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Replying to myself: an interesting aspect, I think, is that this isn't solely a failing of C++ (though C++ has plenty wrong with it). This model of structs-with-methods had already started appearing in C, in the form of APIs built around sets of functions that all operated on the same struct, which was passed as a void* as the first parameter of all the functions (void* for encapsulation purposes); see the pthreads API, for example. So in some ways it's also a consistent, and even sort of naturally arising, model of OO, sort of an organic development out of structured programming, where structs and associated functions serve a main role in the structuring. It's of course a quite different notion of OO from Kay's message-passing, so maybe should have a different name, if it were an ideal world?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes
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Smacks a bit of Lamarckism doesn't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism
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If you mean this specific solution, then yes - Bluetooth is probably more advanced. If you mean general "line of sight" networking, then no. Laser connections between buildings are doing just fine and provide communication on bigger ranges than customer-grade wireless. There's also no interference between many lasers in the same area. Once calibrated, laser links provide stable (or at least more stable than wifi) quality.
Thanks for the Scrapbook+Dropbox tip. :)
also: The laptops are designed and are efficient.

This is basically a spam account: http://news.ycombinator.org/submitted?id=varindia
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Oh man, am I glad that page is cached now. (Generating it from a clean memcached takes 30 seconds.)

Not sure why you guys are suddenly interested today, because its been up for quite some time now, but if you've got questions hit me.

P.S. I hate summer.
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my mother is exactly the same. she thinks that doing anything online is inherently risky. I try to explain that when shes uses to pay for stuff in a shop, or over the phone, her credit card details are being transmitted over the internet too, but she wont listen.

There _are_ risks with shopping from your PC. Largely from key-stroke recorders. However, the 2 times I've been victim of fraud were both from card-skimming in a physical store.
Interesting parallel: a while back there was an outcry over the military ousting gay translators who were fluent in Arabic. The point was that in a time of exigency, it was silly to let a mere sexual orientation issue take precedence over solving the problem at hand.

How things change.
Address formats are different all over the world. Lots of places call them "postcodes" not zip codes (e.g. the UK). Some places have no postcodes (e.g. Ireland). Lots of places don't have 'states'. And the US has lots of 'cities' whereas lots of places would have local towns or counties.

You usually need addresses to send someone something. I'd suggest just putting in a text field and letting the user just type it in freeform.
Not everyone learns in the same way. Some people learn better when they see something, some may want to hear it, some read...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
I think the problem Obama hints at (but not really explains) is very real. We're the first generation with all the world's information at our fingertips.

We could all be polymaths, we could all get sound understanding of Philosophy, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Politics and so forth... but largely, we don't.

Learning has never been easier, because you can get information in the format you want (audio, video, text, or interactive content) with a click of the mouse. You can pick between course material from dozens of universities and you can read papers written by academics all over the world. And yet, largely, we don't.

We read blog posts that have near zero information content, and the ever present discussion threads where only the least controversial and inane posts rise to the top. But why? Why do we do this, when we know that we'd get much, much more from the internet if we used it to read well written and thoughtful content instead?

Most likely it's just human nature. We're addicted to small bite-sized chunks of non-information. There are a lot of people who can read the internet all day, ever day, only to take breaks by watching TV shows and playing video games. Without ever getting bored. Day, after day, after day.
I don't really understand what one does with a Bingo Card created by this software. Is this an American teaching method that's common?
Ok, so (like many/most angels) you like priced deals :)

Any other terms, or trends, you care to share?

(Roy, "truly junior" beginning angel in Boston)
Thanks for the link. Good stuff. I had only seen a condensed version. But, man, scribd just gets worse and worse.
I am not jdietrich, but I have a 3-going-on-4-year-old child, and she is certainly a "distinctive individual with unique preferences and aptitudes".

On the other hand, she is certainly different from (say) what she's likely to be in 15 years' time, in ways that are clearly related to her age. There are things I wouldn't say or do with her because they aren't "age-appropriate", though I wouldn't use that particular term. If someone who didn't know my daughter tried to tell me that I couldn't do this, that, or the other because it wasn't "age-appropriate" then I might react in roughly the way jdietrich did; but if my wife did, then I hope I'd give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she meant "appropriate for who and what she currently is". (Though I might have trouble giving her the benefit of the doubt in a situation like the one in the original article...)

