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Why are you implying that less fonts is a good thing? Just because someone might misuse fonts, that doesn't mean we should force everyone to use just what you think is okay. Magazines use all kinds of fonts and they typically look a hell of a lot better than most websites.
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No, I don't mind using their algorithms (I'm sure they are correct anyways). I just mind that I can't tinker the algorithm to be optimized for my special use case scenario.

You can have accuracy and scalability. It's just that normally you run these types of things in memory on one machine, not on tens to hundreds of thousands of machines. So these algorithms have to be decoupled and that isn't easily done (but I'm sure Google figured it out a long time ago).
Google, usability! I should be able to go from a font page to your really nice configuration page that lets me control it even more: http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview

Dammit Google, why did I have to search my history for a link to this awesome page. Sometimes, I swear people ignore intuitive things that are just too obvious.
This is a great summary of why you get encoding errors in Ruby 1.9, and why #force_encoding is not the catch-all solution. I've lost count of how many times I've had people request that I run #force_encoding on all strings passed to Haml templates.
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I'm sorry, complete goof on my part, I was not aware of any fugues before the baroque period, and I saw Bach as their main proponent and originator, which was apparently completely wrong.

As for the reference back, I meant to the principle of a fugue, as an original form.

And not that original :)

The wikipedia piece gives me a little bit of cover, it says "It was in the Baroque period that the writing of fugues became central to composition", but then goes on to list a whole slew of composers that got there before Bach did. So it's not even a fig-leaf.

Thanks for the correction!
Also, I find the use of the word "implement" on this page hilarious. It's dropping the same font-face crap thats been in HTML5 for months into a webpage. The only difference is that it's hosted by Google.

Then again, Twitter was abuzz with everyone freaking out about DnD in html5. Guess if Google's not holding peoples' hands they might as well be useless. I also saw a tweet where someone asked if the REST API would be available for the iPhone. I facepalmed.
Ah! Discontinuous, that nails it perfectly. I couldn't find the right word, but that's exactly the feeling, it breaks up. The best I could come up with was 'random sentences from a book'.
True, but the second half of the questions require me to know exactly what a PhoneHalo is / does, as well as some specifics about pricing. So I did have trouble answering those, which may skew your data.

Having said that, I generally don't lose stuff, and I don't have a smartphone, so I'm hardly target market.
Weirdest thing, when I read HN through protopub it wants me to log in again ?

edit: hm, protopub.com proxies all requests ?
But three years ago google didn't have this, you could have cornered the market in those three years.

Not doing something because 'google might do it' is not a very good reason.
Another notch in the "soon every web page you visit will cause your browser to talk to Google" spider's web.
You can do ANYTHING with HTML5.

The only limit... is YOURSELF.
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What a fantastic blast from the past. Thank you!
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> What's more revolting is that Zuckerberg agrees to do the work for them and then stalls them so he can steal their idea. You call it smart, I call it being a shady douche bag.

There are far more engineers burned by business guys stalling and not paying them then there are business guys burned by shady developers.

To put it another way, I am much more scared of a howitzer than of a derringer: there's very high profile and tragic cases of people being killed by derringers (Abraham Lincoln), but there are much more cases of people being killed by howitzers (that we don't even think twice of them).
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But wonderful validation of your idea, no?
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The last thing you should do is look at patents. If you knowingly infringe a patent, your "willful" infringement opens you up to triple damages. It's actually better to not know.
That's true but my point was that people manage to learn enough to be able to get ideas across kinda like how most people can hum simple tunes.
It's meant to address original findability issues with online apps, not launchability.

The wonderful thing about app stores like android Marietta and the iPhone appstore is not that they add an icon to tour desktop.

The wonderful thing they provide is a unified way to find, compare, purchase and launch apps. Something the web - and web applications - both have been missing for a while. It's the logical extension to Google's mission statement of indexing the world's data.

The only difference is this time it's adding applications to the mix; seeing as the web is slowly (but surely) converging with the desktop, this is actually a bold and brilliant move.
I was actually agreeing with you, in a way--the ConnectU people shouldn't and can't shrug this off and build something new, because they couldn't build anything in the first place.
This is Microsoft: "Beyond mere perversity" should really be their motto.
The "AI API" is the dream application. Just imagine: you get to implement (and even discover) cutting-edge prediction algorithms, make them scale, and expose them via your protocol-of-choice. No frontends to write, no Joe Luser to support, just beautiful math and hardcore infrastructure engineering.

