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As someone getting married Saturday, I can say that this would be a GREAT idea. The ridiculous amount of money we sank in to invitations really rubbed me the wrong way.

Also, something I noticed when we were going through all of this was the RSVP process is broke. Even if you provide a pre-addressed + stamped post card with a checkbox on it, people still don't respond. I thought about some sort of barcode that can read by smart phones, that auto magically directs to a web site (or they can go to it manually). Either way, you get the idea.

Just some thoughts, but I would most definitely look at the RSVP industry too.
Thanks for the tip, don't know how I missed this in chrome!
Self-censorship is also driven by editorial staff purposely biasing their reporting to reflect the political biases of their readership. There's a sizeable segment of society that thinks that reporting on alleged abuses in Afghanistan is akin to terrorist-sympathising.
This the exact reason why I dumped Twisted in favor for gevent (greenlet/coroutine-based NIO library)
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That is completely Operas fault. They need to open source & get some better marketing.
If you charge for the PDF someone will charge less and someone else will charge even less.

Let them. Your pathological customers have to go somewhere -- send them to that sucker. If they cut their prices, you raise yours. I promise you you will come out ahead on that exchange. (It even works for bingo cards, which the customer has not spent an entire lifetime envisioning as the ultimate in socially acceptable public demonstrations of lavish consumption.)
I think Alex confuses "scaling in the small" with performance. Rewriting Starling in Scala most probably improved Twitter but it did it make it more scalable?

To me as an outsider, it sounds more as Starling (or Kestrel) got its performance upgraded, not scalability.

May sound pedantic, but it's important to differentiate performance from scalability.
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Not an entirely impossible pipe dream though - I'm sure it would be feasible to blur the boundaries between news publishing and anarchic internet fora by algorithmically relegate misleading or non-newsworthy submissions based purely on user preferences.
This is really sexist, and the very fact that she can get away with it (and even get lots of praise) should make us all reflect on how fucked up social conventions and politically correctness are.

I've written about the topic here -> http://usingimho.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/men-and-women-on-r... and i've been smiten to death in the comments because i dared to state the fact that only around 1% of the opensource projects on rubygems are made by women and that we all should reflect on that.

Here's a passage of her article:

I believe it is these tangential code-cowboy qualities women are unable or unwilling to emulate, and not their skill or capacity for abstraction, problem solving, creative thinking, or communication — All of which actually make them better developers

Think about if a man dared to write the following:

I believe it is this inability to go straight to the point that men are unable or unwilling to emulate, and not their ability to understand other's needs and to understand how social situations work — All of which actually make them better marketers
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The keyboard originated with the first typewriters, end of the 19th century (100+ years). Nothing much changed with them, not even the layout.

And you are right, the mouse won't leave us any time soon. It's very ergonomic. You can use it while your arm is mostly at rest (reinforced by the table).

These kind of pads are nice for short time playing, but they are not useful for actual work where you sit 8/5 in front of a screen.

But it will have it's niche market.
It's really massively non-standard though.

I'd go for M/T/W/Th/F/Sa/Su
especially if you don't speak English.
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Oui. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExmqBkfFU5Q
Spontaneous Marathon Races. Could an Idea like this work?
Ever thought of running a marathon, but the race date or location didn't jibe?

Do nagging injuries prevent you from ever getting to the starting line?

Are you feeling great TODAY, and would love to run a marathon TODAY?

Then DO IT. Be a random runner!

Tell randomrunners.com about your need for speed, the distance and route, and we'll tell running enthusiasts far and wide about your impromptu race. You can set up a marathon as quick as one hour (depending on the area).

Meet new people, stay in shape, and finally check "run a marathon" off your life's to do list!
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For those wishing to use heavy machinery I recommend Adium's library:

http://trac.adium.im/wiki/AutoHyperlinksFramework

It's tweaked to properly support lots of edge cases.
Yeah, certainly throws that Aussie mainstay "between 11 and 3 sit under a tree" out, and that's a dangerous move if you do live in Australia. Since moving to the northern hemisphere I really feel as though the sun here is less intense, but I'm also a lot further north (Belgium) than I was south (Sydney) of the equator, or so the longer summer days seem to imply. It certainly doesn't feel as though it will bake your skin off like it did back home, though old habits die hard and I still go out slathered in cream :)
That's the ad hoc pitch for the idea I got about 30 minutes ago in the shower. I registered a couple of domain names and now I'd like to get some input from the HN clan.

