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I love this. I don't usually have to fax stuff but, when the need arises (usually 4-5 times a year), this is how I'll send them.

I've used a few of the other online services before but canceling a monthly plan was like pulling teeth. I love the idea of being able pay by the page.
>Universities should not be in the habit of forcing all students to pay for the recreational activities of a select few.

Yes, thank you. If they're going to pay for someone to play football, they might as well fund me to play Chess or Go. They could probably also fund that guy down the hall from me to play Tetris all day; I'm sure he'd be able to find something "educational" in that.
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Can the problem with IE6 really be solved?
I believe Clicky only continues pinging for 10 or 20 minutes after a page loads (not sure which; they've changed it up a bit since introducing the pinging).

That's a great idea about detecting whether or not the tab is actually active. I don't know how difficult that is to implement without a visible element on the page, but I'm going to ask Clicky about adding that feature.
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Thank you. This allowed me to identify and remove an event that, while nice and quite innocent, was described in... "new age-y" language that might well put some contacts off.

I hesitated to rely on "security through obscurity" when using FB events as well as the old "fan pages", but social pressure caused me to give in on a few occasions.

Guess if and as I remain on FB, I'll avoid anything that has a public aspect to it.
The crazy phones in Japan that the iPhone is competing with
People back then complaining of addiction to YC News :)

It's interesting, that link isn't in either the archive or the contemporary HN. I wonder what happened to it...
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It is generally known that writing a thesis is not a very easy task to do. And when it becomes an APA Thesis Format, things get a little more difficult! The purpose is not to frighten you of the activity to write on it
The solution is for society to quit placing such a high value on am arbitrary piece of paper.

It's primarily an IQ test. An inefficient, expensive, and not terribly accurate test, but one that employers can use without getting sued out of existence.
For a server farm, that is definitely a big issue. for office computers (not maxed out most of the time), the difference is pretty marginal IMHO.
Apologies... I've updated the title to better reflect the reality.
Here is my understanding on why decriminalization of drugs is beneficial.

First, legitimate competition from suppliers would drive down costs, forcing high risk/high reward illegal operations from other countries out of the market. How can a Mexican drug cartel compete against grand-ma and her backyard?

Secondly, what is the violent side of drug activitey? Again my understanding is that it's mostly revolved around protecting/hiding illegal production, and moving the drugs to a dealer. If you eliminate that supply chain, that vector of violent activity would be cut off.

Thirdly, why do people use drugs. I see three distinct reasons, recreational, escapism, addiction. The first two can easily lead to the third. The second two could be helped/resolved through rehabilitation programs, or solving the cause to need of escapism. (8-14% unemployment can't be helping). The first case, there isn't much a reason to have otherwise productive members of society be in jail.

I don't believe that drugs are marked as illegal because of fear from pharmacy companies, or from paper/cotton companies. I believe it is that same reaction as prohibition, blue collar laws. Bad stuff can happen, bad stuff does happen, and government officials wish to prevent that from happening, on the immediate time line, without generally considering that the long term effects can be disastrous.

One additional thing. As part of decriminalization and in addition to rehabilitation programs, the government should be watching new recreational drugs entering the market, and doing studies to determine the health risks / benefits of these fringe drugs. I seems that like sniffing glue, kids seem to assume that just because a drug has not been classified as an illegal substance, it somehow isn't dangerous, when the case is really that the government is rather slow to address anything of relevance in a timely fashion. (Except steroid abuse in MLB, and communists)
Remember Babylonian Twins? It's now on Apple's top suggested games for iPad
Maybe I missed this from the article, but it would be really cool if someone would mash this pattern matching up in a macro with defn (maybe called "?defn" or something) so you could do stuff like the following without relying on apply:

(defn qsort
([] '())
([Head & Tail] (let [lower (filter #(< % Head) Tail)
upper (filter #(>= % Head) Tail)]
(concat (apply qsort lower) (list Head) (apply qsort upper)))))

I have barely played around with Clojure though, so if there is a nicer way to express that code, please drop a comment and try not to tear me to pieces. My point is that I would love to have pattern matching available in function definitions similar to Haskell/Erlang.
No hyperthreading though.
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What stats package do you use that gives you a "time spent on site" that's accurate for a single or final pageview (honest question)?

Most of them take a very pessimistic view. I believe Google Analytics counts a single pageview visitor as 0s, for example. That turns out to be terribly inaccurate for my site.
Also noscripters like myself are undercounted, since I read your whole post, but didn't have any reason to turn on Javascript for your blog.
This looks nice and the background story is interesting, but there are much faster ways to generate this sort of visual effect.
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IIRC, the guy tried several times to return it to Apple, and they kept ignoring him. And he waited three weeks before selling it, giving them ample time to get in touch with him if it was really theirs. Since Apple remotely bricked it, he had no way of getting in touch with Gray or any of his friends/colleagues directly.