There are reasons this hasn't been done before. I don't think it's a viable startup idea. Think about the capital you would need to even get something like this off the ground. Doing the AI API 'right' would require a supercomputer, if you take it far enough.

A guy can dream though. Maybe doing high-frequency trading would get you most of the way there.

IMHO, go for the niche: elsewhere in this thread Directed Edge was mentioned, and they are a good example of a business tackling a well-defined problem with exciting tools and techniques.
In theory, somebody else can produce a wave server you can use, and it'll connect to other wave servers...a bit like SMTP servers.

However, nobody's produced a working server yet.
"Thank you CrunchBase and _Charlise_ Rose"

Thought I'd point out :)
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Overkill. Should've used an animated gif.
I read it as something like a new python vm, not a xen vm.
Wondering how long till these show up in Google docs.
hahaha this is awesome :) I love the comments in the source...
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Down-voted for factual inaccuracy. From the very first paragraph:

>Fortunately, it seems I was able to acquire access to the VP8 spec, software, and source a good few days before the official release and so was able to perform a detailed technical analysis in time for the official release.

The only "clue" he's missing is whether or not VP8 is buried under a flood of patent lawsuits. Since that's something only time will tell, I think it's perfectly reasonable for him to add that qualification to his claim that VP8 is an upgrade from Theora and Dirac.
Any stats as to how many people have reddit clones based on the codebase?
FUNNY: exploitsourcing isn't.
We do this too. Another nice advantage is changes to the production machine state are all in source control. We deploy on EC2 + our own .deb. The entire .deb recipe is checked into source, right next to the rest of our source code. There's no wondering about when a specific change got added to the AMI.
Except that people who use web apps don't give a shit about the code running the site. They're using a transient app over the network as the service over a stateless mostly-idempotent protocol -- they care only about responses coming out of it, the code that generates the responses is completely irrelevant.

Stallman is incapable of understanding this, perhaps because he simply has never used any such services. Users want to have and control access to their data. That's it. The AGPL's only effect is to underscore how inadequate it is at doing anything for end-users -- by taking Freedom Zero away from operators, it leaves the exploitation of data and network effects as their only means to non-menial profit.
Yes freedom is good. Slander, libel, and shouting "Fire!" (falsely) in a crowded theater are bad.

A delicate dance indeed.
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Awesome! I worked on the inertial navigation system for Insight Racing's entry into the 2nd DARPA Grand Challenge as my senior design project in college. We implemented a Kalman filter, but I'm not sure we got all the bugs out as it didn't work very well. I sure wish I had known about this little doc at the time!
Running Word 2010 off a SSD, I found startup to be near instantaneous. I was impressed with how responsive it was for an application with such a huge feature set.
Basically what I see is they implemented an open platform for running classification algorithms that gives discrete categories as output. Automatic selection from multiple machine learning methods - maybe just simple cross-validation.
Interesting - a similar auction in the US net ~$15bn...
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Grellas, thank you for your time and interesting insight. Despite that probably your writing is more suitable for a blog post than a comment (over 2000 words).
I'm sure a lot of Unix old timers would claim that my Ubuntu desktop also isn't very Unixy. I'm not complaining though.
For one - The 2$ ipod app comes very handy in school and saved me the ~70$ I might have needed otherwise to get a TI calculator for math class.
typo - fixed :)

as for LateX/python stuff - the article is addressing the needs of the average writer, of which those who know anything resembling python are a small small subset.
One of the approaches they're using is generating lasers that follow a sinosoidal wave. Do any of you smarter than I have information as to why these sinosoidal lasers would be less affected by atmospheric conditions?
I thought lip dubbed videos went out of style a few years ago? Still, it was ok.
On the one hand, it's tempting to dismiss all of the negative vibes about Zuckerberg as just haters latching onto a runaway success. On the other hand, I don't remember anything like they about the Google guys, or Yahoo. (I remember it about the MySpace guys, and it turned out to be mostly true.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace ?
Thanks for correction. I treat NDAs as enforceable, I stick by my word. Just to be clear: I am entirely against IP theft (taking actual source code from a company).