Could this work? If so, what are the minimum amount of features I'll need for launch?
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Is Romania a good place to start a business now ?
I've never accepted the big bang as an explanation for the beginning of the universe. It's an explanation of how the universe ended up in it's current state, but still doesn't explain how all that matter came to be in the first place.

This new theory I can at least kind of wrap my head around, there is no beginning and no end... i don't know why but it makes more sense to me.
You can kill the mouse when your laptop comes with a built in trackpoint and not a moment before.

Trackpads are third rate input devices at best, and should be faced out.
The problem with selling of photos is that the owner is not
"selling" the photo away, at least he would not be willing to in most practical situations.

What the owner sells is the "right to use the picture" and the price of the sale depends on where it is being published. If a college student wants to include it in his presentation, the owner would be willing to give away the permission for free and if Conde Nast wants to include it as a magazine cover, then the owner would be willing to charge a 1000 dollars.

Your assumption of "selling" the photos to some one for some fixed price, is not sufficiently sophisticated and is unlikely to appeal to the target audience, the photographers.

I think what you should do, at least for the start is: Allow the owner to sell the printed copies of their photographs and ship them, and donate all the profits to a social cause: http://www.acumenfund.org/ This lets the photographer put up a banner saying, buy the printed copies of my photo and help the children in India get education.
A given company shouldn't pay you less for working from home unless it actually reduces your usefulness to them, in which case they're perfectly entitled to propose a cut and hope that doesn't demotivate you too much. If that means two more free hours a day, a better lifestyle and/or lower costs of living then you're still quite possibly better off worth negotiating that pay cut.

Realistically, for most people absolute freedom to work where they want probably means leaving their existing job and having much more restricted choice of jobs or companies looking to contract out, which unless you're presently underpaid will probably to lead to lower offers .
Yes. Sorry to say, but this was a huge red flag for me - if the author is apparently unaware of a project that it is that well-known, he has no business writing mail software. (I know that he comments on this very page that he is aware of GNU Mailman...)
Well, just to turn around and play Devil's Advocate, they could always have nuked some feature of the game engine that was left unmentioned in the account. Dropping the PC storage system altogether would allow for quite a bit more save-game space, without really lessening the emotional impact of the hack. In other words, it's probably what I'd do :)
Is linkedin really worth that much?
I think the MTA->Maildir->Mailman route is odd; why not go MTA->Mailman directly, like, say, GNU Mailman, maildrop/procmail, or any other mail filter I've ever seen?
Excellent - but the "zzzzzz" part comes out like "zee zee zee zee zee zee zee".... at least on osx....
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Does anything actually use OpenCL yet?
Your question is fairly meaningless. There are many different ways to value something, but one of the more reliable ones is "what are people willing to pay for it?"

By that valuation method, then yes, LinkedIn is really worth that much. By other valuation methods, probably not.
I feel conflicted about doing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jULOA7mSOac&fmt=22
I agree that the RSVP process is broken, nobody responds! Short of actually going to their house and putting the card in the mail, I don't think we could have done anything to make it easier for people. My other thought here is more of a life-hack. Put a meal choice on the RSVP card. Nobody cares if you know they're coming, but they'd better get that steak they ordered! :)
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You should put that in the title.
it's hard to infer if the record is being set due to better hardware or better algorithms. I'd like to see benchmark improvements in algorithms not hardware, but I'm a software guy.
Many people with pets kept indoors would be very surprised to learn that these animals can needlessly suffer from painful arthritis in old age due to vitamin D deficiency. Dogs and cats don't get much sun on their skin, but they secrete oils on their hair which produce the vitamin when in sunlight. The animals then ingest it when they lick themselves.

Some people that thing they're getting sun while driving don't realize that auto windows are designed to block UV.
I guess what I mean is whether people that have followed them over time or are regular users, is that valuation really justified. I guess the investors could be looking to make a fairly quick profit if the do have an IPO.
Ask HN:Which companies put out programming puzzles?
If I see a company that puts out programming puzzles in an attempt to hire people, my respect for them increases ever so slightly. Consequently, I think working for them will be more fun.

I cannot explain why I feel this way, but I do. If you have any arguments/reasons why this is incorrect, please comment and let me know.

So far I've seen Quora, ITA and Facebook do it. I'm sure there are tons more that I am unaware of.
Hey pieter, thanks for the feedback. We're still adjusting a lot of the sensitivity for the touch interactions. We did testing beforehand, but right now we're hoping enough set of feedback data points can tell us where to adjust things. We've thought about settings in the admin panel: sensitive, more sensitive, etc.
The detail gives you a clue:

The purchase, at $21.50 a share for about a 1 percent stake, was from existing shareholders and doesn’t represent new investment
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The open drivers support 3D IF you're using R600 or below. Which is a pretty big if. Once the new Gallium3D driver is merged in Mesa 8.0, we'll talk.
When you see deals like this it is often not reported what liquidation preferences or other the investor is getting.

