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People down-modding controversial comments is my only criticism of HN - if you disagree you shouldn't downmod, rather write a reply explaining why you disagree; the karma of each post will show where the consensus lies.

The guidelines do indicate things should work this way - using only downmods for comments that are negatively adding to the conversion - but this doesn't seem to happen enough in practice.
I need to keep track of this thread. I have not heard of some of these before.

I'm currently learning with Notepad so I can force the syntax on myself. Is this a bad idea for a newb? I have Notepad++ but I haven't fired it up for Java yet, I just like it because I'm used to Geany on my linux machines and it feels similar.
The judicial arm can only act within the law. The law can be changed. Hitler assumed the chancellory legally. Perhaps a German king could have overruled the annexation of Austria and/or the Sudetenland? (of course, it's pure speculation, and the Kaiser of WW1 wasn't exactly a bulwark against aggression).

Yes, there are characters significantly more scary than Balkenende, and I think the Queen is a much better cooling agent for such a person than the judicial arm can be.
About 30 notable websites are blocked, counting from the list you posted.
I'll second this.

I will also add the following (much smaller) artists to the list:

- Balmorhea

- Tunturia

I've been listening to both of them a lot lately - more so than I have the heavy-weights (as listed above)
When Miles Davis released his album Sketches of Spain (brilliant, if you haven't heard it), there was a huge controversy over whether or not it was "real jazz". He did an interview shortly thereafter, where he was asked what genre he'd put it into. His response was brilliant: "It's music, and I like it."

I couldn't describe my own standpoint on what music I like any better than he did. While there are many genres in which I dislike the vast majority of the content, I'll give anything a shot and won't let a silly label stand in the way of liking something. I'm glad to see so many people on here feel the same; it always makes me cry on the inside to see listeners box themselves in.
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An IDE can help you learn syntax as well, with the added benefit that your code is compiled incrementally every time you save the file (at least with Eclipse), meaning you don't need to drop back down to javac each time you want to compile, and then compare the results in a command window to what is in your Notepad session.

So really, would you prefer to get red squiggly lines to show you your errors as you type, or would you rather try to get it perfect first before having to run a command-line program for compilation?
BTW, Idea has nice VIM plugin: http://plugins.jetbrains.net/plugin/?id=164
Hardstyle: http://listen.di.fm/public3/hardstyle.pls

Eurodance: http://listen.di.fm/public3/eurodance.pls

Eurobeat: http://go2id.net:8000/listen.pls

JPop: http://kawaii-radio.net/listen.m3u
Thankfully there is still http://old.thesixtyone.com :)
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That's some cool stuff. I had no idea that there were IDE's that did incremental compiling.

On the other hand, spell check made my spelling take a dive, so I had to consciously decide to stop using the right-click and replace-- hmm.
They are indeed the same. How did it pass?

$ foo()
> {
> wget -qO- "${1?}" |
> sed -n '/.*title"/!d; s///; s/">.*//; s/.*"//p; q'
> }
$ cat <(foo 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141971') \
> <(foo 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1523991') |
> uniq -c
2 http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
$
How I get into "the zone" is by repeatedly listening to my new favourite Bollywood song of the week.
Ask HN: Implementing DRM in an application, where to start?
If I wanted to prevent my application (lets say a desktop app) from just being blithly pirated, where would I start? Any particular techniques? Advantages, failings? Or even an OS framework by chance?
Pretty much anything I know by heart and can sing along to works for me. I just shuffle my "Top Rated" playlist all day and try to add at least a few new songs to it every so often.

It's a pretty big mix, with everything from Zero 7 to MF Doom to David Bowie to Gravity Kills to Johnny Cash, Oasis, Dr. Octagon, Lemon Jelly, Hole, and a ton more.
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Interesting, that means that a very high proportion of UK citizens are connected to the internet, since the population is about 60 million.
I like the signature:

"Posted by Anurag Acharya, Distinguished Engineer"
Drink off the pounds
Times of London website visits fall by two-thirds
No they don't - the last king of England to claim anything like absolute power had his head cut off after a civil war.

