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You're right, it's a dead simple issue. I don't know what came over me, or all the other people discussing this with much sound and fury.

(Imagine, trying to avoid the typographical and layout nightmare that is the world wide web while you are trying to grow a business.)

Look, the Reader "solution" has many problems. Surf around and try it out for a while. Plus people are already complaining that it is an example of Apple's iron heel of "user experience" being forced upon the world. Oh! That's what people are saying about the iBook problem...

Apple doesn't need to and, frankly, is largely unable to curate the web. There's already lots of users who are used to dealing with poor design. This is not the case with books, or at least fiction books, which are not heavily formatted and typographically simple (we call it elegant...) People expect to just open them up and start reading and not have to figure things out. You start allowing complicated layout and interactive CSS and I guarantee you we'll start seeing book with navigation menus and other foolishness.

Apple is simply trying to make it dead simple for frightened publishers and weenie techheads to make a simple, commercially viable fiction book that users will tolerate while creators are learning about the finesse and subtlety of digital book design.

Either way this gets implemented, lacking a lot of educations on both sides of the digitally rendered page, there are going to be unhappy people.
If people aren't willing to voluntarily pay for it, I think the free market has spoken, that it doesn't value the summer blockbuster.
Bill went to oxford for awhile before going to yale. While at oxford he started playing rugby.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#Early_life_and_car...

I think he would have also picked up playing soccer. I'm not from the UK but it is one of those things that rubs off when you are there.

The new friends you meet will say come play a game of football, regardless of your skill level. They will talk about their teams to no ends. So by proximity you also become a fan of football.
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I see absolutely no benefits in getting 7

IE9 is one, isn't it? Or Firefox with Direct2D.
> I'm not claiming ownership on my ideas. I'm claiming the right to prevent copying of my software and writing!

How are you going to do that, though? It just so happens that the natural world does not provide you with an obvious way to do that. If you physically occupy a house, someone has to violently eject you to take it. But if you voluntarily put your software out into the public sphere, someone can copy it entirely in the privacy of their own home, using 100% materials they own! Now it's you who'd have to engage in the violence to stop them: you, or a state acting on your behalf, would have to intrude into their private house, and tell them they can't use the materials they physically own in the way they're doing. That, to me, seems a much worse intrusion on actual property rights than any "intellectual property" defense could justify.
How is Gitorious making money? Everything I saw on google said they don't even have a business model. If so it's hardly a good example of what all people who would like to make money from what they're good at (writing software) should be doing.
Agree that urinal cakes are the answer -- isn't the smell just chemical? Ammonia, etc?

We have these at the office space my employer just built-out. Does have a slight stale-urine smell all the time.
From my time at university doing electronics we observed that some people do cause this effect - one person in our department consistently shorted anything he touched. We never figured out why but I know a couple of other people who have the same problem.
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In the Mr Potato head example video demo Chrome has 25fps before you click anything i.e. just displaying a static canvas doesn't get up to the 60fps seen for IE9. It also returns to only 25fps after everything stops moving again after you shoot the gun.

I thought that was a bit strange, so I tried to reproduce it. In the live demo the fps meter only appears after you fire the gun, and (apparently) stops with the last value after the items stop moving.

What's going on there?
Ok see you there. Can someone put up a sign or something as everyone has a macbook and looks like a geek nowadays
It's not the needing of others, but the inability to price or pay for societal benefits that leads to the social contract you're basically born into.

Another example, what price do you put on having your neighbors being educated or non-violent enough to not kill you the next time they see you and take your family and belongings? In an anarchy, the cost of your own weapons cache maybe, but in current society it's hard to determine. But it's still a benefit to not be living in the stone age or next door to the Huns.
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I don't find this submission HN worthy.
It doesn't have to be one of:

a) Stupid
b) Ignorant
c) Wrong

It is most likely that Obama has different motivations then we do so his "right" is different than ours.
That looks like a nice solution. I wonder what the question was.
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Would love to make it, too, but am wrapping up at my current client's and will be late this evening.

