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When I first wrote programs for a Unix box I would think of the main program as the application. But there would almost always be some sort of shell script to wrap invocation. Sometimes also a cronjob. Maybe a watchdog restart daemon process, etc. Then my understanding expanded to really consider all of this working in concert as the application, even the OS and it's configuration, and any other service dependencies. Whatever had to be a certain way, manually configured or tuned or whatever, to achieve the desired application result.

I think that's also where the notion of error handling comes into play because it's obvious at that level that it's not enough to just handle exceptional cases gracefully inside the body of your main program(s), and in fact, you may not want to, you may want to let certain things percolate up and cause the process to exit, if only to achieve a uniformity in how you handle edge cases.
Yep, you'd be forced to think more about transactions. What activities needed to be carried out as a transaction, and for what activities it didn't matter. Because at any point the process could exit.
Moscow is one of the most expensive cities in the world. It's in the state of semi-permanent traffic jam, so you'll have to live close to subway. Corruption level is high.
Does Google really see Facebook as a threat? Maybe they could also fund Diaspora like they helped Mozilla. And it seems to me their "big splash" launches of late (App Engine, Docs, Wave, Buzz, checkout) end up underwhelming maybe because of the hype. Their successes (Gmail, maps, text ads) in my perception were more like "soft" launches in which they let the blogosphere and geeks in general do their promoting for them.
I'm 90% sure it's coincidence, but the fact that Apple decided to release their first iPhone bumper/case, and in iOS4 removed the field test mode that showed numeric signal strength, does make me wonder.

It's going to be interesting to see how this all turns out, but I'm disappointed in many of the news sites who are now badging it as an issue with displayed strength. I have an iPhone 4, live in an area with good signal strength, and "bridging the gap" with my finger absolutely does decrease voice quality and decimate data throughput.
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Sounds like the company is dying which explains why they don't want to pay for your Internet access. Regardless, you'll need Internet access to find your next gig.
Buttons don't work. Less realistic than reality. Lame.
Like. I have no interest whatsoever in the article, but this headline was paradoxically motivating for some reason. I really like it.

Don't get me wrong, the article is good and all that but the title informed the article pretty obviously, and I knew what was to come. But since I did know, that meant the title itself transfixed a little motivation to become a bigger failure in my own life.
If companies are forced to exit seed/VC funding market because there is excess capacity this is a good thing, it means the market is working and they will take their money and chase other returns.
Scientist who cured type I Diabetes in mice was denied funding for human trials
I think the release of the bumper case is much more likely because the iPhone now has twice as many glass surfaces, and those glass surfaces are not guarded from direct impact by a metal bezel like on the previous iPhones. If Apple expected reception problems before release they could've just bumped back the release date.
>> This project will only display correctly on a webkit browser and has only been tested in Google Chrome.

Honestly, if you know it will display in a webkit browser, is it that difficult to at least test in Safari before you put the page up?

Or at least a lot easier than drawing an entire iPhone in CSS, I might add.
Are you for real? I once heard a call-in show on abortion. A woman called-in saying she had a kid with one of those nasty diseases and described how tough it was yet how much she was glad she had the kid.
Disbanding of the team appears to have a lot to do with the anti-trust cases though.
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For the "Global Windows Live Mail users", it would be nicer if they used active users (signed in during the past 90 days) to compare. I know I have a few Windows Live email accounts sitting around that I haven't touched in forever.
IOS Icons in Pure CSS3
My favorite pizza place of all time - De Lorenzo's Tomato Pies in Trenton NJ - is on his "to be tasted" list. Can't wait to read his review because this guy seems to know a lot about the topic.
Qi gong, tai chi, and yoga qualify as themselves only if done with a conscious and meditative mindset.
Smartphone Evolution: US vs. Rest of the World
Microsoft seems to be working on it. They are pushing design HARD for their devs. Silverlight and WPF were designed with design in mind. I went to Mix a couple years ago and half the sessions there dealt with design or user experience in some way.

Their hardware is not shabby either...zune, xbox 360 (well hardware quality aside), mice, keyboards.
I've seen a few recommendations for that in this discussion. Never read any books by him, but in my experience reading newspapers over the years, reading oped articles by him, it seemed clear to me where his political affiliation lies, at least with respect to the main two US political parties. Did you see any of his political slant in this book? Or did he seem to stay neutral/impartial?
Well, it's not really FarmVille. Basically they guessed on a reasonably timeout before, and now they have more data.

