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I think that's absolutely compelling, as long as it isn't anything like Sedo. The only things Sedo does well are (comparatively) low fees and customer service (which is excellent and necessary in the industry). Other than that, the interface is impossible to work with, and the internal messaging system leaves much to be desired. The only success I've had in selling domains to startups in the past were funded, so this would facilitate more revenue for the domainer, as cash flow from parking domains has really taken a hit over the past couple of years. I'm confident this idea has a fighting chance of being a success - I've seen other companies with large portfolios of domains go down the leasing route, but there's no transparent, market normalizer that lets the individual user post and lease domains. My one concern would be that this is a nice niche business (and one that could be fulfilling at that), you'd have to do your own research to see if the idea is big enough to warrant your own time and energy.
Jamie Zawinski was an early Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, and XEmacs developer. He now runs a nightclub:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
I'm somewhat older, and I feel your pain. :-)

But more, I'm disappointed that we haven't spent the effort that goes into reinventing these things every ten minutes on something more productive. There are plenty of simple things in my everyday programming work that could be automated to take less time, given the right language tools or libraries or development environment, but where it is still faster in practice to do everything the "hard" way than the "easy" way. How am I ever going to code up all my pet project ideas in a single lifetime at this rate? ;-)
Modern electric bullet train unit with high powered axles ratio can accelerate really, really fast.

Yes, but accelerating the entire train is going to cost way more energy than accelerating the transfer car. Also, the transfer car can simply use wheels and brakes to gain kinetic energy from the train, so it can be incredibly light. Even if a longer track and motor are necessary for high speed bullet trains, there would still be a big energy savings.

Also, no matter how quickly you can accelerate to make a stop quickly, the same train will be able to save considerable trip time with the transfer car system. Saving a half hour or hour off of trip time from a route is certainly worthwhile, especially if it means that the train can run the same route at a lower top speed. The energy savings from that could be enormous over the long term.
Has anybody been able to set up PyDev for Google's App Engine? I went through http://alishabdar.com/2009/05/06/develop-google-appengine-wi... and the official tutorial, but it keeps giving me errors about the VERSION of the App Engine. (Sorry, I don't have the exact error handy.)

Thank you,

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This wasn't an anti-piracy measure.

The game was free to play, but they uploaded it to sites such as The Pirate Bay to distribute it. They mention that people have been put off by the game due to the large file size (excess of 500mb, I think) which is generally not a daunting feature to those who use torrents.

The didn't really fool anyone, per se... they just took advantage of distribution channels.
- the users will alter their behavior when mentioning the URLs (as I did just above). And will wonder why they are not linkable.

What?! I know of no one who ever, ever, ever said http:// when mentioning a URL. I certainly don’t do that.
He's interesting for far more reasons than running a night club. If you get a chance, check out Coders at Work---he's the first chapter (interview).
Could you deliver that text program to the user such that they could compose it with others in a standard environment? I think that's the real point - that programmers were discouraged from falling into habits of older platforms.
I have to wonder how it is a "massive improvement for simplicity for most web users". Here's a question: What problem does this solve for most users? Was the existence of "http:// at the beginning of a url actually a problem for most users? If it's to emphasize the domain, Google Chrome 5.0 beta on OS X and IE8 both have domain highlighting, without breaking copy/paste.

I would also dispute the idea that only a "small percentage of users who would ever need or want the 'http:// there." Facebook and Twitter can drive as much traffic to some sites as Google. Breaking copy/paste doesn't help in sharing links.
A plane crash is pretty bad for profit (but even worse for health admittedly :-)
Hmmm, you're right, their formal education at MIT only includes Hewlett getting his Masters there with his BS and Ph.D. at Stanford (Packard got his BS and Masters at Stanford, all this according to Wikipedia).

As far as I know they did feel some affinity with MIT, but it sounds like the Stanford connection is overwhelmingly dominant.
Slightly aside, but worth noting is that much of the founding team of Danger went on to create a small startup known as Android, later acquired by Google.
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Ironically, this little NYC scene (including the author of this article) is also very incestuous and prone to logrolling.
#define mention(url) type_or_paste_into_facebook(url)

Sorry that my wording was unclear. "referencing in writing elsewhere" might have been a better one.
And Europe has 22,000 daily flights normally, 17,000 of them were cancelled Saturday. 17k flights times average number of passengers (100?) times average ticket cost ($100?) - it adds up to a lot of lost income. And as mentioned, the airlines were barely profitable as it were, and most of their costs are the same whether they are flying or not.