Have a good evening - looks like it'll be a lovely warm night for it!
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Was going to post this here, you beat me :)

I'm a beginner when it comes to financial/economics stuff, but i still found this may 6th crash and the HFT evolution quite interesting.
This seems to be the first real attempt at exploiting the exchanges using a computer infrastructure, and the incredible thing is that the ones who should instantly block this with regulations seems puzzled and unable to react.
Are we beginning to see in the real world things shown previously only in work of fiction like Daemon by Suarez?
Amazing, will follow the evolution of this story in the future...
Good tests for randomness will pick that out relatively easily.

There is a whole set of tests that you can run to determine the quality of your random data, hashing functions applied to the output of a less than perfect RNG will only fool the most naive of such tests.

Of course it all depends on the quality desired, in my case I had to satisfy all those tests and it was surprisingly hard to do, it's one of the few contracting jobs that I ever landed fixed price that I actually lost money on, the upside is that I learned an awful lot, especially about PCB layout, ground planes, power supply stabilization and semiconductor behaviour as well as analyzing such a system over an extended period.

It's the weirdest thing to be able to graph a perfect sinewave extrapolated from long term analysis of the summation of a few billion samples when looking for 50 or 100 Hz influences, especially if those samples pass most tests for randomness with flying colours. Circuits containing both analog and digital components are a black art, and my hat is definitely off to those that do this for a living and have turned it in to a science. Dabblers like me would do better to know the limits of their knowledge, I did eventually get it to work but if such a job came my way again I'd decline in spite of knowing more now about the subject than back then when I first took that job.
is "Catch-22" misused in this article?
It would be worth stopping or slowing, but putting someone in jail? How does that help anything? Destroy someone's life over a download?

Plus, letting the Music/Movie industry keep things as they are is slowing progression. If the government is going to get involved in this they need to also insure that new (i.e. online) competition is allowed in on media distribution. The existing players have a monopoly on it, and a monopoly is something that provably hurts the economy.
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Re: Intersection lights: So for cities with snow issues, heaters may need to be installed for the heavy snow days, which will add to the cost but may still yield long term savings. And for all other cities, it should be a fine proposition.

It's okay, they released early, they can release often. Bugs will get sorted out as user comments pour in.
Also consider haXe: http://haxe.org/
It's an actionscript-inspired unified language which can be compiled into JS, Flash, PHP, C++ or interpreted on (yet another, sic) VM as an apache mod.
I agree with the article... up to a point. Write your programs to be as simple as possible - but not simpler.
Is there a reserved area? Or is it a matter of walking around and finding the people talking about programming/startups? :-)
Or a cult.
Without intimate knowledge of the company's workings, plans and actions in those past 10 years, that logic is post hoc ergo propter hoc. The only thing we can say for sure is his jackassery didn't hurt the company as much as a rational person would think it might.
I like to change the defaults. When you use to read green on black instead of black over white, or change the font size you realize that the designer only though in one size, and one colour.

PDFs are perfect at only one layout, and font size. At different ones it is just horrible. It doesn't work right on an iphone-android small screen.

When designers choose fonts, it only works at one size, at different ones, areas seems different with the same font.
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But not on linux/*bsd right? Guess you have to have a quite new mac for that too ( my 2008 Macbook wount cut it I guess :( )
Depends on your point of view. It certainly is excused if you're a Cerner stockholder, right?
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Could IE actually become awesome? It certainly looks that way.
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Yeah but that gets pretty vague pretty fast.

How do you measure a programmer's productivity when you can't estimate exactly (and sometimes not even close) how much work something should take?
Just on the off chance people based in the Midlands are reading this and wishing they could go - is there enough interest for a meetup in the Midlands?
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> Destroy someone's life over a download?

The law isn't proposing to destroy lives of casual downloaders. They'll get a fine at most - which is what all legislation I've ever seen does. Jail is inevitably reserved for more organized networks.

> Plus, letting the Music/Movie industry keep things going as they are

Piracy also affects the software industry and independent artists. Like me, like the other guy in this link that had his worked nicked, like our Bingo Card Guy. Piracy doesn't distinguish between good people and bad people. It's about getting things you want without paying for them.

There is no pirate site that refuses to steal from indie artists, ethical companies, or OSS contributors.

New online competition is media distribution is allowed! My company sells it works directly, so do heaps of independent artists. Nobody from other companies or the government can stop us selling work online.
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> I don't think anyone has any particular right to profit from their work

Then how will you make money from Woobius? How will any of us on HN make money from our work? Not everything can be ad-supported.

