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Among singers who have damaged themselves singing incorrectly are Freddie Mercury, one of the best rock singers who ever lived. Over time, he lost his range and stamina, and had to schedule tours in such a way that he had ample time to recover in between performances, otherwise he would lose his voice (this happened once).

I haven't heard him in a recent live performance, but reportedly Robert Plant has also ruined his voice. One person said that he "sounds like Winnie-the-Pooh".
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I agree for the most part , once any one site reaches a critical mass outside of its initial core group , this always happens. While I still enjoy the community, I do find that there are less and less articles about tech and startups and more about random topics. Just on the homepage now I see .. "The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay", "Things I've Learned from Traveling Around the World for Three Years", "An unusual linkage between solar flares and radioactive elements on Earth" .. etc. While all interesting reads, I would prefer to read about them through reddit rather than on hackernews.
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Crunchbase says Groupon has raised $173 million (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/groupon ), so they alone account for a quarter of the money raised in 60606.

I was actually surprised that it was only 23%. I didn't realize how much other funding there was around here.
American Express can afford to give the best deal to consumers because they give merchants the worst deal. That is why so many merchants don't accept American Express.
I think the movie Innerspace is to blame.
we're big believers in that having both been the people who didn't want to be a part of the process :)
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If you're looking for new business ideas, reviewing the Inc5000 is a great way to get started. It's ranked by 3-year percent revenue growth, which is good way to identify industries and sub-niches currently being disrupted.
Yikes, used for $500! Looks like a publishing model that is seriously being missed. I know a screenwriting book that sells for a couple hundred if it can be found. A lot of work to get the copyrights for a short publishing run but sure looks like it could be lucritive.
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Is Google’s Book project just another content scraper?
This article reminds me of two things I've observed in ordinary computer users:

1. Many users don’t understand how or where data is stored or even that it is separate from the application.

That is correct. My photographing neighbour keeps his photos 'in' Adobe Bridge, another neighbour keeps them 'in' Adobe Elements. They don't have a notion that those programs only offer a view on the pictures which are stored in some directory on their harddisk (they don't understand the hierarchical file system either). When they have to import photos from their camera or email a photo, they always do it from their photo cataloging program, never from the Windows Explorer.

Likewise, a few of my collegues think their texts exist solely 'in' Microsoft Word, and that the 'Internet' is the same as the WWW.

2. reversibility

One day I was helping a friend of a friend with transfering some texts over to another computer. We reviewed a text, by accident I deleted a paragraph and restored it promptly with Control-Z (undo). The person was looking flabbergasted at me: 'How did you do that?'. He told me that often when some part of his text 'disappeared' magically without apparent reason, he had to type it all over again. He didn't know that Word has an Undo. I told him he could benefit from a basic Windows and Word training, but he wouldn't hear of that. He did remember the Undo trick, however ;-)
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I up voted this article because it is a constant reminder of the difference between acting and doing.

Also, i loved the part where he was "planning to be homeless" and mentioned that in the case of an emergency, he carried instructions in his wallet to take him to a private hospital, not a public one. Classy.
I didn't believe that cash discounts were OK, so I googled it and found http://fso.cpasitesolutions.com/premium/le/06_le_ic/fg/fg-me... which verifies that you're right.
Ask HN: Ideas for an Unemployed Architect?
Architects study and practice design, and often have strong technical skills even if not specifically related to programming or web design. It would seem these skills should be somewhat transferrable to other domains.
How about 'developing world' instead? Any other suggestions?
Windows DLL-loading security flaw puts Microsoft in a bind
A house is partially consumption and partially investment. If you can't afford the consumption part (mortgage/tax/upkeep payments minus the equivalent rent), then you shouldn't buy it.
Some people may interpret your words in any way that can start a conflict, but I agree with what I think you intended to say. Of course there are plenty of women capable of handling mathematical and technical discussions, but even so, in a romantic relationship people relate to each other at an emotional level.
submissions like this help.
Was he even using any APIs other than audio and basic graphics and keyboard/mouse IO functions?