I bet any game would cause them to need a longer timeout.
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Ask HN: What keyboard do you use?
I find a lot of keyboards to be of crappy quality when it comes to prolonged usage. So I'm wondering if there's something programmer-friendly (as in LOTS of typing).
Indeed. Same in Northern Europe. South guys won't ever feel that wonderful warm spring touch after cold winter
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never underestimate the power of the middle-aged mom cyber-farmer demographic
Did you read the source code? They're using 50 &middot; elements as a speaker grill. That's about as close to ANSI art as you can get and still call it CSS.

My point is: With enough DIVs you can render anything in CSS (see examples below, including an entire animated Spiderman cartoon). Does it take artistic talent to draw something with CSS3? Sure. Is there lots of effort involved? Absolutely. But worth knocking something else off the front page for?

http://www.optimum7.com/internet-marketing/web-development/p...

http://31o5.com/2010/05/05/doraemon-with-css3/

http://admixweb.com/demos/ipodcss3/

http://sxsw.beercamp.com/

http://jonraasch.com/blog/drawing-with-css
Well said. I'm almost as die-hard anti MSFT as they come (example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1462403 ), but I love my XBox360 (and the first XBox before that). They've done a great job with it, even through the hardware issues early on. I've been through three, but I was only without the machine for about two weeks total, and I didn't pay a dime to get them fixed.
I Miss You Desktop Wallpapers, I Miss You Pictures, I Miss You Photos
Love is in the air with emotions tugging at the heartstrings. If your love is not attributed with proper expressions then it will never render the cry of your soul. There are various ways; people can put forward their feelings to their loved ones. Here is the collection of the most inspiration I Miss You Wallpaper and Photos and few of those selected and most amazing I Miss You Desktop Wallpapers, I Miss You Photo Collection, and I Miss You Pictures.
And here are the iOS icons in CSS 3: http://graphicpeel.com/cssiosicons
I'd love to see a single site where this kind of thing is aggregated. At least for famous programmers or leaders in the industry (eg. Guido, Linus, Carmack), at a bare minimum, though regular joes could participate as well.
His main assertion is twofold: 1) that 'silly number of companies are being seeded' (what is the threshold for silly?) and 2) that valuations are being driven up as a result of the increased competition.

Reading through the comments, however, one sees very well-known / respected seed investors all saying the same thing: valuations are actually quite low, and the dollar amounts of each investment are also so low that, not only is there very little competition between funds, many times they end up co-investing in many deals.
IE was different, just to be different (and to trash the standards). WebKit is different because it is on the bleading edge.

IE will at some point in the future catch up. IE 10 or 11 will probably be able to render this example correctly. Those sites that only works with IE depends on IE-quirkiness (aka bugs) which never will be implemented in any other browser.

So IE will catch up to this. Other browsers would never "catch up" to IE's weirdness. And IE never lead the direction of html development. WebKit does (e.g. transitions, 2D and 3D transformations, css animations).

I use these examples to show my customers that it is good to give users with advanced browsers a nicer design than what is possible (easy) with IE 6. That they should leave the idea that a website should look exactly the same in all browsers. That a sprinkle of css can improve a design in FF and WebKit, but would take huge amount of pngs in IE 6. Much more value for their money because adding a bit of css is much faster than fighting IE6.
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You might be interested in this: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/build-your-own-tablet...
Normally it's the diabetics who make such claims about the industry--- it's a surprise (a pleasant one) to hear such come from a possible solution source! As a long time type-2 diabetic, I'm still happy for ANYTHING that may someday help my fellow type-1s...
When did the feds decide they want to compete with Facebook Connect, Oauth, OpenID, etc.?
Python's alright, but it made me work too hard for what it does. I tried hard to like it but using Python for writing scripts I was constantly asking it, "why are you making me do extra work? Perl doesn't make me do half the crap that you ask of me" (ex. regexes, quoting, string interpolating). Also, Perl has the CPAN, so, I fired Python and use Perl.
You could have said the same thing about Myspace.
This 'crash protection' was closing every flash thing I tried to run, from Hulu to the simplest sample apps in the Adobe LiveDocs. Worst 'fix/feature' ever. I've almost never had problems with Flash before this...
For what it's worth, the Campaign for Liberty has compiled a list of videos and books on economics at http://www.campaignforliberty.com/edu/economics.php
The article touches on one of the risks to the health care industry today, at least here in the US:

In many cases, the pharmaceutical companies are making billions by selling drugs which merely reduce undesired symptoms. But do not CURE the underlying problem. And the symptom reduction only lasts while the user continues to buy and consume the drug. Therefore, in many cases, these companies have a strong financial incentive to NOT cure a disease, instead, to prolong it and only sell palliatives. Government funding and government directed research should be one of the ways we ensure that we have people actively trying to CURE diseases. It's a classic example of an area where government can do something better than business, because there does not have to be a profit motive. Just a collective desire to reduce human suffering.