Analysts are saying that many/most of the airlines in Europe will be bankrupt in a couple of weeks if nothing changes, some think we will be seeing the first bankruptcies within a few days.
Copy/paste seems to be working perfectly well on Chrome for me. And if there are other buggy cases, why are you assuming they cannot be fixed? Facebook and twitter will work just fine.

The problem it solves is one of simplicity. http doesn't mean anything to many people. I happen to like it gone - it's a redundant piece of information removed from my UI. I appreciate that.
My comment is only tangentially related to the article. I'm not implying what they did was an anti-piracy measure, only that there are other ways to use bittorrent creatively.
"So far, Tumblr is growing, but it’s nowhere near MySpace’s 70 million users or Facebook’s 61 million or even Wordpress’ 3 to 4 million [...]"

Ah, how things change...
I agree, when I am browsing urls are as good as irrelevant to me, obviously when I have my developer hat on I need to see them.

when I seen the april fools joke about the redesign of ie9 I thought it looked awesome - http://livesino.net/archives/2587.live
They are paying back tickets. They have to, at least that’s the case in Germany. I think they don’t have to pay your hotel bill because they are not to blame, but that seems to be about it.
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Someone on HN using the word "ObamaCare" is just another notch in reasons why I'm slowly not visiting anymore. Jesus.
The two biggest German airlines Lufthansa and Air Berlin are now in a full on PR war with the public authorities. It’s as if you flipped a switch, they remained silent about the whole thing until today.
I think that he was just using that as an example. I hope it's not true in any way.
Underwood went to MIT to solve their problems with canning and the result was making the process scientific and safe and the birth of food science and technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Underwood_Company#Invol...

MIT's Food and Nutrition department was very successful until it became Applied Biology and committed the sin of raising more money than the Chemistry and Biology departments, at which point administrators who were professors in those departments figuratively killed it in the dead of night (although recently another Applied Biology department was evidently started).
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Network Solutions hacked again - Bad month for netsol
Why bad month? Just a few weeks ago they got hacked:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/04/mass-infection-of-wordpress-b...

Now all sites got hacked again...
The comments on that link point to an interesting poor man's variant (disembarkation only): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_coach

Pretty obvious I suppose, but interesting that it was actually used in routine service for a few decades.
It's a bit late in the game, but maybe we could adopt a new one-character standard to replace http:// with something shorter, but still easy to parse, like the @name system being made popular by twitter, etc. Some ideas:

:news.ycombinator.com

$news.ycombinator.com

!news.ycombinator.com
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pretty cool...kinda sad that the U.S. stopped doing cool things like this. What was the last big infrastructure project?
They can print the first name of the customer on the ticket and make sure someone matches the name to an ID at the venue. Simple solution that will make the scalper's life very difficult.
Removing choice from users is bad...

But how many average users do you know actively pick what protocol to use? None of them. For them, HTTP is it.

Only geeks use FTP anymore.
I'm a web designer so the criticism I have is of the website itself.

While the aesthetics of the site is quite good, it does not meet the objective of introducing the key benefits of the app, and inviting the user to try it out.

If you are tracking your visitors, I'm sure you have a high bounce rate. You should redesign your site.

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Ask HN: Why not a Video Mute?
It happens to you? do you only need to hear a video audio without looking at the video but the only opportunity is to mute the audio channels.
People have been using "lol, hey, go to www.google.com" for years without problems.
I'm very glad that KLM is pushing to lift the flight bans! From what I understand, is there are no strict rules to decide when not to fly due to volcanic eruptions. The current bans are just based on calculations and now the KLM (and the two German airlines) have done tests and it shows it's safe to fly. I want to catch my flight to the Netherlands from Hong Kong this Saturday and I have full confidence in the integrity of KLM.
"And that makes us honestly nervous – we’ve seen what happens when large American corporations create cultures that worship secrecy and refuse to answer to the press. It’s not pretty"

Yep; I'd say that Apple is not a good long term bet unless they change this part of their culture, which will evidently only possibly happen after Jobs retires.
Yeah, to me the biggest thing that got me interested in science was stuff outside of school (science museums, computer tinkering) that got me engaged in the idea of empirical problem-solving. I think a lot of people learning / failing to learn technical subjects feel totally disconnected from why the stuff they're learning even exists, or how they could possibly come up with anything like it: more like gospel truth than something you could possibly do yourself.

I'm not sure it'd work for everyone, but I found science much more interesting once I started approaching it from a historical perspective, reading original papers, biographies, accounts of controversies, etc. It's pretty clear when you approach it that way that all the various abstractions, models, etc. were invented by real people to solve actual problems (whether practical or theoretical). It also makes it more clear how you would approach things as a scientist when you figure out how the existing content of science got there.