It's still pretty impressive if he implemented his own sprite class from scratch and built a game with it in 48 hours.
Whatever variation may exist, carbon dating has been independently verified via other dating means such as coral ring formations and dendrochronology. Unless whatever is having an effect on carbon dating also affects these other, unrelated, forms of dating in the exact same way we can expect the variation to be small and not significant enough to upend everything we know. The evidence that our dating mechanisms work is undeniable - tectonic movement, linguistic evidence of language dispersion, physiological changes in species and their geographical distribution, etc etc all happen at predictable rates and all match up with what we know about our dating methods.

Really, creationists should be better suited applying their ultra-skepticism at the much larger gaps in evidence and analysis found in their own ideas. The thing about people who value science is that whenever data presents a challenge we have to account for it, unlike the idiot creationists who only embrace data when it agrees with their already pre-conceived ideas.
Do a little bit of research into Superdome.

HP doesn't make main processors any longer, since they transitioned to Itanium, PA-RISC is gone, and HP sold off its CPU design and fabrication to Intel.
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It would be interesting to see how this fares per-city. States like Texas have much less population density and a ton of start-ups (looking at the list, Houston is very impressive).

A lot of these zips are right next to each other.
It's certainly relative :)

Everyone has their preferred toolsets and frameworks and of course they should use what they feel is most effective. Case in point: my shop uses very little GWT - my coworkers prefer different tools (and often so do I; GWT is overkill IMHO unless you're building something big).

But this is all not really relevant to my point:

I was talking more about how the linked-to blog post was kind of web-development-101 stuff that everyone already knows and somehow, sadly, still received many upvotes/comments. I only brought GWT into the mix because some guy wrote a blog post about listening for URL hash changes and is presenting it as the future of web development, while (using GWT as an example) people with PhDs have written an optimizing Java to Javascript compiler and engineered very good solutions to difficult client-side web development problems that completely trivialize something as basic as hash change history tokens.
Just saw this in the productivity section today. Although I don't use Heroku, it looks nicely executed.

One suggestion I have on your website: I think you should follow through with the actions you demonstrate on your video. You do so when on the console. But when you show off the "Add Collaborators" and the email function, it just feels weird to see the cancel button clicked so much. This is pretty minor, but just something I noticed.
There's nothing which makes it off-limits either. In fact, Article 1 s.8 specifically grants the power to Congress '[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries,' which is why the Library of congress exists to begin with, and if you want to sue someone for infringing your copyright it helps considerably to have your work already registered in said Library of Congress.

Making that information digitally accessible would seem to be a natural extension of that, in much the same way that being able to look up regulations, legislation, court decisions etc. online has vastly simplified and lowered the cost of research. True, there's nothing explicit about the internet in the Constitution. I sometimes wonder how you can bring yourself to use the internet, considering how it's an out-of-control government boondoggle and all.
Yeah it's just like the whole "Fail" meme. It's indicative of how demanding people are becoming that they no longer can be bothered to write a sentence or even conjugate a verb to express their disgust with some flaw that catches their attention for a microsecond.

I think Louis C.K. captured the essence better than anyone (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1885790,00.html)
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This discussion often happens around JVM languages or dead-end projects that will need to be maintained until the end of the universe. If that's all that remains, then yeah, I'd say Java is dying, because people won't be actively writing new, interesting code in Java.

A couple of projects that suggest Java may not be dying (quite yet) are Roo and GWT. Roo is a spring-based framework that is very Rails-esque in terms of getting a web application up and running very quickly, though I haven't looked through much of the code. GWT is (as almost everyone knows) a very powerful framework for creating rich internet applications. It's a really major departure from page-based technologies.

Aside from that, there are still other projects like Guice, Gin, Struts 2 (and other MVC frameworks), ORM type work, and so forth (many of which are often used with GWT and are rolled into Roo).

