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This submission on HN links to a blog post which links to the story in Scientific American about the study in Psychological Science about Designer knockoffs.

The blog post links to Sci Am saying read more on SciAm, however SciAm appears to be behind a paywall.

I would love to know if the original Study lists how it was funded.
So, if you were sued for patent violation and had to pay up, do you now get your money back?
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Even at http://jsmag.com I still use the word 'JavaScript' regularly, but do think JS works better. I've similarly been bugged by the naming since the early days, and the continual confusion with Java even these days still irks me.
But note that there aren't any slowpokes here, instead, every single car is blocked by the car ahead of them. The people behind you think that you are the slowpoke driver. But nothing is blocking the traffic, instead the average speed of the long column of cars is determined by the spacing between cars, and that spacing is determined by psychology.

In light traffic, some people go far faster than average, but nobody tries to stop them. When we arrive at heavy congestion, don't we suddenly decide to close up ranks to prevent aggressive drivers from passing, stop them from "cutting us off?" If everyone habitually blocks the speeders, then it means we've compressed the traffic pattern past the peak of maximum flow, and pushed it into the unstable realm of stop/go oscillations and standing waves or "ghost jams."

Want jams to vanish? Then do as the pro truckers do and just freaking back off. Happily encourage other cars to merge ahead. (They're not "cutting you off," there's no such thing as "cutting you off." They're just trying to merge into the adjacent lane!) If traffic momentarily slows way down, everyone just make sure to keep an open space that allows merging, and you'll find that it speeds right back up again.
I disagree. Privacy concerns are not over intentional sharing but over unintentional sharing.

Unintentional sharing on facebook is solely caused by its horrendous interface. The interface makes it too hard to precisely determine what is being shared to whom. Given that cognitive faculties and time are limited resources, the average user will not have time to decipher facebook's sharing settings. The result is they have a high likelihood of unintentionally sharing information, resulting in privacy concerns.

In real life, if I tell something to a trusted former high school friend living in a different state, I can assume at over 98% confidence that my boss at work will never know the content of the conversation. They are two completely distinct social circles, or groups of friends. The channel of communication is different for different groups of friends. This is how real life works.

People expect a well designed website to work in the same way.
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That seems fair, then. If, as an advertiser, you are charged per impression, and you receive no impressions, the advertiser is not charged.

Also, can any HN Adwords users comment on their experiences using Adwords to advertise to Gmail in terms of effectiveness?

It seems to me that a large portion of the ads (gmail) are from unsophisticated Adwords advertisers that have not configured their campaigns properly.
I would also add Southwest to that list. The reason I don't use sites like Orbitz, Travelocity, etc... isn't because they are hard to use it's because Southwest is nearly always the cheapest and they don't jerk you around. I once bought a flight on Continential over Southwest to save literally 4 dollars. I've never been so sorry about a purchasing decision in my life. Long story short Continential was so bad I never actually made it onto their flight I ended up booking a Southwest flight instead. After that I don't even check any sites except Southwest.com anymore for domestic travel.
If you like this genre make sure to catch TimeCrimes, quality spanish movie in the same veign :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/
You created an account an hour ago and this is your first comment? I hate to get too meta, but this seems pretty astroturf-y.
you need to recommend products. I've had some success w/ list posts full of recommended products.
Namesecure.com has worked for me for the past 10 years ;)
It isn't actually a contraction because people create groups or join groups based on a real relationship whether a common interest, common event, or common context. Each group is silo'd from the others and if you aren't in any other groups you won't know about them.

The connections between groups only happens when people you get to know in one group start to build a real relationship that expands outside of that current group's context and lead to the creation of another group whether for another shared interest, or temporary event.

As people create more and more of these groups and these "mini-Facebooks" start to overlap users a new social graph starts to take shape not based on a 1 to 1 friend request but on real relationships, topics, and events.
It's a numbers game. I'll take a guess and say that you are running a blog. In that case, contact some companies and sell some ads directly. It's a long shot in all directions. At most, you should be able to sustain a hobby. If I'm wrong about the blog, sorry -- I have a blog that has a similar problem, but it's a hobby.
When did 4 years become "ages"?
I don't think it's a stretch to assume that those who capitalise Scala might be somewhat more geeky?

Scala should always start with a capital letter (it's a proper noun). People who use the lower case version either don't know, don't care, or are typing on a mobile keyboard.
The reason I found it interesting was that the news about 'hundreds' of Earth-like planets (using a very ballpark description of 'Earth-like,' of course) filtered out back in June in the usual fairly low-key fashion.