As for the original situation, I don't think there's any point trying to pass judgement on what they said to each other in those first few minutes. No one is at their best in that kind of situation. On the face of it, at least, what they ended up doing seems to have worked out well enough for them, but of course it's quite possible that we're hearing a distorted version of the story.
Yeah, this feels like a subject that needs a few pages, even for a short, journalistic take on the subject, and this article treats it pretty flippantly in half a page, which doesn't add a whole lot to the debate.

(And I even like The Economist; it's the only dead-tree periodical I subscribe to.)
Was just browsing it and since it had so much juice, I thought HN might be interested :)

By the way, people, do check out other pages in the sidebar. The link showing expenses is especially interesting.

@patio11: don't you have conversion stats on this page? I see it has free sign ups and total revenue, month-wise. But having month-wise conversion stats (across the funnel) will be interesting.
Care to make your point a bit more explicit?
I've around 200 clients (around 100 active), with an average business of $1000 per client.
Would that we all had someone in our lives who knows and loves us so well.

It's not always easy to pinpoint what exactly is it that makes us unhappy. And according to Daniel Gilbert (seriously, check out his book and TED talks), we sort of suck at predicting what does make us happy.

And usually, we know what's better for ourselves than anyone else. That's because we have more information about ourselves than anyone else, of course. But it's easy to get lost in the echo chamber of our minds, and that's when a second opinion becomes priceless.
Yeah taking from $EDITOR would be great. I use emacsclient extensively and $EDITOR is set differently wrt to context.

As a temporary solution I have a monkey patch as shown here:
http://github.com/jberkel/interactive_editor/issues/2
I'm just still sore about having to wait another 8 or 9 months to get a MacBook WITH A 13" SCREEN that has a CPU from this century.

2.4GHz Core 2 Duo in their latest offerings.... while all the competition is flashing around i3s and i5s.

Steve Jobs reply: We figured people care more about game performance and battery life.

Well, since when is "gaming" what people get Macs for!? I'd rather you sped-up my Photoshopping and my Compiling than my playing of ports of games from the early 90s.
Just another way keeping students entertained while teaching them something.
Literary essays are quite complex to prepare
Literary essay are not the same as literary reviews. Literary essays are written on topics within the works and presented in a solid, well based, logical manner. With the proper writing tips you will be able to write exceptional literary essays which will impress the readers.
Ask HN: Is Google cataloging my girlfriends?
I recently did a search on Google using the "Wonder Wheel", which lists related queries as spokes off of your original query. When I searched with my girlfriend's name, one of the spokes was my own name. Not a problem here, as many search results point back and forth between the two of us (blog, twitter, etc).

However, another spoke off of my girlfriend's name was surprisingly my ex-girlfriend's name. Now, of course, this might make sense if they had any related search results, but they don't. There's absolutely nothing on the web that directly links one to the other or contains both of their names. Moreover, there's nothing on the web that links me to my ex, so it can't even be an indirect connection of that sort through me.

Point is, I'm concerned as to how Google came to link the two. Since my current girlfriend and ex have never, to the best of my knowledge communicated online in any way (publicly or privately), the only explanation I can come up with is that Google has taken note that my girlfriend and ex may have done Google searches on each other. Has an invasion of privacy gone on here? Can you think of any other possibilities?

UPDATE: If we don't come up with a reasonable explanation, how should I take this up with Google?

FURTHER UPDATE: Anyone interested in trying the search from themselves can leave contact info for me somewhere. As long as you seem trustworthy and will not share them with others, I'll send you an email with our names so you can confirm/investigate.
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In fact, in C++ structs and classes are the same thing, only struct declarations starts with public visibility by default and class declarations starts with private visibility by default.

That's their only difference in C++.

And so instances of structs and instances of classes are the same thing in C++ too.

You will even sometimes see member functions defined on structs.
[FROM OP:] I thought of a fifth question and updated the posting.
Let's say you're doing, I don't know, a lesson on cellular biology. After wrapping it up, on Friday afternoon, you want to play a fun game which still has some educational content. So you print out one Parts of A Cell bingo card for each student in your class and explain how bingo works (or not, because they've almost certainly played before).

Then start calling things like "This center of the cell is where the chromosomes are stored". Kids mark "nucleus" on their bingo card. Repeat a few times -- somebody wins, the rest of the class comes close to winning (this is the diabolically brilliant thing about bingo), everybody is happy and most don't realize they've just reviewed some vocabulary.

Yes, this is a quite common activity in America. You'll find it in almost any book of teacher activities from elementary school through high school.