E.g. If Hedge Fund X puts in a $20M investment for 1% it might seem expensive, but not if they have a 3x liquidation preference that guarantees them a profit on any trade sale above $20m in value, and most likely on an IPO.

Similarly it helps LinkedIn set a price point with any future IPO plans.
The article mentions that doing it better would require lots of nonstandard extensions, but not that it's struggling in the first place because it's the wrong tool for the job. If more developers realized the limitations of using just REs for these tasks, languages would be better integrated with actual parsing tools.

I think that tools like LPEG (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html) are a step in the right direction - it's a small Lua library* which provides a PEG-based parsing library. It's very powerful, but also scales down to use as a more efficient, more expressive PCRE replacement. There are various trade-offs in using PEGs rather than LALR(1), LL(1), etc., but the integration with the rest of the language is very good. It feels like using a better form of REs, rather than "adding a bunch of parsing machinery".

* Though nothing about its design is Lua-specific. There's a paper which explains its underlying mechanism, and it's just a small C library (2258 loc for v. 0.9) - porting it wouldn't be that difficult.

I agree with you about an actual markdown grammar, though it's useful enough that I have a hard time complaining. (I particularly like Discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/).)
Firstly: in neither medicine, nor in law, are 50% of the graduate students women.

Oops, my mistake. The actual numbers are 49% and 49.4%.

http://www.aamc.org/data/aib/aibissues/aibvol6_no7.pdf

http://www.lawschool.com/femalemajority.htm

The women have to perform better to be even considered and only if they are then rejected, then they are being discriminated against?

You've completely misinterpreted what I said. Women overperforming at a given level is a consequence of discrimination, not a precondition. Discrimination is equivalent to a higher standard. If women (or any other group) are held to a higher standard than men, then they should overperform men.

Another (non-emotionally loaded) example: colleges have a higher academic standard for regular students than for football players, equivalent to discriminating against non-football players. As a result, non-football players tend to perform academically better than football players.

For this reason, I'd like to see a study that measures performance rather than opinion.
It uses Twitter posts (sentiment) as well as actual Foursquare check-ins (location). I'm guessing people are waking up and either commenting on how they shouldn't have partied so hard the night before, or are saying something to the effect of "why'd I leave the bar?" / "I should move in to the bar" / etc.
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To this day I still think it's amusing that we supposedly live in The Land of the Free (TM) but we can't "fork" a piece of the US off, even a tiny piece of it that we personally inhabit, and make a new country.

I can't blame any nation for not allowing it's citizens to declare their own lawn a sovereign nation and do whatever they please on it. That is beyond libertopia and into plain anarchy.
I wonder if this signals a possible switch to AMD CPU's in the future? Maybe AMD offered them a great deal on graphics boards for enticing them to try their CPUs. Of course this is just pure speculation.
check the comments on his blog. he knew about it ahead of time and didnt think it was an issue because someone could just google 'ruby mailman'. apparently the idea of encroaching on another project's name never occurred to him as an extremely impolite ( to put it kindly ) thing to do.
Why not do both? Some people will love the Facebook option and the ability to RSVP immediately AND have their calendar updated automatically. Some people don't have a social network connection or prefer the old fashioned way. Or make the choice manually; Mom & Dad want paper, high school pals want Facebook/Twitter/Buzz/etc.
They imply that it's largely software, but obviously the hardware is not the same. If they actually reduced power consumption by 75% then it's pretty interesting regardless of what the mix is.
Exactly - the great think about populism in the form of internet petitions is that the laws proposed don't actually have to work as intended and the proponents don't have the responsibility of dealing with the consequences
Unfortunately, that only worked because Galt personally selected a small and virtuous population (recall that Dagny actively tried not to become the beneficiary of govt subsidies early in the book). In the real world, I don't think it would be possible to keep rent seekers out.
This makes it pretty pointless to have discrete ATI graphics under Linux. I have an integrated ATI graphics card in my desktop and discrete ATI graphics card in my laptop. They both have the same use cases; they can handle basic desktop functionalities (which is a huge step from fglrx) but not any serious 3d.
Aren't you describing 95% of all business advice?
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I need to clarify the OP, since it seems many are responding to points I wasn't making.

