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browser? os? someone said this on twitter to ericries after he retweeted another article of mine. I looked this weekend/had others ask if they got a warning. Everyone said it was fine. Looking at the .js file now (its some cufon thing) and the source of the post as well. It's part of what im using with elegantthemes.

Update: http://pastebin.com/UNijfWPu is everything contained in the file mentioned (League_Gothic_400.font.js)
> It's not the environment that matters, it's the change of environment.

That's a good point. I think as long as a person doesn't put too much hope into the idea that the environment itself is going to force changes upon oneself, it's a good idea.
...It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and doing the good enough beats reading about the perfect. ..

Cannot agree more ...
Well, personally I think Starcraft is quite an interesting topic (game aside). The whole esports scene in Korea that it's given rise to, the fact that several top ranking starcraft players have gone on to become top ranking poker players. Besides, it's interesting if only as a success story - what is it about it that sets it apart from any other computer strategy game?

I also think Blizzard is interesting from that perspective. It's quite fascinating that they have managed to, on multiple occasions, create franchises so successful that people actually can earn a living playing them, gold farming/selling characters in the case of WoW and esports in the case of starcraft and warcraft. In that sense I think they have something in common with Apple, in that there is something intangible about what they do (quality?) that makes them extremely successful.
Just one example: let's say you want to save an image from a web page to your desktop. With the Apple's trackpad, you can start to drag the image, holding it with your thumb on the bottom of the trackpad, four-finger swipe-up to show the desktop, move the image to where you need it, and release your thumb to drop. Four-finger swipe again to bring back your browser.
We just bought the app.
Whenever I hear that term I cringe a little. I think this was a word invented by developers (please correct me if I'm wrong) to bring sysadmins into the fold. It is definitely good to have an understanding of the application layer but developers also need to understand the systems running their applications.

I work in a large organization (5000+ employees) as a unix/linux sysadmin. You have to automate deployment, monitoring, configuration management because there just isn't time to do anything else. We have a group (about 4) out of 30+ that have an overall view of what you might call devops. The rest specilize in development or sysadmins. We meet once a week and review all progress on the dev/ops issues.

I like the term OpSec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security) someone who looks after Systems/Security ;) Since a good system admin should also know a great deal about security. Maybe Dev/Op/Sec.. haha, but really ;)

p.s. I found that job posting to be full of PR fluff. It would be nice to see job posting actually post what their looking for in a distilled form.
You want to go take a proof-based college math class. Or sit in on one. Or find videos of one. It is hard to guarantee that a course will be like that, unless its name is either "Analysis" or "Abstract Algebra". Don't sell Indian universities short - it's so hard to get a good job in mathematics that you have to go very far down the hierarchy to find a place with bad mathematicians.

And you do need to memorize techniques - the only issue is that the techniques you need to memorize are at a much higher level than you are currently being taught. Techniques include "induction", "contradiction", "diagonalization", "construction", etc. Mathematics is a toolset, and the techniques and facts you learn are the tools required. They are beautiful in themselves, and can bootstrap to better tools, but if you aren't a mathematician then you should be memorizing solution techniques, just at a higher level than you currently are.
I strongly disagree. Not because humor is inherently bad, but because it's too dangerous, too likely to overwhelm the parts of HN that I appreciate. It's like suggesting that a little heroin on the weekend would really brighten up the week. Maybe true, but unlikely remain 'just a little'.

Let's concentrate on content and insight here, and let the other sites be the catch-all communities for those who want more 'balance'. If you enjoy Reddit or Digg as they currently are, or prefer other sites that balance humor and content, please use them rather than trying to remake HN in their image.
"The Universe will always be here. It has always been here. It cannot go away. It is indestructible and everlasting. The mystics understand this, and so does anyone who understands basics physics."

While I'm sure that many mystics have held the idea of an eternal universe, it isn't as universal as you seem to suggest. Virtually all the mystics in the Christian tradition have held that the universe had a beginning. St. Thomas Aquinas is one of the more prominent examples: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1045.htm
One suggestion: I'd put SEO in the pre-launch box. There are significant portions of calendar time involved in SEO, so might as well start the site marinating in the Google juice while you go do other things.

Additionally, there are many, many things you can do for SEO which don't require your product to exist. You don't have to have a solution available to show to be able to, e.g., blog about the problem domain, create resources which solve problems for the people you hope will eventually give you money, start pushing the emotional buttons of folks in the niche, etc.

AdWords, on the other hand, you can put off until you have reason to suspect that you'll be able to do it profitably. (If you can't make money with a customer acquisition cost of zero from organic search, it is unlikely you will be able to make money on AdWords.)
I can't get my head around how Apple manages to come out with products that are cool enough they could come from a startup with some very motivated founders working day and night.