Certainly all European monarchies are constitutional:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy
I work with David. He has hundreds of people wanting portraits now. There's no way it's going to stay $50. Supply and demand. :)
Personally, our way of saving money is to pretend that we didn't have any money, especially when we were still building the product.

Scenario 1: we once thought we needed more developers to build our minimum viable feature set "on time." Since we pretended that we had no money (which isn't far from the truth anyway), we worked on improving our productivity, doing away with fluff features, and eliminating all non-productive uses of our time. That has helped us tremendously both in terms of building a product that is easy to understand as well as enhancing our work ethic.

Scenario 2: time to get some Beta users. If we weren't treating money in the bank as hands-off money, we would've splurged on some AdWords (which may or may not help us get the users we want). Instead, we worked with no cash (literally zero dollars) and tried to acquire early users using the basics: direct marketing, inbound marketing, social media activity, etc. That forced us to be creative.

Fundamentally, the best way to save money is to deceive yourself, as best as possible, that you have no money to spend -- that it's hands-off money, unless the company absolutely, absolutely needs the money and there is no other alternative. We had alternatives, so we skipped the spending. Not saying that this approach is optimal, but it sure keeps cash where it belongs: your bank account.
I'm surprised it's not more.

Actually, if they are all paying - that's a really good result.
You assume that Internet access makes you happier. I'm not sure. At least they are spared a lot of distractions :)
I've now read the article. If you google for 5a2bb6d6-910c-11df-b297-00144feab49a it lets you see it :)
I choose the music style according to what I feel like in a given day, but here are some favorites:

Dark Ambient: Lustmord, Gustaf Hildebrand, Robert Rich

"IDM": Aphex Twin(anything choosen from what I have) and Autechre

Metal: Burzum(filosofem), Xasthur, and mostly atmospheric BM

Industrial: Suicide Commando, VNV Nation, SPK

(Fin)NRG: Alek Szahala and Nomic

Classical: Bach, Handel, Liszt and Chopin

Demoscene music: Bitfellas radio

I will generally create a mix of from the above styles in a playlist and listen to it, when it begins to bother me (after some hours) I'll just change music style.

Also sometimes I just get some game CD and listen to the tracks, usually I choose Total Annihilation.
In my opinion, the best part of HN is that even when you are having a boring day, you might learn something interesting of short or long-term value.

In my opinion, the second-best part is that if you are isolated IRL whether by choice and/or circumstance (e.g. because you have too much work to do for a client commitment that you don't go out with friends) - it makes you feel connected/better when your comments impact or contribute to a discussion.

In brief, HN is an escape from routine that still is (even though it may be classified as a routine, for many of us). Thanks, pg!
Based on observations, but not an examination of the current code base, I would say that matching URLs are only flagged for a limited length of time, so repeats are allowed after enough time has elapsed.
Thanks for the tip. Some of my favorites:

Lvmen, Caspian, Kinski, Mogwai
Cambodia has internet cafes nearly everywhere in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. I volunteered for an NGO sponsored project to improve internet penetration, but it was quickly shelved after the first initial meetings when it was shown that Khmer business people were opening cyber cafes at an astronomical rate. So we decided it was better to stimulate the local economy by not meddling with it, and ruining these businesses with landfill-grade donated computers and imported expertise.

It was amazing to see motorcycles with saddle-like bags delivering Acer computers to dusty markets :-) They're usually carefully wrapped in multiple layers of plastic and styrofoam to protect from the elements.
Nothing can invalidate that claim if you're not seriously considering the implicit alternative explanation that mahmud offers, which is that Erdos would have been just as productive without the drugs.

