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XP support won't be around forever.

You're not kidding.

Windows 7 SP1 is currently in beta. Once it ships, you will no longer be able to downgrade Win 7 to XP, which is going to make it extremely difficult to legally buy a new XP license.
Yeah, right now the algorithm subtracts out smooth areas, leaving sharply defined areas mostly alone. I could look into handling blackboard drawings if there is enough interest. Good point about the consistency with the email, I'll have to make them the same. Thanks for the feedback and the ideas, thanks!
Excellent start! I like the way the website is set up, and the videos seem to be high quality.
With mandatory two-year contracts, that makes for potential unhappiness.
Here's a before and after test, looks like it needs some tuning for images that are not as low contrast

http://sprng.me/154k6

p.s. that's a springpad link, awesome to just share those stuff from your phone
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Why do people think it is unreasonable to not support a nearly 10 year old Operating System? Safari 5 is not going to run on OS X 10.1 and in all honesty why would anyone expect it to?
It will look suspiciously similar to the Scripting Language Design and Implementation class that I'll be teaching.

This kind of stuff also showed up in my program analysis and advanced compiler classes, too.

One of the class projects was to implement first-class macros, and we used an interpreter that looked a lot like the one from this article:

http://matt.might.net/articles/metacircular-evaluation-and-f...

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> Maybe in the future,

what are the criteria for this future?
I have no problem with people trying to do this in principle. I really don't care enough, but other people can.

The symbol "tau", however, is an especially poor choice for a trigonometric symbol, because it's also used for torque. You won't get many physics teachers to change over if every time you try to calculate a torque from a force and radius, you run into a symbol conflict.
Be glad you didn't go to school 20 years ago. I had to build a Lisp-1 REPL in Pascal on an IBM mainframe without a debugger for my programming languages class.

(I also had to walk to class barefoot in the snow uphill both ways)
Ask HN: How to ensure my logo is unique?
I am working to develop a personal logo. Is there a search engine which will find basically similar images? I believe TinEye and the like require photographic similarities for a match.

I want to ensure that whatever I end up with is unique and non-infringing, but I can't trust myself not to subconsciously plagiarize.
Has Oracle been a disaster for Sun's open source?
e^(tau*i/2)+1=0 ???

Ewwww, yuck.
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You're operating under the wrong definition of "wrong". Axioms and definitions simply exist, but we are not therefore obligated to suspend all judgment on which ones are better for some purpose.

I can reformulate all of physics to accept the Earth as a constant reference frame. It will be isomorphic to current physics based on being set in inertial reference frames, and therefore every bit as "correct" as conventional physics. There will be no place where conventional and Earth-centric physics will disagree about the result of an experiment. However, Earth-centric physics is wrong. It produces terrifically complicated equations for even simplified versions of predicting the orbit of a planet around a distant star. The speed of light is anisotropic. If you really get down to specifying things precisely it has to include rather a lot of kludgy compensations for variations in the Earth's rotation that are nevertheless perfectly definable. It isn't a useful way to approach physics. It is "wrong".

The previous paragraph isn't metaphorical. I am not saying "it is theoretically possible to reformulate all of physics to be Earth centric". I'm saying that one can in fact mechanically translate all physics equations into such a framework, and similar transforms occur all the time (although with better cause). I'm not just being rhetorical, though of course I am, it is also literally true. There is a set of equations that corresponds to the reference frame I am describing.

We select our representations of equations for two major reasons that I can see: One, to minimize the number of symbols necessary to express the concept. "distance = velocity x time" encodes a number of assumptions into it to shorten it, including a wrong idea about reference frames, but we still teach it because it's simpler than the relativistic version (and a hell of a lot simpler than the Earth-centric version!). Second, to enhance the human understanding of the situation being represented by the equation. That's not entirely separate, obviously, but they're not quite the same.

And I would argue tau wins on both fronts, and I for one plan on adopting it in my code. It's better.
I disputed a $0.10 charge with my ISP and got it taken off the bill.
It's true that they claim in one specific section that it's "lighthearted". However, that doesn't change the fact that I don't think this is a helpful way of making the argument. Truth and falseness is already being co-opted enough that I don't think anything pushing that trend further should be encouraged. In this case, the "gain" certainly does not outweigh the loss in encouraging this view of "wrong".
My fiance did so well at camping that he also became my co-founder :)
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A lot of early PayPal founders probably cashed out to the tune of a million or two bucks.