Almost all other companies with >100 employees are turning out mostly crappy products that no one gets excited about. When's the last time you talked about a Xerox printer or HP laptop? In my mind this is why a company like Nokia can't make a comeback into the smartphone market: they're probably unable to motivate a small team and then let them work out a cool product. Or they can't amortize away the risk of that team being on the wrong track, the way most startups are.

Apple can consistently pull this off, how do they do it?
A termination fee that decreases with time. It makes no sense to pay full-price for a phone in the USA.
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Um, I think Taleb made a fortune in the stock market meltdown, and he's also incredibly well read and intelligent, so I think you don't really know what you're talking about. My guess is that you're reacting based on my comment about sugar and carbs. I am sorry that it is challenging some of your closely held beliefs and sense of reality. To discuss food is a taboo and if this were in person I would have just changed the subject, but you asked for the truth. Watch the UCSF doctor's lecture.
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Don't sell Indian universities short. It is very hard to get a job in mathematics, which means that even at "bad" universities the mathematics faculty can be quite good.
great point. updated post and linked to this comment. Gracias amigo.
finally got my http://zemanel.posterous.com up.
Here's the rspec ticket to keep an eye on:

http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues#issue/140
Thanks Jason! That's what I was assuming.

Is this the first time you guys have bought an app from another company like this?
I think Coders at Work and Founders at Work did a pretty good job with this.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219483/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430210788/
I started taking 1400 IU per day a few months ago and I don't feel any different :-(

So I'm left wondering, did I not need it, or am I not taking enough.
That's a valid point, not everyone labeled a "mystic" holds the same viewpoint. I don't consider Aquinas to be a mystic though. :-p

I should have been more specific, but it's rather difficult to be specific w.r.t. definitions of who is a mystic and who is not, it will likely lead to needless debate. :-\

I just hope that those who have studied a bit of comparative religion (and eastern religions specifically) will know what I'm referring to.
Your Vitamin D deficiency and lack of exercise is probably causing part of your depression.

Try to get one hour of sunlight per day and one hour of exercise per day. Two birds with one stone: go jogging for one hour per day, every day, no matter what.

For me, I couldn't wait to finish my hour of exercise so I could go do something challenging and important, like work on your big idea.
so we should cause freight prices to go up (which will increase the cost of food, clothing, stuff that literally everybody needs and buys), so that travel prices go down?

who has time and money to travel? not the poor.
who buys food? everybody, including the poor.
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lhorie,

What is your company?
Have you considered the possibility that the paleo diet may be one of those rare things that is horribly flawed in theory but works just fine in practice?

You're correct that there's no good nutritional reason to only eat "paleo" foods (though certainly, almost all the foods that you should definitely avoid, like chocolate, chips and cheesecake, are non-paleo). You're also correct that a modern "paleo" diet doesn't have all that much in common with a hunter-gatherer's diet anyway.

But as a useful heuristic for coming up with a healthy diet for weight loss in the modern world, it's not too bad. If you're trying to lose weight only three things really matter:

a) Are you maintaining a calorie deficit?

b) Are you getting enough nutrients?

c) Is the diet easy to stick to, or does it make you hungry/give you cravings?

The paleo diet seems to work fairly well by all of these metrics. It's really just a standard low-GI diet with a few other things unnecessarily banned (beans, dairy). The restrictive nature of the diet means you eat a diet rich in meats and vegetables, which are nutrient rich and fill you up with relatively few calories. The low-GI nature of the diet stabilizes your blood sugar and stops you getting the hunger pangs you'd get on a more carb-rich calorie-restictive diet. And it seems to be relatively easy to stick to with only a moderate amount of willpower -- I've been on it for nearly three weeks now and the idea of eating a brownie just gives me a headache.

I don't think I'd recommend it to anyone trying to maintain weight, since I think it would be difficult and expensive to consume enough calories for a healthy lifestyle without eating modest amounts of grains. And the prohibition on beans and dairy is probably unnecessary. But as a workable heuristic for weight loss, "eat paleo foods" isn't half bad.
Anyone know what's going to be next after Hacker News?
It produces an uncaught Security error" code: "1000 [sic weird quotes] in Firefox when the Firefox pref dom.storage.enabled is set to false. Here's how to catch it: http://github.com/stepahn/Modernizr/commit/6ab14fff80c8e1c01...
I haven't seen any Google-owned scraping or aggregating page in a result that I've clicked through.