Bingo has a few features which make it particularly good from the teacher's perspective, incidentally. It scales to any number of kids with one teacher (not true of all games), it performs excellent crowd control since all students are forced to proceed at the same pace (very not true of all games), it doesn't pit students directly against one another (many American teachers do not believe that is wise), it is very difficult to be bad at bingo (in a way it is not difficult to be bad at e.g. spelling bees), there is an element of luck involved so the winner will almost certainly not be the strongest student in the class (some teachers believe this is wise), etc etc.
While the social features do use Facebook, I wouldn't say that it relies on them. If you know someone with username X, you can search for spotify:user:X to find their user-page. The facebook-integration "just" automates finding your friends for you.
that only does the current photo though, right?
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Yeah, that was the context in which the OP was trying to do it. And they're using auth tokens, which, if they're at all competent, cannot be reused to automate it. I'll see what can be done to improve it when I get back home.
Repost of repost of repost :)

Every now or then another URL of the Bingo Crad Creator sales.

But always interesting and nice to see some people sharing such detailed information on their business.

Thanks to the creator.
Those figures are hard to beat. Why do you wanna sell it then?
I'd prefer not to have to share their names, but honestly, if it means bringing a privacy violation to our attention, I will.

But yeah, for now, please see if you can come up with any other explanations.
Last night I was browsing the/an android marketplace and I have to say that from the screenshots most apps looked pretty horrible on the surface. And yes, aesthetics matter to me.
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And associated blog post:

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/05/do-know-evi...
> Although: Yahoo compliance forced me to pass on the first round of Twitter. Yet another reason I am annoyed at them.

Ouch. I would have thought you'd use a stronger word than "annoyed"!
It's gonna be interesting when Amazon brings out a color Kindle.
You seem to be reducing the amount of money going for advertising. Any special reason for this?

Thanks for the awesomeness of sharing all this stuff!
Consolidated conversion rate is a poor metric because it doesn't help me make decisions. If it goes up, is that because of something I did on-page, or is that because of something that one of my competitors did, or is that because of market seasonality, or is it because of a change in the Google algorithms which sent a different mix of people to me? I don't know, so looking at it tells me nothing.

See also: consolidated bounce rate.

The only place I look at conversion rates these days is in the context of either two comparable traffic sources (like two AdWords creatives) or across an A/B test.
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Why is it so unusual for businesses to be open about the income and expenses?
Also, don't make state required, most countries don't have them.
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Well, I think if your conversion rate is going down or up, something has changed and you must investigate what has changed. Agreed that conversion rate, by itself, doesn't yield much information but compared to past or across segments, it can yield a lot of insights.
What do you need the postal codes for? How are you going to use them?
So, this is kind of off topic, but the guys from Tradebot also run a local venture fund called Tradebot Ventures (http://tradebotventures.com) that the last company I worked at was funded through. The founder, Dave Cummings, also founded a stock exchange here in Kansas City called Bats Exchange, where one of my brothers works.
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What do you do at google?
Best one yet!

There actually is a service that lets you make a free phone call after watching an ad, called Bondd (Dutch): http://bondd.nl/bondd/phone/index.html
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I am not sure selling privacy is such a great idea. People tend to see privacy as more of a right then a privilege and facebook's actions of late has been viewed as a violation of these rights. To ask users to pay to keep their content private would probably make matters worse and send facebook on a similar path to the one mugabe took zimbabwe on.

I think the premium services model is an interesting one however. This could provide an additional revenue source for facebook but I think it raises an interesting question. Are the users of facebook more valuable to the company as customers or as products. Or in other words, is there more money to be made in advertising than in premium services?

With all the brain power and talent of the people at facebook it's likely that these ideas and more have already been considered and in the initiatives that the company has taken recently shows which model they prefer.
> Rolling out updates to production without testing them first is a fail

Deploying McAfee in the first place to all those terminals is a painful process by itself, yet many people do it because of the "extra" security it provides. When you can't trust something like McAfee for your production, then you're doing something wrong, and that's not the lack of testing upgrades to McAfee ;)

IMHO, the WTF here is that they've used Windows in the first place for what are in essence dumb terminals that help them manage drive-through orders ... for that you can always deploy a highly customized and minimal Linux OS, with most of the ports blocked and with a minimal number of services running, with reduced capabilities and enhanced with Linux SE if you're a security freak ... making the area of attack for any potential threat a lot smaller.

Then you wouldn't need a piece of shit like McAfee to handle your security ... all anti-viruses lately are pieces of shit IMHO.