> You're arguing for some sort of positive freedom to profit from labor, which unsurprisingly no libertarian-leaning person would really endorse.

What? Freedom to profit from their own labor is very much something Libertarians hold dear.

> Not only that, you're arguing that state power should be used to create artificial scarcity

Libertarians want the government to stop interfering in markets. Piracy isn't a market, it's a crime - piracy hurts markets.
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We've reserved space for 60, in the "back barn". Walking around to find people talking about startups will work too :)
Actually I would say this is core to the whole issue. Management is still largely stuck in the mindset of a physical labor world. With physical labor if you force people to work 12 hour days you really will get close to 12 hours of work because as long as the body can swing a pick it can... swing a pick.

The brain doesn't work like this, you can't push the brain past a certain point consistently.

Management needs to catch up to the times. We don't pay CEO's millions of dollars to over see a bunch of people swinging picks.
Those who have an HTC HD2 (aka HTC Leo) may want to keep an eye on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651632
(Development thread for Linux/Android on the HD2).

In short, there isn't (yet) Android on the HD2. Perhaps this code drop will help.
Thanks. We'll keep HN posted about future HN London meetups. Hopefully we'll do another one at the similar time next month.
Found this site on textfugu.com (owned by Koichi, a nice guy, see http://www.helloko.com/2010/06/income-report-may/ , strange he is not on HN), and wondered how they could guarantee a low rate of frauds. Sadly the article doesn't say much about their internal processes.
> How is Gitorious making money?

By offering commercial support and custom instalations, see for example http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/05/11/welcome-qt/
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And the CEO in question probably has optimizing stock prices at a higher priority than optimizing employee morale.
For the same reason I'd care if someone stole any other piece of work.
Isn't that because you also have an 1 hours lunch break ? Seems logic to me.
> How are you going to do that, though?

This bill is a good start.

> That, to me, seems a much worse intrusion on actual property rights than any "intellectual property" defense could justify.

We already raid houses in relation to fraud, embezzlement, and other crimes based around intellectual values.

Would I support raiding a house for piracy? I don't think anyone's proposing raiding houses for casual downloaders. If they were an organized piracy network ALA TPB, who have inflicted massive amounts of damage on authors, artists, game makers, and app developers, big and small, then as a writer, a software maker, and an ethical human being I'd certainly support that.
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While the A/B testing content is interesting as well, this is also a good example of how to get your product onto authority sites (solve a problem for them, such as their lack of authoritatively presented content about an area you're expert in) and an example of how you can grow your market via out-teaching the competition.

Anyone ever wondered how you compete with a competitor who has more money than God and gives the product away for free?
This is one way. (Clocking the competition in product quality is also an option. In this case, a surprisingly achievable option. Every time I show off Visual Website Optimizer it knocks socks off versus the product from the big ad company.)
Folding and remembering. Getting more value out of a business card.
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But since it's the norm it doesn't sound grandiose at all (at least to me).
I bet with the public launch, they will put bandwidth restrictions in place. Otherwise this will be misused in no time.
> Another example, what price do you put on having your neighbors being educated or non-violent enough to not kill you the next time they see you and take your family and belongings?

The price I pay of my neighbour not killing me if he feels like it is not killing them should I feel like it - that's the nature of society. We also both fund a police force that will attempt to prevent and punish crime. It doesn't seem hard to determine at all.

Markets work differently from societies - the price consumers pay in a market is the price the provider asks for, for the product the consumer has chosen. The provider could set an unreasonable price if he wishes, but the consumer could always decided that the value provided isn't sufficient and not buy the product.
There is an intrinsic cost to murdering someone that's not dependent on human laws. There is no intrinsic cost to reusing an idea, other than that made up by human laws.

I agree that the argument about copyright should be practical, not moral - which is why I'm opposed to starting the discussion from the point of view that authors have a moral right to preventing people from copying their creations. They don't.
It might be better to still pitch big blogs even if they ignore it.