Using Erdos as a 'plausible example' of the positive effects of drug use is fallacious, because it's a statistic with N = 1. Especially given the fact that a side effect of these drugs seems to be that it reduces creativity, we may just as well suppose that Erdos was impaired by them and would have been even more brilliant if he had realized he could do it without the chemicals.
=D

Thanks!! You just made the end (technically start) of my day!
That and having a ASK HN submission that got wonderfully great feedback.

I am thankful for HackerNews. I bet we'd all get along reasonably well offline which is a very very unbelievable thing to say relating to anything involving the internet.

Thanks a lot, have a good day!
Later posted as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1523798
Countries that don't have royalty make their own royalty. I'd rather keep the real thing.
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You really have the gall yourself to say that in a world where you can't as much as sing Happy Birthday to your child without violating copyright.

You would put fish into a tank with barbed or poisoned food and blame them for dying not sticking to the safe food.

You might have a point if I had a reasonable choice of not sending my children to a public school which teaches them the poisoned memes, eliminating free broadcasts of corrupt (aka copyrighted) content, etc. fighting the poison in other ways, but in America, corporatism is God, so it only works the other way, doing whatever it takes to hook our children on corrupt themes that will make money for the corporations even if free alternatives would have done just as well.

If you are going to spout naiveté, then the opposite extreme sounds more attractive. If they didn't want it copied, why did they broadcast it in the first place. If they don't publish it, then no one will "take" it.

But you want to have it both ways, on the one hand use public ideas with just a twist that you can poison with copyright and use to make money, make it popular and embed it into everyone's public spaces and minds, and on the other hand, retain tight control over what these people who have been polluted with it can do with it, when it has become part of them and their thought processes.

This is corruption, pure and simple. There should be no place for governmental policing of thought in America just to satisfy corporate greed.
Wow! China is a huge market. I know it was very big, but didn't know it's this huge. I wonder if China has equally good Startup ecosystem like USA which promotes innovation and entrepreneurship. Also, another question is - do US startups even have a strategy to focus equally on Chinese market like US market? If yes, how do they go about doing that?
Physical Times circulation ~600,000 per day @ £1

Online Times circulation ~1,200,000 per day @ £1/30*

(*although we don't know how many of those actually paid £1 for 30 days viewing)

It would be fascinating to know the actual figures.
However, one may wonder about the average quality of the papers. If he had laid of the drugs, he might have produced just the top 10% of the papers that he wrote under influence. One could argue that would actually have been a better result.
> So, how about if we could compile JavaScript into native code?

Isn't that what all modern JavaScript engines do? If so, how are the results for the experiment so good? My guess is that he didn't take the compilation time into account in his own method.
Insinuating that Apple did not test the iPhone 4 enough was an attempt to allow Apple to save face, it gave them a chance to go "Whoops! we made a mistake" then politely fix it. But all this evidence that Apple went to huge extents to test the phone but it still had problems says worse things about Apple then just not testing enough.
I'm very much in love with my 'Global Underground' series; Nick Warren, Dave Seaman are favourites.
I'm still very much learning about the "wizard behind the curtain" stuff that makes apps run more smoothly - like NSOperation and background threads and GCD, best practices for CoreData, memory optimization using Instruments.

Can you please recommend any code examples and/or resources to learn more about iOS performance and code optimization? The WWDC 10 session videos on performance that I saw (131, 137, 147) that I tried to understand were enlightening.
It would be interesting to see also the quality of internet access, like PSTN or DSL etc and if there is any cencorship...
I said technically. That is legally. The last monarch to not sign a bill was around 1700, but the queen has the legal right to not sign a bill. Also, the prime minister has the power, but he derives it from the royal prerogative, that is the queen, who can disolve parliament, appoint prime ministers, ministers, dismiss them.

So too, the entire united Kingdom is owned by the Queen, by a right of conquest from William the conqueror in 1066.

The queen can declare war, the judiciary derives power from the Crown, etcetera etcetera. Of course in practice things are much more sensible, but legally, all power rests with the monarch. She can not create new powers, but the powers she does have can be given or taken away.