> The real issue here has nothing to do with Linux or Windows

I think it does. On that terminal they could've had a small Linux image providing a ssh server, whose purpose would be to boot into it in cases of emergency. And you can control a Linux instance a lot more efficiently remotely. Try doing that with Windows.
From my time working at McDonalds back in highschool I can tell you they had solved this problem already. The head machine in the back office was running AIX, and all the POS terminals netbooted a linux variant from it. There was also a secondary server which no one touched that did the most critical job of receiving, tracking and reporting orders. Windows on a dumb POS terminal? That just sounds like a straight up bad idea to me.
Check out the unicomp remakes. They work on Mac.

http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/
1. When I click buy I get an error that the security certificate is invalid

2. It would be nice to be able to view the clip associated with the song

3. I have a pretty high resolution. In a list of songs the first 10% of horizontal space is "Track". Most of the song titles don't fit in that space. Meanwhile 70% of the space is unused on the right. It's easy to fix by hand, but it would still be nice if it automatically adapted to screen size. You have to manually drag "Track" wider in every different view.

Very good UI overall.
Do you get many business proposals from friends or relatives that you consider bad or uninteresting? How do you tactfully reject them? In general, did you have relationships with friends or relatives that changed in a significant way once you acquired a non-trivial amount of wealth?
I think you have to know certain things like the person's fb id, album id, photo id to construct the URL. Or you have to be able to view the photo on FB to get that URL. In either case, who ever distributes the URL already had access to the photo. So that's more about trusting your "friends" to keep what they see private than trusting Facebook.
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i use usaa... WOOT.
> ... so the risk to you as a customer ...

If you are trying to differentiate yourself from other banks, I would stop referring to your users as "customers". CUs call them "members". I have always preferred "comrades".
That is the opposite of the truth, actually.

I just haven't done bookkeeping for 2010 yet, because a plugin I used on my bookkeeping page broke back in February, and I've been putting off fixing it.

My actual advertising budget is largely a factor of two things: Google AdWords algorithms and Google AdWords customer support. One of these two things I have a lot of love for, because it automatically matches my ads up with sites they perform well on, and I'd happily spend $100k if they'd let me. The other I have had some issues with, most recently that it frequently takes weeks or months for them to approve changes or additions to my ads, which does not help minimize the time through the learning loop at all.

I get really, really tired of having to argue /dev/null that I am not a gambling operation.
Ericsson headquarters are there, so it isn't like they're some backwater.

As for GIPS I've used their voice engine tech before at a startup company. It's pricey, but they do a good job with support and the components are well documented.
Because if you are successful it's asking for competition?
Maybe they met in secret to conspire against you.
Personally I'm actually happy about their decision (got one of the new 13"ers), battery life is more valuable to me than CPU performance.

Ideally they'd offer choice (as unlikely as that is for apple) between 10h batter time and i5 CPU.
Yes indeed, good point.

How would you share tracks with a friend that's not on facebook though? You won't be able to just drag&drop, as this doesn't work to a user's profile-view. Right?
The current 13in Macbook Pro has an i3 chipset. Did you mean you're waiting for them to get the i5? Arstechnica had a pretty solid article detailing why the current MacBook Pro 13in can't have an i5 without sacrificing the DVD drive. That article can be viewed here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/why-the-13-macbook...
We're still waiting for someone to do a nice replicate-my-existing-server offering.
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The best part:

"[...]we need to store three font files: One for Internet Explorer (.eot) one for embedded devices (.svg) and one for Firefox, Safari, Chrome et al (.ttf)."

Go IE!
Hey I don't get it.

What's the value of reading news at AlJazeera?
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This is a very NYC/big city centric view of this topic, but e.g. the way Dirty Harry resonated with the nation at large in 1971 will indicate how widespread this sense of crime and disorder went. As one of those "children of the '70s" who grew up in a small to medium sized town (45K) I can attest that the author is basically correct.
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I was really hoping to upgrade my now 3-generations ago Unibody 13"er because it's just too damn slow. Back then, I opted to pay the extra bucks and get the 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo for the "premium" model - it's so sad that that same CPU is still in the new models (albiet as the "base" and a 2.6GHz as the "premium").

I understand their conundrum though, it's not their fault.

The 13" design simply doesn't have room for a standalone graphics card, so they need to use an integrated video card. Due to licensing battles between nVidia and Intel (you'd think they'd give it a break in the face of the joint AMD-ATI competition), there are no Core iX motherboards manufactured with an nVidia chipset at the moment. So it's either dump the iX or dump nVidia, and they (sensibly) picked to remain with the nVidia platform.

Makes you really hate the stupid politics power plays done that prevent users from paying for and getting the best.