This also touches on why it's important to vote carefully in US presidential and congressional elections. Because certain political groups cater to the Big Pharma companies. A vote for them is almost certainly a vote towards a world where there are more palliatives than cures. Where even new forms of ill health can just be considered new "markets" or new ways to increase profits.
As I said in another one of my comments, sleep deprivation, in my opinion, isn't actually the key part of polyphasic sleep. You can sleep 6 or 7 hours polyphasically, too, and this will increase your productivity and creativity than sleeping the same amount monophasically.
it is kind of there if you use the trunk, actually
It's almost as though some common myths are being busted. (less kaboom.)

On topic: Wikipedia's lists are usually fun. WP has become my search engine of choice for things apart from error messages, or when I think I know what I'm looking for (or close).
Interesting -- it turns out that the truth about the makeup of George Washington's dentures (gold, hippopotamus ivory, lead, and human and animal teeth) is actually much weirder than the common misconception (wood).
Yep, diabetes is one of the Big Three health problems in the US, along with cancer and heart disease. There are people in my family that have it as well. And supposedly it's one of the fastest growing health problems in recent decades.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic about his prediction, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are :)

As for Bill Gates being a "smart guy", he's actually a brilliant guy, in the math sense: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1420612
I'm finding the external antenna's advantage may out-weigh its drawbacks.

Hands mess with cell phone reception. Every phone has an optimal way to be held so as to minimize this effect.

The difference with the iPhone 4 is that the optimal holding method is clear. If my signal is fine then I can cup the phone as normal but if I'm in a low signal situation I can give my phone the death grip to avoid touching the steel.
If you're the kind of person who reads Diplomacy by Kissinger for an introduction to geopolitics or the Bible to understand christianity, then I'd highly recommend Human Action by Ludwig von Mises for a very strong understanding of economics. One of the best (and largest) books ever written on economics, you don't have to be of the Austrian school to get a lot out of it. It lays a strong logical and theoretical foundation and then considers issues in a very engaging and even entertaining manner for non-economists.

And it's available as a very high quality audiobook for free!

http://media.mises.org/mp3/audiobooks/mises/HumanAction/
Mine works fine. I don't know. People will look for problems in anything. I liked it better when we were complaining about actual problems, like Apple telling programmers what language they're allowed to 'originally write' in when developing for their platform.
That's a classic example of an area where government can NOT do better than business, because government sucks at innovation.
There are plenty of companies that are not selling insulin, so they would be interested to be able to sell diabetes cure.
Assuming the chances of developing the cure are reasonably good.
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I think the problem is that python 3 is just different, without much improvements over 2 for many people. For example, the things which IMO were worth fixing at backward incompatibility price (like the import system, improved C API with ABI across minor versions, packaging) were not fixed.

I have (in small parts) contributed to the python 3 conversion for numpy/scipy, and the only reason why I have done so is to be a good "python citizen", and because numpy is a major library in the python ecosystem. But I don't see any advantage in doing so. The cost is high, and the advantages near inexistent for me
For some reason my brain read that as "Open Calacanis (...)" and I pictured a web search tool site where EVERY result was a link to a page on Mahalo.

Then I woke up screaming.
%s/small failure/reality checking/g
The great thing about the internet is now everyone can read about such scandals.

The bad thing about the internet is the noise level is so high, few will read about such scandals.

I hope in 100 years, advanced hobbyists can do sophisticated medical R&D in their garage and create small quantities of medicine for stuff that big pharma doesn't find profitable (the problem is the government will probably shut that down).
Can we call it fault-lines of capitalism ?
It's just a clever tech demo, not your everyday online banking site where functionality is required. They could have even used Chrome 6 for all that matter.
It's one of my favorite combinations: Rosemary, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh chopped tomatoes, mozz and pepperoni. I've just had a revelation, the combination of Rosemary and sun-dried tomatoes is something that never occurred to me and sounds like the best thing on a pizza ever.

I would be interested to see what this guy makes of Sao Paolo, which apparently has around 10,000 pizza places. I'm sure there is some gold to be found there.
Cool. For anyone wondering, here's that page in FF 3.6 and Opera 10.11:

http://imgur.com/R2Wod.png
a lot of truth to that.

I also think that if consumers were actually paying the full direct cost of treatments, they would be a lot less willing to pay for a chronic drug habit instead of a cure.

Selling cures can be profitable too.

Consumers are perfectly able to see and pay for the benefits of a one time solution as opposed to a cheaper chronic solution. That's why they buy cars and houses instead of renting them. The market will deliver what the consumer wants if the consumer were making the spending decisions.