Also, the United Kingdom does not have a written constitution. It does have an unwritten constitution, so it is indeed a constitutional monarchy, but that kind of deals with the rule of law, conventions which are not binding, etcetera. There are some legal restrictions, for example the queen can not make law without the assent of Parliament, she can not dismiss judges, it of course is not an absolute monarchy. However, legally all power derives from her, thus, she has all the powers.
Care to share any technical details? Hosting, language, storage... Thks.
The "tips and tricks" section is interesting. I didn't know that iterating over node lists can take O(n^2). Also the Closure Compiler was new to me.
Frankly, there are a lot of worse ways to spend your time than memorizing some lines of Shakespeare. Of course, one would prefer to have one's choice and not get stuck with a real dog of a passage.
School is an anomaly that's not worth discussing in the context of "mental enhancement"

If I include a university education under 'school', then I would say that an enhanced ability for learning would enable you to gain much more knowledge during those few years of dedicated learning. When hungry for knowledge, knowledge outside of the curriculum is as nutritious as knowledge required for exams.

The real world is not like this; the game is not zero-sum.

In many school systems outside the US, the game isn't zero-sum either, because you aren't judged relative to everyone else. An exam where 80% succeeds with 8/10 or higher is possible there, if the class is interested, motivated, etc. Similarly, I know of an instance where 80% failed an exam and had to take it again.
This is awesome. I was looking for something just like this: Rotations via CSS in Webkit and Firefox are easy; in IE they're plausible, but require you to provide the matrix used for the transformation. So a JavaScript library to translate the former to the latter is exactly the right approach.

Not that this is the only lib that does this. There's CSS Sandpaper, for one.
We don't need no education

We dont need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teachers leave them kids alone

Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
>adult ADHD is a disorder of not being focused or productive enough

That is, not conforming in the workplace ? Who would have thought ?
or just google the title which is:

Times' website visits fall by two-thirds
I don't want each language providing its own package manager. Sure, CPAN was a great leap forward back before apt became popular, but now I want to just apt-get install libraries. Language-specific package managers always fall short of apt because they don't deal with external dependencies - cabal isn't going to install the sqlite libraries when I install the bindings, and even if it did, I doubt they're going to take stability and security updates as seriously as Debian does.
Wow! Creationists on HN! Who would’ve thought?
If you think of all of HN as the single person in this comic: http://xkcd.com/242/
Thanks for those recs; I hadn't heard of either of them.

You should give The American Dollar a listen; they're a really great postrock band from Queens. And Mercury Program, too, but they're in the heavyweights category, more or less.
Don't be fooled, if you consider income or even worse spending China is still a tiny market. 20 years from now it might be far more important, but for now it only has a voracious appetite for a small number of imports such as Oil and industrial secrets.
I hadn't gone so far as to investigate that yet.

Oh well.

Perhaps we can get them to budge :x
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46k of script and no HTML for it to progressively enhance. That's really disappointing; web authoring at Google is usually highly competent.
And this reminds me of a talk, by Sophie Houlden, called "computer games are awesome, but you suck because you haven’t made one yet, you lazy bastard."

http://www.sophiehoulden.com/blog/?p=84#more-84
> For instance, what does this even mean?

I'm not a physicist. Here is my lay understanding of the holographic principle. Let's think of a physical theory (that attempts to describe the universe) as space of states together with a "time evolution operator" that says how states move around in the state space as time goes forward.

Now, one such theory might be, say, the location and velocity of matter in 3-dimensional space as the state space, together with the laws of Newtonian mechanics. Another theory is given by particles on a 2-dimensional film together with the laws of fluid mechanics.