Nonetheless the idea of "social network for X" is not unique and deserves no protection similar to what a chip architecture or a machine learning algorithm may receive. Not that there aren't ambiguous examples e.g., using SVMs to categorize users of a social network or using an emulated RISC architecture to profile the GUI front-end of a web application (such as a social network) but in the cases the idea is not very useful without the engineering chops to put it into use.
Or make it automatic or at least default for https? If you're using https, the only thing you have to hide is your search term, right? And that's what's being exposed to Amazon, or whoever else is seeing your URL along the way.
That really doesn't address the need the article is speaking to -- the need for a writing program for the average writer that addresses writing concerns rather than formatting concerns.
Your last line - seems more like insecurity to me than anything else.
I spent a few weeks there. They kept me locked in a room, and there was a slot through which papers with chinese writing were shoved in. I found a book of instructions, which mostly involved changing the writing around and pushing it back out the slot.
I'm consistently surprised by how supportive or neutral a position the tech community (or Silicon Valley tech media) takes towards the Winklevoss brothers when they provide an avenue to attack Facebook or Zuckerberg.

These guys seem to be the antithesis of what Silicon Valley claims to be all about. They wield the benefits of a privileged American elite background masterfully, having top-brand lawyers work on their behalf whilst they attend top academic institutions and train for the Olympics. It's a far cry from Silicon Valley's purported do-it-yourself, boostrap-iterate-and-execute meritocracy. (This is not an ad hominem attack, just an account of apparently differing values/ideals.)

Yet, here folks are, on Hacker News, dispassionately contemplating whether they deserve $30 million or $60 million. Most folks working 80+ hour weeks on innovative startups, no matter how talented or even lucky they are, will never earn that kind of money.

If this were not connected to Facebook/Zuckerberg, I suspect that any discussion community like this would be absolutely overflowing with vitriol towards these characters.
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It's surely innovative and a great product, but there's very little on the iPhone that hasn't been done elsewhere before. Apple merely had the design and engineering talent to put together a coherent product based on those ideas.

If these engineers left with only vague product design ideas in their heads (e.g., use triangulation for location awareness, use an accelerometer for rotating the screen) and built their own iPhone work-alike (which is difficult work), I'd side with them as well.
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Is it me or do they have a lot of employees for what they are doing? Especially when all the work is outsourced.
If it affects other people's ability to work with him, it matters.
Thanks for the link! I'll be sure to check it out.
This is pretty sweet, and a natural progression of Google's entry into both the handset and browser markets.

Of course, if the Android market is any indicator, nobody's going to be making a lot of money on this thing any time soon. Still a great idea, though.
Really surprised by the number of employees for 99designs.com - I would have figured 4-5 max.
a few days is not enough to determine whether it infringes on any patents, sometimes it take year for a single patent.
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The current design was my abomination, and really doesn't really inspire confidence.

I'm bootrapping and so would prefer someone that's either trying to build a portfolio, or can provide a design for not a lot of money.

I'd love to start marketing and advertising the website, but I feel like in today's short attention span world - if I doesn't impress visually - user's won't be interested. Hence the need for a decent design.
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That makes sense now. I saw that text, but thought it was too far from those two files to indicate any connection.

if I had not fallen in love with programming I would have stuck to music.

I hear ya. There's a definite connection between programming & music (and/or mathematics and music) isn't there? I wish I had more time for music. I haven't touched it for half a decade now, and I'd really have to work to get even some of it back.

I haven't yet decided what I think of this Emily Howell thing. I think I'd like to hear an entire composition interpreted by a real player. These snippets don't really give enough of a dramatic arc so it doesn't seem like a fair way to compare them. To me a lot of the real Bach fugues don't really come together until the last few bars, and I wonder if any of these real pieces would be the same way.
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Really? Really? Ouch!

The rest of this article is interesting for the light it sheds on historical women in computing, but the bits where it talks about how the industry is lacking in some crucial way because there are few women range from unfounded to offensive.

Does anyone know of any evidence that the presence of women in a technical team affects results in any way (positive or negative)? It seems like "there are not enough women in computing" people frequently make the claim that more women will improve the field; has anyone measured to check?
> There are far more engineers burned by business guys stalling and not paying them then there are business guys burned by shady developers.

This is completely irrelevant. Even Zuckerberg knows that he blatantly ripped them off and stalled them so he could execute it himself. Why else would he settle for ~$65M (Err, I should say ~$35M)? Then to add insult to injury, he misrepresents the value of the stock in the settlement.

I might be singing a different tune if he hadn't agreed to do the work for them.
Indeed. If this analysis was on a blog, it would be internet-famous by the end of the week.
I strongly disagree. Writing and thinking of this caliber is most welcome within the comments, in my eyes. That said, nothing stops you from recycling it as a blog post too.

