a low price given that profitability.

There's definitely lots of spammy rubbish on flippa, but just set the filters and you'll find the profitable decent businesses for sale.
What does "targeting sub-reddits" mean?
I like this idea but couldn't implement it due to problems with my heart. I think the old company of diet + exercise + not being grossly overweight should never be overlooked. Also I find frequent walks (on the pretense of getting coffee) can be very beneficial.
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0.2% for food & beverages! Looks like plenty of room there for startups, e.g. OpenTable-like service but for meal takeaways and orders (as opposed to OpenTable's eating out)
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This looks like a template language that I would use. And I like good PHP stuff showing on HN every once in a while.
I don't have access to a printer this week and this would have definitely been useful for me. When sending to third parties, its not just the effort of printing that's being saved but also buying the stamps, having enough envelopes and going to the postbox.

If this was also available internationally it would also cut delivery times down if the printing was done in the local country.
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Excuse but, aren't search shortcuts already a feature of firefox ?
Ask HN: Is Rails really MVC? 
I wonder if ror is really based on MVC though they claim, otherwise I am probably ignoring something very obvious.

Refer to the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller

Look at the diagram there. In ror the views dont refer Models directly. Its done essentially through the controller isn't it ?

Check out his component diagram http://lh4.ggpht.com/Dikiwinky/RwGSHOH-OWI/AAAAAAAAAEI/4UH_4ohjC4U/Rails2.png

Here also there is no interaction between Model and Views.

From this RoR appears to be just a 3 tier architecture.
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"For the same reason that Apple and Google supported Proposition 8: it's the right thing to do."

I think it would be more correct to say: They think it is the right thing to do.

I do not share their opinion. I am a buyer too and I do not look more favourably upon them because of this.

(I am not talking about Fox news here; don't receive it and have barely watched it, and can't form an opinion over that.)
I'm an American who hasn't been in the US for almost a year now, but I occasionally hear the name Glenn Beck. Why exactly is he the worst kind of person? What makes him markedly different from, say, Rush Limbaugh?

It strikes me that Apple's primary demographic is younger, urban, white-collar workers, who tend to lean liberal politically. Why should I view this as Apple 'Doing the Right Thing' instead of viewing this as Apple just catering to the views of the people who tend to buy their stuff?
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And 12 say "open standards" can't have patent royalties (i.e. H.264 is not an open standard).

1, which just happens to be a statement from a body that issues patent royalty bearing telecommunication standards, and which is explicitly responding to industry moves that prompted the other 12 definitions of "open standards" says, actually our standards have always been "open" and they include patent royalties.

Note that no other such body I'm aware of (such as ISO, MPEG, IETF) declares their royalty bearing standards as "open standards".

(The other one is just a historical curiosity, like someone referring to their source code being "open" years before "open source" was a thing)
Perhaps try videos in this format: http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy#g/p

Keep us posted!
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How do you fix this with normal meters though?

Here in Aus I've seen all 3 types - the specify a parking spot ones seem the smartest though.
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This also doesn't make sense. 57.9% of "food, beer and wine" are bought online? doesn't seem right.

EDIT: a quick google search shows the forrester says that online sales are 6% of retail sales(2009).
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/us-retail-sale-wi...
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I discovered http://tropo.com yesterday which seems to do the same thing a Twilio but has support for international incoming numbers.
I´m Indian on my father's side, and I never had a chance to learn the language. I would definitely be interested.
What about, say, Hitler?

Don't get me wrong, I can't stand Beck, but I do think he compares favorably to Hitler, Stalin, et al.
Of course he's kidding! I refuse to believe that wasn't some tongue-in-cheek statement. For fluid dynamics, all we are talking about is addition and multiplication, and the precedence rules for these operations are what you would expect them to be.
Sweet! I'll be trying that out as soon as you launch it.
Oh I love Khan academy. But I am thinking of a different format. I will use slides to show the text but I think there will be some amount of me just talking and explaining things. Thanks for the interest, I'll do a followup post.
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I would replace the counter with something like "We track about 140 events per second". That's easier to understand than some counter, where you don't know when it was started.
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Yeah, that's a different thing, the games I was thinking of were:

Pa to Tokeru! India Suugaku Drill DS
http://www.yesasia.com/global/pa-to-tokeru-india-suugaku-dri...