I also sort of dislike the didactic teaching of "scientific principles". Giving kids a Seven Laws of Scientific Method to memorize or something is kind of lame, and a lot less believable than trying to show them why some methods of empirical discovery are better than others, i.e. if they want to learn something about a phenomenon, how they might go about doing so. Science is supposed to be a way to help you learn about the world, not something scientists do just because their journals say so.

(A heavy-handed focus on Scientific Method also risks getting into territory scientists don't actually agree on. Are you a scientific realist or an instrumentalist? A falsificationist or probabilistic verificationist? Etc.)
Drag another window over the top. You can't just play more audio over the top as it just makes a mess, so it needs mute.
One note: I can't think of a worse place in the US to job hunt from than Michigan state.
Looks cool as a concept but I'd like to see an actual implementation.

Also, the initial jolt on impact of the pick-up car is going to be very unpleasant, and perhaps even dangerous.
You and I are in a similar situation, but kind of opposite; I have my BS in CS (I love saying that because it rhymes) and I have experience working on large software projects in the defense industry. Right now I'm also pursuing my MBA. I can make an app right now (which I am) but since I lack a formal business education I felt it was a good idea to get one, if nothing else, for the networking opportunities.

Some things they probably won't teach you (at least not in enough depth) with a formal CS degree is:
- Design patterns and why they're totally awesome
- Source control
- Debugging / unit testing (I couldn't fit this in my curriculum in undergrad, although it WAS technically offered, but at the graduate level)

In a CS degree they really go in depth into HOW stuff works, which is nice, but not really practical to put into use. For example, we were forced to make our own ArrayList implementations. Good experience, but you'll never actually use your own implementation (usually). We were forced to use other, seemingly useless/dead languages just to be exposed to other ways of thinking. It was interesting, but I've never REALLY used that knowledge. And the list goes on.

I think if you're just prototyping a web app you'll be fine, especially if you're not planning on doing the development yourself down the road.

If you find you're lacking knowledge on some part of your development just pick up an O'Reilly book and learn it. Speaking as a professional software engineer, that's really all we do too when we hit a road block.
You talk about profit as if it's something to be ashamed of. Facts are 1) if safety really was more important to you you wouldn't fly anywhere, you'd stay safely at home and 2) if there are fewer airlines operating then you personally will need to pay more for your ticket.
I'd also thought of this independently in the past, presumably lots of people have. As for decelerating, I have no idea if any modern trains do this, but you could in theory charge a battery with the kinetic energy from decelerating the train and use that for acceleration. Naturally it wouldn't be a perfect energy transfer, but I presume much of it could be captured.
What object would you pass to NSColor to generate a color from HSB components? Wrap them to NSHue, NSSaturation, and NSBrightness? Or generate NSHueParameters first?

(Please note that I don't intend to argue, I'm asking for a better solution. Thanks!)
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that's bullshit. why is the right thing to encapsulate your data into an object before passing it around? that's your opinion on what's right, I guess, but I don't think it's the right way.
You certainly could with CodeWarrior, I can't remember about MPW.

And umm, of course programmers should be discouraged from falling into habits of older platforms. Otherwise the web would look like an IBM 3270 :-)
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One issue is that you're consuming unnecessary bandwidth. Another is consuming unnecesary CPU. so that solution just give a different perception but don't solve these two issues.
This is great. Sadly, I can't stand Eclipse anymore. I have used it for a years and I was happy to let it go for a real editor. I know some plugins are really great, but Eclipse per se is a big laggy thing without consistency.

For example:
- Themes are really hacky and only works on some windows
- Editor are clearly bad (delete a line, delete to the end of X, go to the next ", and the fact that some editor support some hotkeys, while others dont)
- Documentation = extremely bad, enough said about that
- Configurations are scattered everywhere without consistency.

But hey, that's the problem with plugins and over-customization, it quickly becomes a mess.

But still, sorry for my hate comment.. It is probably because I'm sad that such a great tools (PyDev) has been made on a crappy thing that I hate (Eclipse) :(
In Delft a student offered to take me on the back of his bike, sitting on the newspaper carrier. I expressed strong skepticism and he said, "Trust me, I'm Dutch."

Within 50 yards of starting our journey, I had been unceremoniously spilled onto the pavement, bleeding from my elbow.
Well, even just weight of the people in the transfer car will make it quite heavy (few tons at least). And you are not going to make this for just 10 people at each (non)stop.

You could save some energy by using only recuperating electrodynamic brake to zero to stop the train and store it in some supercapacitators (not on the train, of course) if there isn't any other train to use it. Because you have many powered axles, you could brake quite effectively and fast enough. Well, possibly still not fast enough to use just EDB.