That's not enough money to retire, but it is enough money to take a risk on your own startup.
The original is here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1468341

Although it doesn't say so clearly, this was intended as a summary of the (rather long) original, and was submitted before the author realised the original had been submitted.
> We have so many people today who needs aren't being met and still aren't contributing.

can you clarify this? their needs aren't met because they have no ability to contribute to the labor market..
Yeah, now Taleb is betting on the big random event, but what if the unexpected thing is that the unexpected thing never happens?
I'm in NY and am looking for someone for a project we're starting. You can reach me at careers [at] skillfullydone.com

Cheers,

Alex
Request of HN: When submitting a video, please prefix the title with [video].
I go to HN to read. I enjoy reading. I don't enjoy watching a video where some guy talks about something in an inarticulate manner because he didn't write a concise script ahead of time. I'd rather read an article than watch a video.

More to the point: May we please start a new convention whereby we prefix [video] to news items which link to a page having a video but substantially no article to read?

Thanks. :)
NYT now also has an article about this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/us/29scotus.html
Nor are BCE and CE all that commonly used.
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Excellent post! Also check out his survey of notebooks that are nice to use as journals (http://randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/06/01/sweet_decay.htm...). And I thought I was the weird one, obsessing about details like these. One important thing he forgot, though: the smell of the paper.
Except BC/AD -> BCE/CE is a label change, not a numbering change, and it's arguably for largely P.C. reasons; conforming to P.C. is the "in" thing. We in America have also changed from Indians to Native Americans to American Indians to Indigenous Peoples to whatever, and N* to Black to Colored to African American to something supposedly unoffensive while still defining the same group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

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edit in response to edits: I too agree with preferring BC/AD, they're the same size and look more different. BCE/CE both end in "CE", and the similarities between "B" and "E" don't help :\ And I see BCE more-ish in recent history books, but not much outside there (though there aren't qualifiers for most things I read, it's all too recent).

I'm voting for positive values == CE and negative values == BCE. They're already numbered that way, just adopt the frickin' sign instead of the suffix! Nearly everything becomes easier, left-to-right hints at relative age prior to even seeing the number, and parsing from a computer standpoint is as easy as to_i().
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It doesn't, but it gives new areas which need more manpower for advancement. Sure these areas would also like skilled workers, but it could become viable if government allowed it to be in essentially a work for welfare program, so you still hav the skilled rich supporting the poorer unskilled just they are now being put to work to the best of their abilities.
Two things come to my mind.

1st is that it seems a bit early in Windows 7's life for Microsoft to start promoting vaporware for the next version. I would prefer to see WinFS finished. Or, at least, something that brought NTFS into current times.

And the second things is that waking up a computer on ambient movement/proximity sensor and using face recognition to... recognize the user seem a little bit too obvious to be patentable.
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Did you get all the way down to here?
http://tauday.com/#sec:euler_s_formula

e^(i*tau) = 1

Much nicer that way.
I think Mourinho will finally give that club the stability it needs either by bringing new players, not particularly the big stars, but those who are able to play in the context of a team, or he will just take the big stars out of their pedestal and make them work if they really want a place in the team.
A challenge: get something comparable to macros out of Forth.
No, no, no. Your Earth-centered physics is not wrong. It's perhaps "bad", or "awkward", "clumsy" or "suboptimal", but not wrong. The word wrong should be reserved for factually incorrect statements (unless you are discussing morals), otherwise it's been diluted to meaninglessness.

It's better.

See, you already agree with me. It's not "right", it may be "better" (though I question that fact, too.)
I merely point out the opportunity cost of lost human capitals due to wars. I also pointed out the rationing and economic hardship of civilians at home.

Don't tell me that you don't think a dead soldier is not a capital loss. Don't tell me that economic scarcity in time of wars is economic prosperity.
My source (chalkboard) image wasn't great (dark, low contrast), but I got better results from the service by doing an "invert" before sending it on.
While I applaud IE team for doing an amazing job in recent time, I can't help but point out the fact that their motivation for making IE more compliant has to do with selling more of their products and perhaps had little to do with making the best product. And they did it only after they realized that they are loosing browser market share by large number in a very short period of time.

I am not suggesting that mozilla/Opera/Chrome developers don't care about money; but making the best browser for them was not a reactionary motivation to their low browser market share. At least for Opera, they have been right up there, or as long as I can remember, as the most standard compatible browser. Yet their browser market share never went above 1% (statcounter). And they are still making it better, recently developed the fastest JS engine.

My point being. I can't trust a company/developer who is reactionary to the market share and their profit line as opposed to doing their job good in the first place. AFAI am concerned, as long as I have the choice, I will never use IE.
Because 2 doesn't solve the problem the problem of poverty. I don't find that particularly mysterious or dishonest.
I'd love to see one for Silicon Valley just for comparison.
Where did you find this "co-founder"? It really sounds like what you want is an employee you can boss around. Did you ask around for a geek you can give requirements to like so so many other "business guys" do who think they have a great idea for a company? You've got a co-founder, not a lackey you can tell they're "allowed" to sleep in an extra hour in the morning, if they absolutely need it.