So it really seems like the guy's options were to sell it to Gizmodo, or let it sit in a drawer forever. If the account above is accurate, then I don't think it's fair to imply the guy was acting in bad faith.
Of course ... it's a fractal (dimension = 2.05). Fractal present some degree of self-similarity, not a perfect one. In fact, this is the whole beauty of it.
I posted about this game to HN a few months ago when the game was close to launching[1] and it got a lot of attention so here is an update. The game was a big success and made it to the Top 25 of the Apple store charts in it's category in a lot of countries, and continues to do so, except in the US where it stayed there for a short time only.

I'm excited about it because it was written back in Iraq some 17 years ago for the Amiga by a group of my friends in college. But then the conditions there made it really hard to get it published, and soon after that the Amiga market died and the game died with it. Until recently, when Rabah, the game developer, decided to bring the team back together to re-launch the game on the iPhone and iPad. It goes to show the value of persistence. Congrats Rabah.

History: http://babyloniantwins.com/background/

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059188
Me> Everyone who uses Facebook knows it doesn't solicit, or give, money to/from its audience. There is zero question that Facebook is literally a ponzi scheme any more than it is literally a piece of shit.

Me again> So you know FB doesn't solicit funds or provide them?

You> Facebook does, in fact, solicit funds -- from advertisers...

You're not listening to me. So I won't listen to you.
The problem with something like this in a boat is that there is very little square space on a boat. You can't stack wall quite the same because a wall that's flush with the hull in one spot is banging up against it or hanging loose in another spot. Like another poster said, Most of these really clever uses of space you see showcased like this require a well shaped starting space.
I'm a big advocate of trying to find especially inept people to test software - unfortunately the people who signup for betas are usually tech geeks so they don't even try crazy inputs or things that "obviously shouldn't work".

I think this might be something to do with bugs showing up on release...
Thought this might be an article about running Flash on OSX due to the title.
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Right, but what is the probablity of that? it has to be 100% imo
Then how did Gizmodo find out it was Gray's? Seems like someone knew that along the way and could have tried that avenue.
Depends on how many things you'd want to link to a few counterweights. A few rfids on some objects and a couple of readers for positioning could do all the linking work you need.
Or to send it to Apple in a simple padded mailer. Or to bring it to the police. Seriously, his "only option" was to tell it to a gossip blog for thousands of dollars?
Don't judge optimized pngs from this example. Those pngs look terrible.

Here's what a 64 color png looks like created in Photoshop:
http://i.imgur.com/4p2SW.png

It's smaller and better looking than the jpeg that they actually use on their home page:
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/files/images/icons/twiki.jpg?125...

The photoshop version would look even better and be even smaller if it were created from the uncompressed source instead of a jpg.
Disclaimer: My wife is one of those professors (accounting).

In my experience professors care deeply about their students. Hell, most academics exist outside of fundable research. Think of the hundreds of humanities professors at every university. While they all have research interests... they hardly have anyone wanting to throw money at it.

The article actually touched on the fundamental issue. My wife did her time at a major research university. She finally decided that she'd rather spend her time as an educator, rather than as research arm for governmental policy (top level accounting professors play a big role in setting the direction of policy decisions).

She is now at a teaching-focused institution, but there is one problem: certain administrators continue to think in terms of the elite university model. They use the research metric, rather than the educational metrics as the ones to base advancement on. My wife is fortunate. Her time at the research focused institution has left her with a lifetimes worth of material for publishing. She can focus on teaching and her students benefit from it. A huge (epic) shortage of accounting professors means she is quite secure in her job... but that's definitely not true for most disciplines. So instead of being allowed to focus on students, these professors are FORCED into focusing on research. This is a scenario played out over and over again.

I'm not really sure what the right answer is, but I do think the traditional elite university model is quite broken at the lower level universities.
Comcast had the worst American Customer Satisfaction Index rating in the country in 2004 and 2007 (note that compares against government agencies such as the IRS and DMV as well). From the horror stories I've heard, your experience would appear to be an outlier. Lots of slow service, lots of failing to fix problems, lots of extraneous charges. Granted, cable companies in general are pretty bad with that[1], but statistically, Comcast seems to be perceived as worse. Note, for example, that the "bandwidth cap" you mention was not originally a stated policy--they just stopped service with no explanation.