This announcement refers to a 'new discovery about an intriguing planetary system' - in other ones, just one solar system out of the hundreds of possible candidates. Maybe it's nothing more than extreme cleverness being used to confirm one of them has 3 or more planets (which would be significant in itself), but I sense a mystery - either something we'd never seriously considered before (like planets with overlapping orbits?) or else something that looks unexpectedly familiar.

Most exciting of all would be confirmation by some other observation platform of something interesting at a particular location - the plan is to work with other observatories to take a more detailed look at interesting candidates (see http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/keplerm-201005...). Small hope of that right now, though.

If you want to study the date yourself, it's available via http://archive.stsci.edu/ and http://nsted.ipac.caltech.edu/; http://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2010/speaker_talks/Plavch... gives a quick rundown on what you need to know in order to work with it.
(I really wanted to write a reasoned rebuttal, but the more I read your posts here the less I can figure out exactly what you've intended to say. Maybe some of this disagreement is due to a misunderstanding over writing.)

There are quite literally thousands of relevant journals for a college to subscribe to, and institutional access is fantastically expensive. In fact, the cost of journal access here in the US has expanded year over year far faster than inflation or any other information resource, and now consumes the majority of library budgets at many colleges.

That "free access" you were talking about for students? Physical Review alone runs from $17,000 to $32,000 annually. Now imagine maintaining a few hundred of those subscriptions.

On the other side of things, I have published in Physical Review Letters, and was disillusioned with the editorial/peer review process. You're hopelessly constrained for length, but asked to remove key sentences while expanding abbreviations. Because it's extremely difficult to explain your work in such a short space, your reviewers can focus on details you know deserve explanation but simply can't include for brevity--or worse, misunderstand your research entirely.

Let's face it: this is only a problem for dead-tree publishers. We could double the page limits for online articles at negligible cost, and I would argue, decreased difficulty for reviewers and referees.

Some people have raised more political concerns about the review process, but I don't understand those as fully.

[edit] I should make it clear that I greatly value the work being done by APS and journals in organizing, qualifying, and sharing high-value correspondence. I simply believe there may be a space for open-access journals as well.
If you had said "Heavy metal band, comic book superhero, or TV show" for those three bands I think I might have gotten Iron Maiden right, but if this were Who Wants To Be A Millionaire I'd be asking the audience anyhow.
Well, if you have the resources to get from here to a Mars-like planet, turning it into a habitable world should be trivial, so Mars is Earth-like enough for colonization purposes at least.
Not sure how accurate this is...

http://seekingalpha.com/article/196953-youtube-much-more-imp...

"...we estimate that Gmail had revenue per 1,000 page views of 6 cents in 2005 which increased to about 30 cents in 2009."
I can understand adding stylesheets to GUI. That makes sense, perfect sense even.

But to copy all the flaws of CSS as well?
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Does anybody know if there are restrictions on exporting software using 256-bit AES encryption? If there are, does anybody know a good resource for navigating the restrictions?
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I don't know, I think that's a reasonably long period of time in graphics framework development.
That's a good explanation of what your startup is, and I wish you the best of luck, but you did not answer his question.
if there were 3, hipmunk would have tri-angels... it looks like the article updated the spelling =)
Actually, I am curious as to how many commentors are GOOG shareholders, and consider this an affront.
I love Qt. My current project at work is all Qt, and it is so, so easy. After Gtk (no offense to those guys), Qt is fun.
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Yes! we are up and running at www.frid.ge

this is one of the reasons why we build the Fridge. It is hard to filter and organize your friends into lists, keep track of the privacy settings for those lists and then hope that the people you are friends with have done the same thing on Facebook. People are either not posting real content anymore, not using their real name or are just boring on Facebook

The Fridge interface organized not by friend requests but by groups. Each group is completely private from any other group with it's own news feed where everyone can contribute whether it is for a personal and private conversation, common interests of a specific group, or temporary networks that come together for events, parties, or any social gathering.

People are invited to groups and people follow groups. If you get bored of a group you can leave. If the event or activity is over you can start another group around another event or activity based new or on going relationships.
My GF and I have done a lot of shopping at the Chelsea store from the article. Funny the author pointed out "random Manhattan strangers" as I noticed this yesterday when we did our week shopping.

I think the Chelsea store opened a few weeks back, as someone from our office stumbled upon it and brought back peanut butter filled pretzels nuggets - which were awesome. Needless to say, once I heard they opened a TJ in the area, I had to stop by and experience it.