If you get some press from smaller blogs and the big guys read them, it may recall them that you tried to contact them and have them have a second look at it ?
No, world is not ready. I worked in the building with such urinals and they stink. (And believe me, there is no need for smoke bomb to smell where the stink comes from)
...from preventing it, ahem.
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> However, after re-reading it several times, he’s probably saying...

the story is nice. But really? You had to read several times a two sentences e-mail to extract some "deep meaning" out of it? Get a grip. Steve Jobs is Apple's CEO, he is not Yoda.
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Those units have been in operation since 2004. So far, there have been no urinal-related deaths.

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I think statistical significance is the more important thing in a/b testing, but they only included links to external sources. It's hard to tell the difference between coincidence and real difference between two versions when changing simple things like button colors and I still feel ignorant about the subject.
Some of those tools look great for doing A/B testing for websites but are there any guidelines out there on programming design patterns to implement A/B testing in generic software? I'm reluctant to litter my code with statements like:

if (userid % 2 == 0) {
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//do test B logic
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Man, Nokia has way to many platforms inhouse. 3 Symbians, probably Symbian 2 will die.
Meamo and MeeGo, where Maemo will die.
But the have to maintain all 5 solution.
They should focus on one, at most two. Really low cost and one powerful solution.
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As far as i know, a successful startup is supposed to make you rich or well off, but what about a web app that brings enough profit to replace your day job? I've been programming for about 6 months and i don't have nearly enough experience to venture into the real startup world. Is the failure rate still really high for web apps that make, let's say, $1000-$2000 profit a month or are there tons of these, but we just never hear about it because it's so common? Can web app revenue stay stable or are web apps that make at least $1000 profit/month "doomed" to eventually grow substantially?
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I see, thanks. It's a shame that they don't advertise those features better. It's a major point why i use soup.io.
> I worked in the games industry for a short while (for an indie developer) and it is pretty disheartening to see your hard work handed out for free without your consent. It feels like someone is sticking their middle finger up at you. :)

I'm familiar with this feeling too (as is one other poster). It's not great.

I get the feeling that if someone posted 'someone ripped off my app!' on HN everyone would instantly upmod it. Post that somebody's doing something about TPB and suddenly piracy is assumed to only affect large, evil corporations.
The thing that worries me most, is that Apple wants to control everything. Maybe even with good intent, but there is no such thing as a good dictator - see the apps the banish at the app-store.
Depends which browser/feature you're talking about. The WebGL stuff I believe is hardware accelerated in Linux Firefox, but some of the video stuff is Windows only for now and some other stuff is Vista & Windows7 only currently.

For the Mac are you talking about H.264 acceleration? Apple have historically not exposed the hardware acceleration features of the graphics cards they shipped, often not even using it themselves and just using software decode. They've changed this recently by making use of some (but not all) of the Nvidia (but not ATI) decode capabilities but it's not the hardware that's missing for many older devices, it's access to the hardware that only Apple can provide. These capabilities are accessible if you're running Windows or Linux on that same hardware.
Do you think external sources weren't enough? Main statistical tools used for A/B testing are G-Test, Chi-Square test and Z-test (after assuming sum of binomial variables as normal distribution).
I've heard Reznor tell his audience to pirate NIN CDs produced by his old record label as the price is outrageous and only a small amount goes to him.

I'm not sure he feels the same about the works he's selling directly himself.
Frameworks like Patrick's A/Bingo and Vanity are specifically meant for integrating A/B testing within software. In fact, I remember a presentation by Patrick where he outlined how easy is it to adapt his library to other languages.

Here is the link: http://www.slideshare.net/patio11/ab-testing-framework-desig...
Type 1 design is not taught anywhere, people don't even know this is an option. The only design strategy that is taught is architecture astronautic.

I had an argument with a teacher that thought that it would be useful to abstract things from a pop/imap email fetching service, in case other protocols show up ? I'd argue that was improbable and that would complexity the design and that possible other protocols might be so different that they wouldn't fit the abstraction. He dismiss it as industry specific way of doing (but I lacked examples a little bit, so I wasn't completely convincing ).

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Really? What is so special about the cover?
"UTC used to be called GMT."

Not exactly. iirc UTC is based on atomic clocks while GMT is based on astronomy. The whole time measurement system is quite complex and messy.

But in most cases it probably is fair to call UTC and GMT equivalent.
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