Anecdotally, back when I played MMO's, whenever someone got disconnected and didn't come back for several hours, their first words upon reconnecting where always "fuck comcast." I'm not sure I heard any other company mentioned in similar circumstances. This came from quite a few players. Not enough to be statistically valid, maybe around 10, but enough to raise a red flag for me.

Comcast is also the company I associate most with anti-net-neutrality initiatives. They've admited to hiring a rent-a-mob to crowd out net neutrality advocates from an FCC hearing on the subject, and they don't just throttle torrents, but go so far as to insert false data in order to break connections.

[1] My roommate canceled Time Warner cable when we switched to AT&T. TW sent us bills for another four months, despite my roommate re-canceling every month. The last few warned that if we didn't pay they would discontinue service, so the problem eventually corrected itself.
I'm in favor of sweeping decriminalization (and legalization), but the data in this article -- hand-picked, no doubt, by the Cato Institute -- barely suggest correlation between decriminalization and declining drug use rates and stop way before causation.

The only conclusion you can legitimately draw from this, I think, is that decriminalization doesn't result in all hell breaking loose in at least the short term. Which is great! But I'd like to see a more substantial (and, if possible, more neutral) study.
That's exactly the point. If Mahalo was a restaurant and I am a dish washer, I probably won't think too much about who I work for and who I work with. But if I am a technologist then I would have to choose to work for a startup. Life is too damn short to be working for a dick.
Repositories can go offline while they're being moved to a new server, not so good for your website. I would suggest putting it on Amazon S3.
Wow, I was just accidentally browsing the "3 years ago" HN for about 5 minutes, not even realizing that I wasn't looking at the current view.
I wanted to elaborate on Matt & Rama's points and go a bit further:

GeoAPI

+ Got us an API key within 5 minutes of requesting it

+ Comes with a comprehensive list of points of interest, from place data (restaurants, bars, ...) to other (parks, cities, etc...) for the US. This was the single most important factor as it enabled us to build a place-aware application without worrying about places too much

+ Has an API that scales and easily handled our bump in traffic due to being TechCrunched

+ Has extremely supportive and fast technical support and issue resolution. The engineers, despite being at Twitter, still react in "startup-time" which is critical to our success

SimpleGeo

- Took 2 months to get us an API key

- Still has no POI data. This is apparently coming in their marketplace but will cost an extra fee and there's no way to test the quality of the data to-date

Basically, it was no contest. I have no doubts that the SimpleGeo guys have built a great way to index & search for data spacially, but without a comprehensive POI database, the effort required to build a geo app is much greater. With GeoAPI, we not only got fast geospatial search but also a well organized list of POI to go with it.

Hope this helps.
I hope this is okay for Hacker News...I thought if nothing else, the novelty of it made it worthy of submission.
When you learn how many of the women in prostitution are forced into that work by sex traffickers or sheer poverty, it's not hard to understand. The sex 'seller' often isn't the one who gets the money.
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Skip to the 6th paragraph if you already know the back story and want to read the actual Op-Ed piece.
I wouldn't call the drug buyer the "victim", just "harmless in almost all cases". Drug users don't typically commit violent crimes unless they're a junkie in search of a fix (very small minority). Most of the violence, theft and other law breaking comes from the people trying to make a business of it.

Regarding the sex seller being the victim, well, it turns out that many times she is.
Lots of bizarre rationalizing. "Nerds" tend to be unpopular because they lack emotional and social intelligence.
Might encourage some people, and yet might encourage more to seek treatment. Risk/reward, have to do the math to figure out if it's worth it.
That's a great idea, but the Facebook app will always be the weak point, because everything you share (to specific users) through it will still be open for Facebook to use however it sees fit.

Ultimately, I'd say this is the problem of social flatland: http://interuserface.net/2010/02/buzz-facebook-and-social-fl...

Disclaimer: That's my blog.
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I remember emailing Dharmesh after he made that post. I was still in school and had just started getting absorbed into the startup culture.
First, legitimate competition from suppliers would drive down costs, forcing high risk/high reward illegal operations from other countries out of the market. How can a Mexican drug cartel compete against grand-ma and her backyard?

Secondly, what is the violent side of drug activitey? Again my understanding is that it's mostly revolved around protecting/hiding illegal production, and moving the drugs to a dealer. If you eliminate that supply chain, that vector of violent activity would be cut off.

You've got this all mixed up. The violence is the competition. Drug violence is rarely about cartels vs cops -- more often it's cartels vs cartels and dealers vs dealers.
Less the Apple stories, it's certainly not "harder" news than we have today.