What about Google Health results? Try [Whooping Cough] or similar. Top 'result' is a Google health page whose main column is all content republished from Medline. Right column is essentially 'more results' from News and Scholar.

It's not quite as bad as other paste-together pages of text and more results, but they're creeping in that direction.
Virus warning specifically suggests the Cufon font file contains a link to a compromised site.
When a doctor says you have a "malignant neoplasm on the trachea", he is being precise, not obfuscatory. When technical language confounds us, our problem is ignorance; we have come to a place where we do not yet know the names, and time and study and attention will make things clear to us. When obfuscatory language deceives us, we have come to place where the doors have been closed in our faces. That is the difference. And that the doors have been closed out of habit or fear, and not out of malice, does not help us at all.
That's the same reason Atlanta's MARTA doesn't extend into Cobb County. I don't think it has much to do with intercity rail, though; it seems to be mainly an issue with opposition to metropolitan-area rapid-transit systems, with people worried that they'll blur boundaries between nice and not-nice neighborhoods within the same city.
> I do my best to eat better, but it's as easy to lose focus on planning my meals and learning to cook as it is to lose focus on coding my latest idea.

You don't have to learn how to cook to eat better. You simply have to stock your kitchen with better food.

It's easy to make simple nutritous meals. Cooking skill merely makes them taste better.
have you explored alternative prescriptions? I've heard that some doctors insist on starting with non stimulant medications, even though for most people they are ineffective, and even that aside among the stimulant prescriptions, some people only respond to some of them. Also, at least with the stimulant ones, if they're effective, it should be obvious from day 1.

That aside, getting regular sleep where 8+ hrs is an option is important, as is being able to recognize when you're not going to get any work done during a day, and readjust your day plans to accomodate that fact.

also, if you've been diagnosed with the inattentive rather than either the joint or just hyperactive subtype, i've heard that most effective treatment options are different.

But first, if you doctor hasn't prescribed any of the normal stimulant treatments, go yell at him, please. Irrespective of cultural stereotypes regarding stimulants, for those who have adhd and don't have a history of being inclined towards substance abuse, stimulants in the immediately soluble and/or dissolved during digestion over time formulations are by and large the most effective and safest treatment option. Also, even if your activity level and food intake remains the same, you'll probably lose some excess body fat, though presumably you should then adjust your diet and activity level to be more active and to stabilize your weight (as in exercise more, and eating a healthy active person diet).

And to repeat whats definitely been said elsewhere is also important, its all about changing your habits gradually towards what you'd like them to be
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What you describe as 'being HN smart' sounds like what would be described as karma whoring on Slashdot or Reddit.

And I think it's looked down on for a reason. The things that will get people to upvote you are not always the things that will look good on your resume. Often they break down after further scrutiny, and if someone is actually looking over your comments carefully (though who really has that much time on their hands.)

Just try not to be an ass, and if you don't think it meets HN standards, don't say it. I'd also say don't bother praising YC startups and the regular luminaries of the community - everyone else can do that easily enough on their own. But then I'm new here.
Firstly, most web applications to date do not:

1. Work offline.

2. Provide sub-20ms interface switching response rates.

3. Protect the interface against extended network or server failure.

4. Buffer against poor network performance.

So I would agree with you that they have "managed to do without it" (code-sharing) so far. But they have done so only by avoiding responsibility for these goals, by considering them a convenience, or by not considering them at all.

Secondly, I can tell you from experience that a non-Javascript server-side framework can do the above but only with difficulty. Existing popular frameworks do not provide "convention-over-configuration" assistance in terms of straddling the network or exposing Model definitions to Javascript etc. They render interfaces on the server-side, rather than letting controllers and views interact on the client for example. Indeed it would not even be fair to expect these frameworks to meet the above requirements, simply because they were not designed to do so.

Eventually one must arrive at a realization that web applications (as distinct from "web sites") will mostly be written in the same language AND framework on both client and server. Fear not, this will probably be more fun.
As for carbs, basically they are just complex sugar and don't add a lot nutrition value. Once they break down they will cause insulin spikes... Obviously some carbohydrate is necessary and good for you but the less the better.

Any reference for this? Pretty much everything I read about nutrition says this is total bull.
Your statement is not true, and the link you provide does not support it.

The spontaneous creation of particle pairs is not at all an example of "something from nothing", but simply an illustration of "something from something". Vacuum energy is not nothing. That should be obvious.