Raising top speed is of course going to cause much higher aerodynamic drag, so if the energy use is primary concern, it's not exactly the right thing to do. I rather meant eliminating any drops in the average traveling speed except the stations.

But I can't really argue against energy savings, because most likely, there would be energy savings :-) If you could built such a system safe enough (I don't believe that) and with less than absolutely insane costs (I don't believe that either :-)).
There's satellite data as well, e.g. picking up SO2 and I think infrared off the particles, but the only one I read about and that I therefore know can do that takes most of a week to image the entire planet.
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I think you mean "let the poor school have its moment in the ORACLE". :-)
Here's one slide we've been using in Cloudomatic presentations (investor pitches or just normal event talks) to tell help tell the narrative of where the market is going: http://imgur.com/XyHoC
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I think he's referring to the API to get the components out of the NS/UIColor, not create the NS/UIColor object.
Jeeze...sleazebags hacking sleazebags.

I saw the headline and thought "cool!", but then read the article and was disappointed -- I'd been hoping for some kind of stick-it-to-the-man, fight-the-monopoly sort of thing...sigh.

Personally, I've just got ticketmaster.com mapped to an invalid IP address in /etc/hosts -- reminds me not to give them any money (or traffic, for that matter).
Check out this for example: http://www.tfhrc.gov/humanfac/sleep/sleepweb.htm
People were sleep deprived, then tested on a road simulator.

Also, if you're looking for some data, the problem is that many fatal accidents' causes are reported as unknown. Given the results of the simulation, a majority of those accidents may be related to sleep deprivation.
I find it mindboggling that instead of removing the silly and superfluous "www." they are trying to remove the meaningful and important "http://.

It doesn't solve any actual problem and creates a slew of new ones.
GREAT article, perfectly on-point to the follow-up question about my comment. Thanks.
It's quite common. Except that there are no batteries (battery won't do, you can't charge it fast enough), you just need to have another train in the same section to consume it (or whole network, if your converter substations are ready for that). Energy savings estimates were like 10 to 20 percent (don't have any link for this, it was some British study I remember, sorry).
The article listed bugs. Facebook and Twitter will work fine, it would just be more inconvenient because of the bugs introduced by the new scheme.

It's not redundant information, it is information on what protocol is being used. That is important information. And this information is still being displayed, the only difference is it is displayed in an alternate form of an icon. An icon representation introduced by Chromium and unfamiliar to the majority of internet users. Now the Chromium developers have to decide how to display alternate protocols, will https be represented as text or as an icon? Will other browsers use the same icon representation? Are we assuming Chromium users will only use Chromium, will this confuse users who regularly use other browsers?

To say that other bugs will just be fixed ignores the bugs caused by the unnecessarily introduced complexity.
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those four words every venture capitalist loves to hear: “I have an idea”

I was under the impression that VCs love those words the way novelists love "Oh! I've always wanted to be a writer--let me tell you about the first novel I'd write..."
If I understood that very good "Longest Suicide Note In History" screed against Vista correctly (and my memory is not failing me), adding Blu-Ray support would require a lot of engineering work that would make their machines less stable. E.g. the electrical margins have to be narrowed to make it less likely someone can tap in.

Maybe it wasn't true, is no longer true, Apple is already doing this, etc., but that could be an additional reason. Lots of other ones, like minimal adoption, were cited in this item.
you could poll convicted criminals to determine what sort of morality they're operating off of, and see if it even differs statistically from the population as a whole.

There have been studies of this nature. I recall seeing a report about such interviews with criminals quite a long time ago, on the United States television program Sixty Minutes. Convicted criminals generally use considerably different moral reasoning from typical members of the public without criminal records. One example: a prison inmate was asked how he felt about taking other people's possessions. He replied, "I think of it as MY thing, not his thing."
I haven't used Google App Engine, but I did notice that in the newest version of PyDev there are two new project types (Django Project and App Engine project). To create special project type for App Engine: File > New > Project > PyDev Google App Engine Project. This is not mentioned in that tutorial, so maybe that wasn't available at the time.
"Find me a renter with that kind of ROI on their investments over the last 5 years" is asking the wrong question.

While it's true that there are wins to be made in real estate (and I congratulate you on your successful outcome), there are also losses. Not only did you pay $500 more a month, you took a risk (the degree of which depends on your circumstances) that the home would rise in value. Had it not done so, you'd be stuck paying $500 more a month in addition to other potentially large losses.

Renting is (generally) lower cost, lower risk, lower potential ROI. Buying is (generally) higher cost, higher risk, higher potential ROI.
There are individual methods like `hueComponent` if you want them. http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/r...

I still don't get the point.
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