2. "I'm addicted to YC News"
23. "Worst Company Names"
24. "How to Kung-Fu Battle with investors"

FWIW, I've seen no discernible drop in quality since I registered here about a year ago.
I found it really odd how much the MC scores increased relative to the Xeon in the one Linux benchmark they ran. Maybe there's something about the that Windows handles NUMA that doesn't agree with AMD's system?
In which case you'd be most interested in your outbound clicks vs. your time spent on site or page views.
> This is like circa 1995 that these sorts of discussions were cutting edge

Of course, people born in 1995 are now 15 years old, a good age to begin figuring out the nuances of image formats.
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As a Reason user for several years, I'm floored. Not merely that these guys have basically built an entire platform for a browser-based Reason competitor, but by the sheer, astounding quality of the implementation.

The UI feels incredibly well thought-out, the virtual hardware artwork can only be described as a labor of love, and all the little UX things in a project that take way longer to get right than they seem, from the selection of device connections to way the cables lay around devices, feel like they've been iterated within a stone's throw of perfection.

If this were available on the desktop with MIDI support, it would be the first AIR app I'd actually pay money for.
Assuming airlines are trying to maximize their bottom lines, if they want to capitalize on this spike in demand to offset the lower demand that resulted from the flight restrictions, they might be wanting to slowly fill up flights by gradually lowering higher prices.

The idea would be to only have a few empty seats. If the flights are full, their prices might be too low. Eventually everything will return to historical equilibrium as stranded passengers exit the market.

Altruistic airlines might go out of their way to get stranded passengers back to their homes, which could build customer loyalty and long-run revenues, however.

(This is just all wild speculation.)
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You can learn about the Xyggy item-search technology at http://thenoisychannel.com/2010/04/04/guest-post-information-retrieval-using-a-bayesian-model-of-learning-and-generalization/.
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Interesting tangental fact from the article:

As Webb noted, the U.S. is home to 5% of the global population but 25% of its prisoners.
Doesn't this mac have two video cards? I didn't see in the article which one was being used but wouldn't the high end card off load the cpu when doing the 3D or Photoshop tests?
Ask HN: Any API/Service that generates Facebook like URL thumbnails ?
Facebook has a bunch of heuristics that picks an image from within the site to display along a shared link. Most services I found (thumbalizr, websnapr) seems to be doing only the thumbnails.
I love graphs and charts as much as the next person but I couldn't find where I would have been able to take the survey if I had known about it before hand, 1402 respondents seems low.
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> FWIW, I've seen no discernible drop in quality since I registered here about a year ago.

It already changed by the time you joined. News.yc used to be primarily about subjects that interested entrepreneurial programmers. It still is to a degree but now it's mainly another variant of Slashdot.
Latency is also a multipart problem, right? The software can always attempt to improve it's response time, but it can't change the latency on the wire.
Given this, it seem as if it is more a ranking of public opinion rather than customer satisfaction, although i'm sure there is plenty of over lap.

But there are probably quite a few outliers. I would doubt that many of the people who voted on this had ever used cash4gold. Same is probably true for apple since it usual retains pretty strong positive brand loyalty.

On a separate note, it seems strange that there was more negativity directed at Bank of America than Citi. Maybe this is just because more people are customers of BoA than Citi.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9357 :)
Professors don't collect money from undergrads to pay for research; they collect grants to fund themselves, their students, their labs, etc. They spend a tremendous amount of time and energy writing these grant proposals and submitting them to all the right people.

The reality is that most Research Professors (not all professors are on the tenure track, after all) are more motivated by research than by education, because they have to be. Nearly everything is stapled to #/quality of publications. If you don't like that, you'll have to revamp the whole system.

Besides, as much as we glorify it, teaching students sucks. Students do the bare minimum it takes to get the grades they want, and exhibit next to no real interest in the topics at hand. Add on to that that the professor has likely been researching an offshoot of this topic for years or even decades and you don't exactly have any motivation for the professor to put himself out there for the student.

If you want a professor to really care about you and make an active investment in you, you have to engage with him or her somewhere outside of class. The best way to do this is through research. If you want to put in your minimum to get your diploma, you're going to get that professor's minimum as well.
Henry Blodget says Facebook is overhyped
Thoughts?
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Some of the current drugs out there need to stay illegal. Not because they get you high, but because they are toxic.

I do believe, if some form of decriminalization happens, we really need to up the penalty for crimes committed while under the influence. Maybe assume premeditation. I should point out I believe the same thing about alcohol. Killing someone while drunk should be considered premeditated.
The logistics involved are hard. Really really hard. These are not boxes that are stranded. They're people. And people move around, change their minds, make other plans, book themselves multiple times, etc.
Isn't calling something "common sense" when it isn't the common belief kinda against the definition?