Thank-you Grellas.
I've been working on getting our simulation terminated while attracting a transcedent to upload everybody (giving us a bridge to outside the soon-to-be-terminated simulation).

Also, I'm waiting for SLAC to burn through their barrier and burrow through Palo Alto.
If you're developing in .NET, you might as well use as much of the Microsoft stack as possible. The benefit to using Microsoft stuff is the vertical consolidation and tight integration.

Otherwise, you'll be fighting against the grain. And the support community will be much smaller (i.e. .NET w/ OSS databases).
It would, actually.
It has been a while since I've been a newbie at Ruby/Rails, but back when I was a newbie, I was routinely shocked at how stupidly easy it was to do the same things I had been doing in Java... in a fraction of the time. You also get access to "the new hotness" a few years earlier than Enterprise Java does -- I was being warned off Memcached in Java by the MySQL guys at Sun ("Don't tell the bosses, but the Java client is not ready for prime time") literally two years after I had it in production at BCC.
Not yet, but I might set aside some time to do it. I'm impressed with the snippets, but I have a hunch that I'd be able to tell a generated work from the real stuff.
It's interesting to see how different people's complaint lists can be. I have my own list for Python (e.g., mutable/immutable/reference semantics/blah blah blah stuff messes me up all the time), but my list has almost nothing in common with the one in this article.

In particular, I've thought about the first issue -- range specifications -- off & on for years, and I've come to the conclusion that this writer is wrong; Python does ranges the right way. The crux of the matter, for me, is that sometimes includes-the-end feels right, and sometimes does-not-include-the-end feels right. However, sometimes includes-the-end is definitely wrong, but I don't know of any case where does-not-include-the-end is definitely wrong. So if you're going to pick one convention, then go with the one Python did; use it all the time, and you'll never have to wonder which one you're using. It is true that this convention takes some getting used to, but I think it results in fewer bugs in the long run.

Other advantages: b - a is the number of items in range(a,b); also range(a,b) and range(b,c) partition range(a,c) nicely.

BTW, I believe E. Dijkstra has an essay that also takes this position on range specifications; he probably explained it a lot better than I did.

As for Unicode, no one seems to know how to do it well. But this writer is talking about the Python 2 way of doing things. Python 3 has improved things, IMHO.
The problem with that quote is that there are no women programmers and there have never been any women programmers.

In every programming environment I've ever worked in the programmers were all guys. There were women clerks, women marketing types, and even women "power users", but no women programmers.

It's always been this way. Probably always will be. It's OK except that, for some silly reason, some people need to create an illusion that there are women programmers.
Johann Sebastian Bach was even viewed as conservative and old-fashioned in his time. He was more well known as a teacher of music, but not as a great composer.
The point of my comment is that unethical behavior, even when you're early 20s, will cause people to assume the worst with you. Facebook's current privacy policies and attitudes are alarming enough, but they're far more alarming when taken into context with Mark Zuckerberg's alleged past behavior.

Most people don't read full articles. They look at the headlines and make assumptions. Mark's put himself in a position where the assumptions that people make are going to be negative, and that's going to hurt his business, even if it's unfair.
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While not relevant to this particular problem, "Detection of Neutron Sources in Cargo Containers" is an interesting title...
Yes, that's true. Though some Emacs mode could go a long way to help you with writing concerns (and may or may not employ LaTeX somewhere).
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The clusterfuck with the ConnectU lawyers being fired by Facebook boggles my mind. I understand what happened, thanks to your excellent explanation, but I'm left wondering how usual is that? Was that something the Facebook lawyers were planning on, or is it more like when you happen to find your opponents Queen sitting out in the open and realize "Hey... I can just take it"?
Thanks.

I think the important thing is where you are.

Obviously it would have been great if you could have told him you forgave him.

But that doesn't mean you can't make peace with yourself. You probably did the best you could.
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What about the NativeClient and Unity3D apps in other browsers? Users will have to have NaCl installed as a plugin?
The problem is you can't recognize when someone is infringing a patent knowingly or not, based on what they're saying (unless they've got a request for licensing).

But here we're going in a total different direction. You're telling me that you shouldn't look at patents. Weren't the patents invented for being publicly accessible, so you can see if you infringe, and license them?

You can't see it, can you? You look at the patents, copy every feature of them, than incorporate your company somewhere where there aren't international copyright/patent agreements. Sure you can't have the same resources as everyone else, but you're free to create them too.
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