Basically, like many of you, I have some ideas for things outside my field. I can see that, if pursued by someone in that field, they have an epsilon probability of success and a (1-epsilon) probability of failure, where epsilon can be very small.

What I was trying to say in the OP is that even if one of the ideas is within the epsilon range, that doesn't mean that if I pursue it, it will have probability of success epsilon.

Most likely, if I pursue it, it will have probability of success of delta and probability of failure (1-delta), where delta is much smaller than epsilon, and is zero in most cases.

That's why some ideas, if they are had by people in the field may be worth pursuing by them, since the odds of success, even if small, are not negligible. If those same ideas are had by people outside the field, the odds of success become negligible or zero, so they are never pursued.

As a small throw-away example, I live in an area where people put those silver or white covers on the dashboard of their cars, to prevent the sun from overheating the cabin of the car. I always thought that instead of this being a gadget you buy and then have to manually fold and unfold and store when not in use, cars should have those built-in, and you just press a button and some silver-coated cover emerges from the front of the dashboard and covers the front wind shield. Whether or not this particular idea would ever work, the point is that if someone inside, say, Honda or BMW or whatever, has this idea they can quickly make a CAD drawing and see how it would fit and work within the existing CAD drawing of one of the company's cars, they could probably price it, and if things look decent, they can pitch it to their boss. If someone from outside the car company has this idea, the number of obstacles they have to overcome just to get the idea heard is huge.

(Wasn't there a movie recently with Greg Kinnear where he played a guy who invented intermittent windshield wipers and had a very tough time with the car companies? I just found the person he was portraying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns)

The question is how many innovations like the intermittent windshield wipers do we as a society miss out on because of the huge imbalance of how easy/hard it is for people inside/outside a field to pursue ideas?
What happens the following week? To me that would be the tough part - the change back to normal.
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Ok. What you wrote would adapt to select and nonblocking sockets in LuaSocket pretty easily, FWIW. Using epoll / kqueue (directly or via libev/libevent) scales better, but you're blocking on the sleep, so it wouldn't matter.
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I couldn't watch the video on my iPad. They should rethink that.
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It's about time NYC got this system. They have this in LA and I love it. Why would you ever eat at a restaurant rated a B when an A is right next door?

I think it's great that some restaurants are trying to fight this. Another way to filter out places I won't eat at.
This webpage has some nice musical examples.

http://www.oldskool.org/sound/pc/#digitized
The thing I don't like about alternate sleeping schedules is they usually include, as this one does, a warning to stick to it and go to bed at the set hours even if your not tired.

Personally if I was going to embark on this I wouldn't be very formal about the timing and just sleep when I got tired. I guess another thing that makes a big difference is if you have somewhere to sleep that you can make mostly dark during the day or will you frequently be going to sleep in a light room.
BTW, these are 100 byte records, so 1TB = 10 billion records.

I don't know why they measure in bytes, which is nearly meaningless. I can sort a single 1TB record in my head right now. There, I'm done.
Interesting tidbit from their about page "Day Software has been a leading force in the open source community. Day Chief Scientist Roy Fielding was co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, author of the Apache Software license, and creator of the Apache web server." - Roy Fielding also being the PhD behind REST
I suspect that a problem inherent in many organization's data is that the semantics are often the thorniest part of the integration process. So the "translation layer" that is described by Mr. Fayyad in the article is no small undertaking. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that in many cases, data is collected for a primary purpose, and once you start digging, you realize that it's not as useful for secondary purposes without a lot of work.

The best example of this I can give from my experience is medical data. Lots of people want to do studies based on the wealth of data stored in electronic health records. Indeed there is massive potential for scientific discovery just sitting there. The problem is that health records are optimized for their primary purpose: recording information about a patient so their doctor(s) can make informed decisions based on that individual's history. Once you start looking at aggregate data from them, all sorts of nuances start to creep in and bite you. In order to do a high quality analysis, you usually have to clean and normalize that data heavily. That process requires expert knowledge of medicine, and some parts of it are just not automatable.

You could argue that the data collection process should be modified to allow for better future use of the data (many people do make this argument). The tricky part is doing that while not compromising the primary goal of data collection or adding a drag in terms of cost or time on the organization. These factors are possible to overcome, but are by no means trivial.
I know Opera had them. However this post is about FF4 beta and not Opera. FF4 beta1 did not let you put tabs on the top in OSX so I mentioned that is a welcome change. I made no attempt to justify who got what, when and from who.
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