Read what the top-rated comments here say, then read them again. Then read Michael Lopp's book "Managing Humans". Luckily for you, you asked his question in the right place. You're getting real advice here that you absolutely need to take to heart if you want to avoid a whole raft of problems and probable failure.

Good luck to you if you get your head on straight and good luck to your co-founder if you don't.
Indeed, the other solution is true holograms, that people have been playing with for years.

Those actually physically have the light reflect to your eye from different positions in the "z" direction.

They seem to have a number of techical problems though that would prevent them from being ubiquitous.
Why won't you be able to downgrade? Afaik, there's no technical reason (and my day job is working on said SP)
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More reasons why banks / credit cards should be issuing restricted-value, one-time-use card numbers for purchases. Or at least the option to do so. Easier to control and revoke, and easier to identify fraud like this (a number 4 years out of date? * flags go up * ).
2 weeks unless you have a high level position.

Also note that that job offer is highly subject to going "poof" when there's that long a delay to your first day of work. Certainly don't give notice before you're seriously committed (e.g. bought a new house "over there").
Seems more like an ad then a case study. No technical details of adding the multiplayer either so I would call BS on the title too.
Yes, like Posterous has shown, simple can win you converts even if it's lacking functionality.
Agreed with what everyone else is saying. A startup is not just a corporation writ small. In a startup, the only think that matters is results. Your complaints about morale and "presentation" don't belong in this world.

Let me ask you this: would you be willing to accept a much lower quality of work just to have him come in at 9am? If not, then why are you pushing the issue?
"In many cases, Karelis says, diminishing marginal utility certainly does apply:"

Either way, I'd like to know why exactly he and the article are crap. I'm not completely sold on it myself, but you've really only managed to appeal to authority so far.
I thought he addressed that in the paper rather well. Did you disagree with that section of the paper, or were you ignoring it?
One of the best advises I have read. You should elaborate on this. Maybe as a blog post. I think it applies to most jobs where you do not have to deal with the customers in real time. Many managers could learn a thing or two from your comment.
Awesome! Would you be willing to share a chalkboard pic? I don't have access to one...thanks for the invert tip!
Neither http://www.gazopa.com/ or http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/ require photographic similarities, I believe.
yeah open source part of your work. it should help a ton of people especially if it's a niche. plus it looks great on the resume
Ok, does sound like I do need get more information up about what it does.

The product I'll be selling is the hosted search solution. The idea is that while you can get an embedded site search via Google or other search providers, I'll be offering my customers more than just a way to provide search results for their viewers.

The concept is that these days businesses are publishing content not only to their websites, but also to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other sites. My solution allows them a way to unscatter all that content, putting it one place for their viewers. Combined with the RSS feed display, it also gives them an out of the box portal with all their content in one place.

It also allows people to create topic based search solutions as well. I'll create and post links to examples of those when I make them later this week. One idea I'll be publishing is a Conservation Search, where search results will be provided from The Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace and WWF, while also showing their most recent content from Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.

In the future I'll be adding more providers for customers to add to their portal, as well as eventually building my own crawler and search indexer, which for a fee will allow customers to really customize what gets indexed and how search results are displayed.
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To be fair, they could build the backdoor into the phone when it's manufactured. No need to use Google as their middleman.

All you need is a routine in the radio firmware that recognizes a specific signal and either turns off the radio or flood the towers with traffic. Better yet - request instructions from a server and deploy resources according to the plans they get - communications meltdown, massive DDoS on critical services, you name it.

And since it's in the radio controller, it's pretty much hidden from view. You can root your Android phone or jailbreak your iPhone all you want, the radio controller is pretty much a separate computer.
The tone of your post ("or 10 AM if he absolutely needs an extra hour of sleep") indicates to me that you might have an unhealthy perspective on sleep. Sleep is incredibly important to the consolidation of memory, and research indicates that the vast majority of consolidation might occur around the very last REM cycle! In other words, his creativity, intelligence, and memory will all be improved through extra sleeping.
The description of "malicious" seems a little nebulous.

I have never heard of an Android application that breaks out of the sandbox. When people talk about "malicious" applications, these are apps that don't actually do what they promise to do, and because of an overly generous user (who okayed excessive permissions) they exploit trust.

This is similar to a web site saying "Hey, add me to your trust zone" (in Internet Explorer) "and I'll be extra awesome", and then exploiting that access.