Government can't be somehow better than business at deciding what to fund. Its manipulated by business! The current pattern has evolved in a government funded research environment. Only ending the interference in the normal process of making decisions at the consumer level can fix this problem.
My guess is there are (at least) two different issues. The antenna shorting issue which is (apparently) very real and a display issue which could be something as simple as a faster polling interval that shows normal RF fluctuations that don't actually impact service. The later issue is pretty common and nothing too serious -- easily fixable by a software update. I don't see how the first issue is fixable via software but it also seems like too big of a design flaw to slip through. Reports are an insulator over the gap solves the problem so I'm wondering if the original design called for some adhesive insulator to be applied to the gap and some number of units (lots or all) don't have it? I think you're right about the bumper cases though. Maybe they weren't for this specific issue but it seems to me that dents & dings on the antenna are going to be a lot more serious in the long run than just a cosmetic issue.
They can fund the researchers that actually do the innovation, is what I read it as.
I think that's just tunneling to a server side implementation though.

What I meant was that it'd be neat to have JS that actually implemented the client ssh and xterm/whatever emulation so you wouldn't need to go through the intermediate forwarding server to get somewhere.
IE 10 or 11 will probably be able to render this example correctly.

It won't. The demo uses -webkit-gradient, -webkit-box-shadow, -webkit-border-radius, -webkit-box-reflect, -webkit-transform, and -webkit-animation. Of course, it might be able to render it correctly when the "-webkit-" prefix is removed. But for now, demos like this are necessarily browser-specific.
I find it extremely uncomfortable to partake in these discussions (outside HN, of course). The Macrumors poll effectively claims over 50% of the units are defective. It seems not that many people have a problem with this kind of reasoning. I've also noticed Godwin's law in effect faster than usual.

What I do find interesting, however, is the need to utterly bash a product you will never buy, and never intended to, possibly because you believe your own brand of choice to benefit from that sort of commentary.
Before that there was a Brazilian invasion of Fotolog.

Livejournal had a Russian invasion, Flickr had an early invasion of kids from the U.A.E. and was blocked there for a while, Xanga went asian, Bebo went British.

You can't really predict how localized network effects will transform a globally-accessible online community.
visit www.gmbhnews.com from your iphone/android/BB to see how it looks as a webapp in a field where you mostly find native apps. It may be a bit difficult to market mobile webapps from my experience, since peoples don't use search on their smartphones (I think, this stateent is from Steve Jobs), but it's definetly worth it. and you can still create a native app , if it's really the point, and target a specific platform.
Ask HN: I don't want an interface like Gmail for my webapp. Alternatives?
It's slowly looking like my webapp should probably instead be a desktop app that talks in the background to a central server. I say this because it needs features like a webapp (log in as admin to the site, talk to db on webserver, see changes happen as they're made by others who are logged in, etc.), but it's complex enough that it feels like I should use GTK/Qt/whatever and run it on the desktop instead of using some in-browser overgrown JS GUI framework. Also, I am just not a fan of complex web pages that try to act like applications.

How can I have a desktop GUI app talk to the webserver securely? Should I just have my app send GET/POST requests over SSL? Have it use cookies for session management the way my webapp would?
I think Paul is missing one big piece here, which is companies that take only seed funding to become revenue positive - they're out there and they're not looking for growth capital from the big VCs, instead they're making things people will pay for...
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Disagree. Individuals (scientists, doctors, lab technicians, inventors) can do the innovating, can do the research. They just need to be paid and given space and tools and time to do it in. Enter government. Government does not need to innovate, just write checks. The problem with the alternative, like a large private corporation, can be that it may not be in their best interests profit wise to pursue a certain line of development. Could reduce their profits. Or at least they can be afraid it might. And they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. Not necessarily a sense of ethical obligation to their fellow man.
That's because he's using -webkit prefix, it would probably work wit -moz prefix on firefox.
I have a hard-to-test-theory involving the nodes with high betweenness-centrality that may explain regional popularity. The "most-connected" (eigenvector or page-rank) nodes may be much less valuable than the "more-diversely-connected" nodes (betweenness centrality being a good measure of this)) in their ability to persuade conversion.
It's pretty straightforward: you buy a 3 months, 6 months or 1 year visa - no questions asked. The 1 year visa costs about 700$ but I believe you can get it much cheaper if you get it from the US. It took a few hours and I bought it at the border of Hong Kong (no visa needed to go to Hong Kong for less than 3 months).
I learned a heck of a lot from reading John Kenneth Galbraith's books. In particular, The Affluent Society,
The New Industrial State, and Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went
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