The Chelsea store is so much more open with high ceilings compared to the Union Square location. If you live in NYC, I recommend shopping in this location.
No. But Virology is and its inclusion there is deferred until the third paragraph. If the point you are trying to make is that you are a representative audience member for this article and you find it more compelling that they used expensive equipment than that their result was featured on the cover of a peer-reviewed journal, I think we can agree that the the writer of the Loyola Medicine press release has taken the full measure of his readership.
As far as I have been able to tell when looking a couple of weeks back the data they are mainly using for ground based confirmations is the stuff from the first few months. There seems to be quiet a big lag time between recording the data and actually getting it out for confirmations which themselves would be taking quiet some time.
Why should there be grant money set aside to cover peer review?

Because we're already paying for it in journal subscriptions , memberships, and publication fees paid by public institutions. We might as well pay something other than a for-profit organization. Elsevier, for example, does something like $600 million in pre-tax profit per year.

That profit comes, in part, from your tax dollars via research grants and public education funding.
They're not items, but I'd say hope, stability, confidence, status, etc.

Really? In the US? In the 70's? This was at the end of the Vietnam War, during the oil crisis, remember?

As a random example consumer confidence at the lowest point during the financial crisis was still higher than it was in 1973 (during the Oil Crisis): http://useconomy.about.com/b/2008/04/01/consumer-pessimism-s...
Venus is also Earth-like in the sense we're talking about here, despite being almoet a thousand degrees Fahrenheit hotter.
Also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628905
My understanding is New Zealand cows are grass fed. Makes a difference, I think. (Irish cows too. Try the Kerrygold Dubliner cheese at TJs. Try the Kerrygold butter too. Now that's butter!)
They have a list of false positives thus far, most of which are binary stars which eclipse each other as viewed from earth.
sad day.
Yes - some people make absurd amounts of F-U money from affiliate deals.
I didn't think it would ever happen either, and then I saw this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=748632

On the essence, though, you're 100% right
It's interesting how the calculation is quite sensitive to your initial capital - if you start with 6.2 million then at age 70 you have about 4 million remaining. Which you then burn through in the next 7 years.
Yes. This is how we designed the Fridge. Each group is an intimate circle of people coming together around a shared context. Could be very large like an event or could be small like a family network.

But because each is separate and you can communicate freely within each group and not worry that it might accidentally get shared to another group you start to see more meaningful engagement.

Now no one can prevent someone from taking a screen shot and sending it out but like hosting a house party you trust that your guests won't be jumping on your furniture or tearing down the wallpaper (unless it is that kind of party...)
Those numbers are adjusted for inflation.
From what I understand of the technology it isn't possible for us to detect this right now.
BTW, the HAT-trie is supposedly a speed improvement over Judy and all other known data structures for that problem. I don't yet understand it well enough to evaluate that claim.
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I'm sorry it was difficult for you to find the necessary resources. On the home there's a link to a series of around 20 YouTube videos, a developer zone with 30 extensive articles, a full and in-sync API reference, and a growing Demo section. You can also sign-up for a free hosted sandbox where you can get started right away, without the need to download or host anything yourself.

If you would be so kind, could you please tell us what sort of resources were you looking for, and where you were expecting to find them? Thanks.
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A practical/immediate suggestion: Forget about reading books and try the following for now.

Don't worry about the language wars. First learn to have fun. Have a go at http://www.tryruby.org - it teaches you to code in Ruby in 15 minutes'ish online. You can type stuff in and try it out immediately. If you like the test drive, then download Ruby and have a go at it.

If you liked that, checkout Google's python class - it has great examples, lectures, and even sample assignments. http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/

They're both competing languages (or so the flame wars make it out to be :) and give you a nice introduction to programming super fast!
It wasn't initially obvious to me, but this is a documentary about text based adventure games: http://www.getlamp.com/introduction.html
Everything that has been written about how anything works explains how it doesn't work the way one might naïvely think. So, read everything that's ever been written about how anything works, and you'll have your answer.
One can only wish. Patent invalidation is not retroactive. RIM knows this all too well, after having paid over $600mn in a suit they lost, only to have the patent office invalidate it a few weeks later.
We made it super easy to invite friends into a Fridge group. Every group has a private invite URL that you can distribute via any one of those platforms. User click it, create a password, and they are in. The group can be small for a few friends or large for an event. Context stays within the group.

Why would you use the Fridge instead of what you are doing right now? With Facebook most people don't really know how to customize their privacy settings and you have no idea how all your friends have it set. If someone shares something with you how do you know their settings aren't public?

And using email has it's own set of problems like long reply alls. Subject matter gets lost in branched conversations. People get added or deleted along the way and emails get lost in a sea of email bankruptcy.