Indo Shiki Keisan Drill DS
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-70-2fox.html

I think the latter might be the same as the Korean title, Indian Math Brain DS.

For those that don't want to import stuff that they probably can't read (though I find you can usually get by) there's also Make 10: a journey of numbers which is a weird maths based adventure game, kind of Brain Age meets WarioWare:

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/nds/make_10_a_jour...
Wikipedia simply reflects the fact that nearly everyone spends far more time thinking about TV series or sports evens than about any single real person (except perhaps close family and friends, and fake stands-ins for these, i.e. media celebrities).

This should not be a surprise to anyone. The interesting question is why this is the case and whether it is in fact lamentable.
Possibly the second coolest thing that CERN has ever done.
Personally I'm probably just going to circumvent the link and find it myself. I think it's probably a waste of time by the OP really - like delirium said, they get probably 4-6% of the sale, right? If it's a $12 book (a popular amount for business books), they earn $0.60 per sale. If they cause 10 sales, they earn $6. I would think that it is rare that there are more than 10 sales via an affiliate link on HN but I could be way off. But really - even 100 sales is "just" $60.

Waste of time if you ask me.
This could come in useful for large documents or many copies of a document. It could be significantly cheaper to print 1000 copies of a ten page document on dedicated hardware (and have those copies delivered) rather than try to print that sort of volume locally.
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From the suggestions made so far, it sounds like there are a variety of niches where this might be suitable. Tailor your offer to each niche - for example, you could offer a high speed courier (i.e. motorbike) option for those who are speed (but not price) sensitive.

Perhaps offer a range of quality vs. cost.
This looks like a fantastic sequel to Tokyo Cabinet.

The first sentence translates to "Mikio is to live quietly." It should read, "Mikio is nothing less than a Greek God."
Well obviously it hasn't worked yet.
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i'm working on that :)
shoot me an email narf@(my username).org if you want a copy to play with
Spring has support for both container based aspect, which applies to the beans under spring's control and "real" AOP based on AspectJ.
Another post that confuses "all the features of C++" with "programming in C++"

Once more for the record, programming in C++ does not involve using all of the features of this massive language. In fact, a good C++ programmer keeps things as brutally simple as possible. C++ programming forces you to.

The author is dead-on about how you get swamped by the features. What he missed is that you come out of the valley on the other side with a good appreciation for "That hurts. Let's not do that unless we absolutely have to"

You know, C++ has to be a significant language. Nowhere else have so many people cried out in pain and frustration. Yet the language still rolls on. That's probably not much of an endorsement! (grin)
It's more like Aspect-Oriented Styling, because CSS is seriously lacking programming constructs. No variables, loops, conditions etc.
Not in my case. In fact, doctors appointments, haircuts & family gatherings etc provide my main imputes for shaving -- or when the stubble starts getting trapped in my phone :)
i'm working on that :) shoot me an email narf@(my username).org if you want a copy to play with
Been using an Aeron for 12 years. Now I have a rip in the seat mesh, and one arm fallen off because of the snapped bolt. I could order parts to fix it, but I'm thinking it might be a good time to try out something new.

Does somebody have any recommendations for the chairs in similar price range of Aeron?
The video says it will be available in 14,000 days. I will probably have forgotten by then.
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It's with reference to this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033433
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What OS (and Firefox version) are you using?

It would be a shame to blame the font or the browser if it's your platforms font rendering that's broken.
Much of our collaboration/communication is done over IM. The problem with IM is that they still expect a reasonably instant reply. Sure, you can ignore it but then you'll just get an email and/or a phone call.

As a preference though, I prefer to talk to people face-to-face so you can see if they're too busy/stressed etc.
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Apple is just cultivating brand blandness. Steve Jobs aspires to be inoffensive to everyone, like Jim Davis does with Garfield the cat. If Glenn Beck had the personality equivalent of rounded corners and a shiny finish, Apple wouldn't be doing this.
The iPhone has a higher ppi, but a smaller screen. They may be trying to harmonize the resolution across the devices even though one is physically larger.