Now, how are we to decided when two theories A and B are the same? Basically, we need to identify the states of A with the states of B, such that the identification respects the time evolution operator. (Mathematically, this is an isomorphism of theories.) The holographic principle says basically there are isomorphic 2- and 3-dimensional physical theories.
Right, so finally we learn that the US is a bigger country than Sweden. Great.
It depends on the language. Things like assembler demand Nine Inch Nails, Atari Teenage Riot, and other really fast things. This is possibly due to the fact that I have the attention span of a whippet, and I need to be kept up to speed. C++ lends itself to distorted acid noise in the manner of mu-Ziq, LFO, Squarepusher and Aphex Twin. Possibly because this music is good at dispelling C++ induced rage. Java is pleasant to write with a bit of big band like Nina Simone or Fred Astaire (this is probably more to do with the fact that I was into that sort of stuff when I first learned Java than because there might be any relation between Java and big band). Other languages on request :)

On a similar note, does anyone else have a favourite drink for late-night hacking? Again, Java is quite red-winey. Assembler is vodka and mixer. Electronics work demands a good ale.

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Ironically. That response got downvoted and I have no idea why.
yay for IDM and kvlt black metal.
Well, that just means it's a great time to get into that market. If had already become huge and spending was huge, there would be lots of startups focusing on china.

Perfect time to start laying out some groundwork.
I wish I could upvote you higher. The ability to commit complex information to memory is an immensely valuable building block for creativity. It's sad when education is only memorization and it's equally sad when education neglects memorization.
You can do full-text search of your history in chrome.
I think it's important to consider population, so maybe measure Internet penetration as a percentage of the population.

For example:

Internet Users in US: 230,630,000
Population of US: 307,006,550 people

That's roughly 75% of the US population.

Internet Users in China: 298,000,000 people
Population of China: 1,324,655,000

That's roughly 22.5% of the Chinese population.

However, by looking at the graph, we can also see that the growth of the Internet population is growing (exponentially) at a much faster rate in China than it ever did in the US.
I use my phone as a map a lot more than I do to make phone calls. Heck, I use the compass app more than I do make calls.
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While reading the description of him on the pill I couldn't help but realize that It seemed very much like my own behavior . I've always been an extremely finicky eater where one persons half (or sometimes less) portion would be more then enough for me. I can think back to multiple nights where I'd get the picture of a system in my head. I could sit down, and code all night. The next morning I'd wake up feeling great, and my apartment would be sparkling clean (I had this habit of roaming the place cleaning while I considered the best ways to write a component) Anyways that was before I turned 21. After I turned 21 I started to slow down, where as I used to get into that "zone" some times 4 times a week, i'm lucky to get it once a month. I always seem to walk around feeling as if my head is filled with air, but yet still feels like an extra 50lbs. In addition I also gained 20lbs, my appetite changed dramatically. I went from easting only because I have to, to becoming obsessed with it. There is some good news though, I recently started to drastically reduce my beer consumption at the beginning of July. The last 2 days I have enjoyed 2 very productive days, I have also lost about 10lbs, and I'm almost back to my old low appetite self.

On the note related to the thread below, my rs4680 is AA.
It is interesting, that we are only now scratching on the surface of what Tesla did 100 years ago.
It's your community; if you feel a comment was unfairly down voted, up vote it. I often make "correction" up votes.
Consider why you are trying to teach. Is it to jockey for position/gain the upper hand?

If you truly want to make a better impression, have people teach you. The classic female 'Can you help me with my homework'. Really, no one likes a know-it-all. And if you win an intellectual argument, are you really winning? Show some interest in learning, genuine interest, from other people's experiences or knowledge.

Teaching is one of the harder disciplines because it is not about the teacher teaching but about the teacher learning how to teach from their students.
Why wouldn't it be acceptable?
Tastes change.
"Pain gun" gets deployed in Afghanistan
New fallacy alert: appeal to brainwashing. If I recognise someone has created something I recognise it as their property and choose to only use it in line with their permission or not use it at all. If my friend plays a song he just wrote I don't turn around and sell it to the world or release it P2P against his wish. Why is it people like you always revert to the brainwashing argument whenever individual choice becomes a problem for your argument.