We aren't solving that problem but trying to provide a better platform to interact in groups.
I was working on something like this until BrainTrust.io revealed itself on HN. How do you guys differ from BrainTrust.io or DropBox if you are going more file focused?
Haha, cheap shot, but isn't a good thing that Unix has such a diverse community now? Many years ago, after OSX had been out for a while, even the Mac greybeards started poking at the terminal, isn't that cool? Or does the pool of new users somehow drain from the entire pool?
Can you link to some examples of this? Do you use only dojo on the client side or is there something more?
yes and no. If we look at the economic growth of the past decade a disproportionate amount has gone to the super rich. If it were only healthcare to blame, or even primarily healthcare, then the delta for different income brackets would match historical trends. It hasn't, and healthcare is getting more expensive, and energy is getting more expensive.

It's a trifecta that is going to hurt.
Perhaps it will be related to this?

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v6/n7/full/nmeth0709-487...

EDIT: original PNAS article http://www.pnas.org/content/106/19/7816
TCP was designed to assume that packet loss was due to contention... so if you have random or other non-contention-related packet loss, your sessions will slow to a crawl. In this case multiplexing might make things worse than separate sessions... but you're probably just as screwed either way. What you really need to do is just get them to fix the random packet loss problem you probably have.
Going beyond shady sales practices and bad customer service, I've actually had several registrars (and/or individual registrar employees) try to steal domains from me in the past, In some cases, I had to resort to lawsuits to get my domains back. I own a few thousand domains (no, I'm not a domain squatter), and all of the domains I've had trouble with were very valuable. The worst instance was over a two-letter .com domain. It took almost two years to get it back.

I will not use Register.com, Network Solutions, or InterCosmos Media/DirectNIC ever again. I occasionally use GoDaddy as part of a multi-pronged backorder strategy, but I get my domains out of there as quickly as possible. I will never do straightforward new registrations there again. They did some of the most egregious stuff.

I use several registrars that have been mentioned, but I still haven't found one that I consider both really good and cheap.
It was my last day there.
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It's only a matter of time before one of these kills somebody.
I would too. I think it's best you make a public post about this, I think a lot of people will be interested in this.
If you'd like to see how much work it will be, there's always the rails-upgrade gem: http://rubygems.org/gems/rails-upgrade

Not that it's 100%, but it should pinpoint what you need to update. Lots of stuff is just deprecated, 3.1 will break it.
The solid gold chalk was a bad idea.
I'm not arguing for anything, I'm stating a fact. Users choose more but slower features or in web app terms business people choose more but slower features and throw more hardware at it.

I'd prefer it your way too. One other thing, we're assuming good programmers and that's not something I'd bet on at most places.
Google on "Fundamental diagram" of traffic, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_diagram_of_traffic_... It's a set of graphs. Density plotted against speed, etc. It's old stuff, empirically derived. As flowing cars slowly get closer together on average, drivers slow down a bit for safety, yet with more cars passing per second, so the flow increases. But then as they approach even closer, drivers must greatly slow down because of reaction time issues, even though more cars are packed onto the roads ...and so the slowing dominates the extra cars per mile, and average flow decreases. The peak flow ends up being 30MPH - 40MPH. That flow will most rapidly drain out the backups. I hear that it's a different value in different countries.

But worse is the problem that once everyone slows past the 35MPH hump, traffic becomes unstable, and you get oscillations or standing waves which slow things far more than you might expect.

Rule of thumb (but I've never seen it stated anywhere) 35MPH=51FPS, 3 seconds between cars, gives 150 FEET BETWEEN CARS. Closing up gaps will wreck the max. flow pattern. During congestion, if you start trying to stop others from "cutting you off" or merging ahead, then you're the one causing the jam. (Or to be fair, 30MPH and 2sec gives 90ft spacing, perhaps the bare min.)

Another issue: in 1998 Helbing and Huberman discovered the existence of distinct 'phases' in simulated multi-lane traffic. When all lanes seem to lock together like a moving crystal, that's now called "Synchronous Flow," and gives maximum throughput. But it's on the edge of collapse, and "condensations" are triggered by anyone who tries outrunning neighbors by switching lanes, or who approaches too close and has to tap the brakes. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v396/n6713/abs/396738a0...
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We aren't changing any privacy settings with a bait and switch approach but in fact every group that someone is part of is something they either were invited to and joined explicitly or started themselves and invited others. every group is still private and you only know about the groups that you are in.

As more of these groups are formed we aren't exposing what groups you are in to other people joining. In fact other people joining don't know who else is on the platform unless they are in a group with them.

So this social graph that is being built isn't based on friend requests that have little inherent value but on the different groups you are part of that are based on specific relationships.