Though to be honest, I think it's just the constant march of technology, more ppi is better right up to the point where you can't distinguish any improvement.
Actually, I do this: www.mailfinch.com

It started out as a joke -- partly inspired by Dustin Curtis' Snail project and the fact that my dad (and a bunch of his friends) sent a lot of flyers for their small businesses.
I have little experience with the others under "can't scale just like MySQL", but putting CouchDB under is more wrong than it is right and unfair in any case.

First of all there's excellent single node scalability, the general architecture is built with based on clusterability with support for node disconnects and reconnects between nodes. And then there's http://tilgovi.github.com/couchdb-lounge/ which provides clustering today.
I'm confused; clicking the links it's clear why they aren't listed as top level sites - because they redirect to sub levels (i..e /london goes to /local/london).
Cool! I must say I didn't think of this demographic at all. I thought only Americans or other non-Indians would be interested.
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That's just a bad comparison, you'd need to compare something like the DC universe to Catholicism because each schism, saint, pope etc. would get their own page just like each character, writer, film adaptation.

Often long articles are a sign of neglect: "I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter." -- Blaise Pascal
How does that work? Supposedly a bran muffin is high in fiber which would help digestion and prevent constipation.
Hrm, I can't say I'm that excited by this; does it have any advantages over Smarty or any of the other template systems out there?

Edit: Although I must confess I like the name, new Mustache() indeed!
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Why does not one of the many, many people who point out this amusing imbalance in Wikipedia take the next logical step:

Either we force people to write only about the things that we think are worthy, or we actively prevent people from writing about the things we think are unworthy. Alleged "problem" solved.
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Have you spent any time setting it up? Considering the amount of time you sit in it 30 mins reading the manual is time well spent, and it really does make a difference.
"While no one looks good here, YouTube's founders come off particularly poorly."

In the legal sense, I would agree that YouTube's founders may be in trouble. However, the statement (like a lot of the rest of the article) sounds qualitative, and I take issue with that. The underlying problem is that copyright law doesn't work and YouTube's founders know it. They didn't have respect for stupid legislation and therefore pushed it as far as they could without getting in trouble.

I think it's imperative that lawsuits such as this aren't seen as a search for right or wrong. It's two giant corporations arguing about dollars and cents, so typical ethical standards we use when dealing with humans do not apply.
One way to teach people Hindi would be to create a video (maybe a series) on 100 most used Hindi words and phrases, with context, pronunciation and transliteration.

Another way may be cheatsheets. For example, this Hindi cheatsheet. http://www.gng.org/currents/india/ind_lang.html
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Valve encoded several images in sound files for their recent alternate reality game. They used a method called slow-scan television - quite different from what Aphex Twin did, but still very interesting:

http://kotaku.com/5484157/valves-portal-puzzle-so-far-the-fi...
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I realise this is a joke, but patents cover the use of something, not just reproduction or manufacture.
A common mistake I see on the interwebs is that Aphex Twin is a band; it's one guy and that guy is Richard D. James.
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Yes I am thinking of teaching conversational stuff first through videos. Cheatsheets would also be good, thanks for the link.
Ask HN: Best tools for standing coding
I've coding standing up for about a week now and am really enjoying it. It was hard at first, but my body is getting the hang of it. I'm just using a wooden box on my desk to prop up my monitor and the Art of Computer Programming to prop up my keyboard (motivation finish it?).

They look kind of crappy. Are there any stands, desks or contraptions of some description that you recommend for coding standing up?
I was probably extra angry because I bought it in hard covers instead of waiting. :-)
What are the people who disagree with his cause supposed to vote?

They're politically motivated to claim he's a bane if he's really a boon, and more deviously claim that he's a boon if he's actually a bane.
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Awesome! What's the response like?
For one Gruber is lampooning WSJ's entrance into the Apple rumors business, so keep in mind he might be mentioning those "specs" in jest.

And for two, it should be noted that competing devices released in the past year have higher density displays. Also higher density displays allow for better looking user interface. I would imagine Apple wouldn't want to be outdone in either respect.

In short, I don't think we should draw conclusions neither from Gruber's post, nor from the densities of other devices Apple may be selling.
Actually, this font is better than the previous one on Mark's blog.
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