Another poster mentioned that location has a special confirmation security grant, which is interesting to learn, however for other accesses there is no guarantee that the app is doing everything in your best interest.
> The government is borrowing to invest in and ensure the continuity of it's economy, which is it's source of tax revenue.

Saddling future generations of individuals and businesses with debt inhibits growth, it doesn't promote it. The revenue to pay the interest on that debt has to come from higher taxes down the road, which means higher tax rates for businesses and individuals, which means lower growth.

That's an interesting example about student loans, because that's exactly what's happening right now. For many years people have been blindly borrowing money because they too claimed they were investing in themselves and they too were their own source of revenue. Guess what? Many are now realizing the debt they incurred didn't generate anywhere near the income they needed to pay off said debt. There are threads on HN all the time discussing exactly this about recent graduates.
"And, in fact, they seemed to be the better team against Ghana."

Hardly. The US was utterly out-classed in the first half. They didn't push their attacks as hard as the Ghanans, and they couldn't get their defense in place reliably. Things evened up in the second half and overtimes, but it never felt to me like there was a point where the US dominated the game.
Ask HN: Anyone ever scan the barcode on an airline boarding pass?
I just got a 2d scanner for work and noticed that the SW boarding passes have 2d PDF417 barcodes on them. I scanned it and found 197 characters of data. Some of it is self explanatory (my name, confirmation numbers, destinations, etc). Here it is:

M1TESSAR/MATTHEW D EQR2L8Q DENLAXWN 1420 180T017A0017 125>30B0WW0179BWN 0E 0T0101L^460MEQCIC4E6a7 GJNwAfTHnyxgY3VQdsPORVOuPZifjf51WrzqAiA3Zp59 Vw5M1YOUc4snjSh86yeyVK0LxthZdoZBBT/2A==

It seems to get more interesting as the string goes on. Anyone have any ideas on the encoded data?
Actually they could do it with iPods too, as soon as they connect to a wi-fi network or sync with iTunes.
speaking of etiquette I totally lost my cool in a post yesterday after sync issues ate it (now notes on iphones auto syncs and can sometimes lose information and revert).

after the post (f u ios devs) I felt some regret.
but it's one thing if I choose to waste my time (like on HN), it's entirely different when someone else does so.
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- I agree, it looks unprofessional: then hire some other guy to do the morning show.

- As a night owl myself: I can work in the morning (at least just enough to look professional), but it's like asking you to wake up in the middle of the night and work. At 3am: are you efficient? I guess not.

Contrarily, when I'm on my own schedule (awake after 10pm), when I get in the zone, it's like adrenalin in my veins. Can't be compared.

Don't be that guy, there is no compromise here.
I think you're looking at this backwards.

bcat is a utility that pipes standard input to a browser, treating the browser as standard output.
Thanks for the feedback.

It's kind of focussed on the players/connections during the first two weeks after release and how many of them found opponents, how the dev saw an increase in ad revenue, etc. I think many developers are curious if players find opponents because there are few users online in the beginning, and I wanted to address this.

This multiplayer engine is the project/startup I'm working on since months, just recently having started private beta. I'd love to get more feedback and additional beta testers. Perhaps I'm too biased to write such a post. Next time I write a post I'll try to go more in depth on the technical side. What kind of details would you be interested in?

Edit: I've updated the title with "Flock" to better reflect what it is about.
Do these super-special repositories have a decent API?
From what I read in the article, the reason they were able to do this is because they were able to maximize both the autonomy of groups/individuals while also maximizing interchange and multiplication of value between them. (I hesitate to use the word synergy as it has become a cliche, but that would be a correct term.)

The top-down corporate autocracy can often maximize synergy, but do so at the cost of individual/group autonomy. The free market maximizes autonomy, but does so at higher costs of transactions between groups. The wildly successful company can maximize both autonomy and synergy.
I was trying to find a nightly build, but it seems they aren't available here http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

Is 3.7a6pre a 4.0 nightly?
Well if I wrote a malicious app my first approach would be to kill that connection :)

So it is something of a false security.

Besides; to fit with the whole "ethos" of the Android system it should be an optional feature (App Kill and App install).
Apple has rejected some apps for uploading the users contacts to a third party server, using private APIs, etc. It seems like they do dig a little deeper. Who knows if that's enough to stop all malicious software but considering we've seen a number of malicious Android apps (fake Bank of America app, proof of concept botnet) it does seem like Apple's review process is providing some real benefits to go along with it's real disadvantages.
There's a section about that: http://tauday.com/#sec:euler_s_formula

e^(tau * i) = 1

e^(pi * i) = -1

Which looks better?
Obrigado, Mario!