A proper understanding of what "nothing" means would prevent misunderstandings such as this from coming up. Nothing is literally, nothing. Non-existence. In other words, by definition, you'll never find it.
Intel wants the money from putting out a chip that is used by a volume of devices that dwarfs the PC world. The biggest problem is that customization is king in the mobile arena and that is not Intel's sweet spot. They are making moves into that area with the Atom (although IMHO they mucked it up http://bit.ly/d9GJIM ), but really hope the customization trend dies and they can sell bulk of a certain design.
My advice
-get a different job. My salary goals have rarely been met by staying at the same employer.
-Find your sport. I am biased, but I highly recommend cycling. Join a bike club, find people to ride with on meetup or OKC. You will be amazed how fast you will get in just 2 months of riding consistently.
My personal favorite is Kirchoff v. Flynn, both for the hilarious recitation of the facts and the thoughtful discussion which follows: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1026610171128348...

Incidentally, I've become helplessly dependent on Google Scholar for looking up legal opinions. Despite the very simple interface and relative lack of advanced functionality, it just works so speedily and consistently. San Francisco has a fantastic free law library where I can use Lexis & Westlaw, but the experience is unpleasant, to say the least.

One nitpick I do have with Scholar, though, is that there's no easy way to correct errors - for example, there's a case I've looked at several times where the first party's name is misspelled in the title, so if I'm inspired to look it up again for some reason my first attempt fails until I remember to use multiple search terms.
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+1 to paying attention to your surroundings, and making sure you maintain joy and fascination in the small things. I think it's something that many if not all adults could learn from, and it's something that kids are great at teaching us.
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Have you heard of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy?
There's an app for Android that has some of that functionality called Gmote. It controls VLC quite well and allows you to browse your computer for movies and music to play, although I don't believe it has the extensibility that you mention.

http://www.gmote.org/
I really wish I didn't down-vote this. I got derailed by what I thought was going to be a short-sighted rant about Christians and Glenn Beck. In short, however, I think you're right on the money.

Many Christians I know refer to modern evangelical Christianity as "evangelicalism." It connotes a social construction that has its roots in church life, but its purpose is a far cry from a biblical understanding of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. IMO, this accounts for the rise of Beck, Limbaugh, and other talking heads. They preach a message that isn't watered down. They sound impassioned and convictional, unlike the guy standing in front of them on Sunday morning.
I don't know Pakistani, but I don't think that's the cause of the awkward phrasing. It's more likely that he has picked up bureaucratic English too well.
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Before I edited, I originally wrote that my understanding about carbs is a vague intuition developed from listening to body building friends, etc. However, I realize that's not a good source so I deleted that paragraph. My apologies for the confusion.
At one time, I was not happy with who I was. The interesting thing is that I did exactly this, what you just described, without realizing until now what I was doing or why. Within a few years, I feel like I knew who I was and who I wanted to become. Now my ideas for my desired self have since changed several times (that is growing up after all), but I've been happy with life in general for much of that time.

That being said, I did enter a dark period that lasted about 8 months after graduating college. I got a job that sounded good on paper. In reality, I was not happy with it, and it did not align with who I wanted to be. It got really bad. It's amazing how detrimental it can be to spend your life doing something that you know isn't you.
Well, at least I got the email bit right :)

It's disappointing to see how much stuff gets announced here and how little of it is still alive a year later.
That's because the Internet is full of trolls and you can't tell the difference between someone poking fun at himself or some idiot who believes what he's saying.

September comes every year :)
Will Qualcomm, NVidia, Samsung, and Apple have the same relationship with Intel that they have with ARM? The indications are no and that means Intel is not just competing with one company.
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> I wonder, do phone users in the USA really fall for this trick of hiding most of the price of handset into recurring payments?

But that's not what happens here. There's no hiding of fees when I will pay the same base price regardless of phone (smartphone or otherwise) and will pay the same data charges regardless of which smartphone or whether I brought the phone with me or got it subsidized.

You are just throwing money away if you don't take the subsidy. Early termination fees decrease over the contract and are less than the subsidy to begin with. Most people will stay with their provider and you're better off paying the termination fees even if you think you might not.

The reality here really is $199. Basically this translates into not being able to get a really cheap plan for minimal usage short of going the pre-paid route. While not much to be happy about as a consumer, at least rates to mobile phones are reasonable here; look at VoIP rates to mobiles around the world (usually 5-10x higher).
I was one of the original users of Digg (closed beta tester). It was pretty good in its day, too -- a lot of programmers and technical articles. I think Digg and Reddit are pretty much identical in that sense.
> By definition, an efficient market has all the publicly known information already encoded in its prices. Hence, even theoretically it's impossible to beat the market without doing insider trading, which is considered illegal and hence "cheating".

Umm, no.

Illegal insider trading is defined as trading on information that is not yours. There is relevant non-public information that doesn't qualify as "not yours".