While I've looked into these, none of them are enough to make me want to make a switch (back) from Ruby to Java programming. But I do think there's still enough going on there that I really wouldn't say Java is dying as a language that people use to build web applications (and I don't mean purely as a JVM or legacy code thing...) Some of the top innovation is still happening in Javaland.
"He said she said" isn't argument from authority - it's blind dictation.

If one side is telling the truth, and the other is deliberately lying (the health care bill will form death panels), then by reporting a "he said she said", you're telling half of the lie.

I saw an article in the NYT last week on the fact that 25% of the country apparently thinks Obama is a muslim. Not once in the article did they clarify that the man is, in fact, not a muslim. "Teach the controversy".
I agree. The best part about hackernews was it was all about startups, programming, and technology and it was well populated and intelligent. At first non-relevant topics quickly disappeared, then a few hung around, and now the site is approaching the level of reddit clone.

I think I'm going to go protest this now and flag every non-relevant topic on the front page.
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Can you elaborate on the suspiciousness for a lay audience?
I think you mean anecdotes :)
Thanks for the suggestion. I definitely need to rework the video. It was thrown together at the last possible moment yesterday when I saw the app was in review.
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What I've realized is that people hate being bored more than they hate anything else, even being lied to.
If he plans to continue development on that code, then upgrading will pay dividends. If not, keep running the old code. Who's holding a gun to his head? Should progress stop to support all the old untouched projects in the world?
John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are two exceptions. It's absolutely riveting television (to me) to watch people being caught in their lies, but somehow those two guys have a millionth of the viewers of major cable news networks.

EDIT: News networks, I might add, which have a tin ear towards hypocrisy. The simplest lie passes without criticism.
> in the case of a small startup or egalitarian cooperative, this effect disappears

Not sure about that egalitarian cooperative counterexample. As shown whenever people are co-opted into a cooperative, "all animals are selfish, but some animals are more selfish than others."

However, your startup example is certainly in line with other research suggesting cooperation among kin:

http://svenssonresearchlaboratory.blogspot.com/2009/04/under...

Perhaps the key is the social networking mentioned in this link. These students in this submission's article were not necessarily part of a social network. This has implications for the HR department when a company grows large enough to have a "company culture".
I disagree with this post. OP is a poopoo face. But what do I know, I'm just a burnt out software engineer looking for some interesting tech links.
This article talks about consumer software, but most of the issues are applicable even to relatively technical enterprise software. The end users of this kind of software generally have a lot of expertise in their daily routines, but stumble when they are asked to use the software to do something outside of their typical use patterns. It's important to stay humble and realize that the software you're offering to a customer is, in all likelihood, going to have a relatively small (but hopefully positive) impact on the user's life, and in these cases the users are not going to want to spend a lot of their time mastering your software.
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Downvoted for not being sexist, fantastic!
Someone mentioned this in the comments, but I'm curious about the outcome of the Node.js spike as well.
Great article!!
A decent portion of the names mentioned in that post are signed up for cryonics: Kurzweil, Hanson, Minsky, and Yudkowsky. It makes sense in hindsight. These people put a very high upper bound on what future technology can accomplish.

Sources:

Kurzweil and Minsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcor_Life_Extension_Foundation...

Minsky: http://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/meetsciadvboard.html#minsky

Hanson: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/12/we-agree-get-froze.htm...

Yudkowsky: http://lesswrong.com/lw/wq/you_only_live_twice/
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Respectfully (you posted anonymously, so I'm not sure this could be taken personally):

Navel-gazing comments like this have always been my least favorite part of HN.

There's no content here. "The best members of the community" --- who are they? Why are they the best? What aspect of their comments are being drowned out or replaced with the mundane?

Sure, there are answers to these questions. At least, things we can come up with, now that the questions have been posed. But your post doesn't address them up front. Instead, it spends much of its time dissecting a discussion of homelessness. I suspect that it's motivated more by dissatisfaction with one comment thread, rather than a careful consideration of the "Hacker News community".

Maybe we should consider carefully whether the deterioration of comment threads has something to do with the commenters, or whether it's a symptom of the site getting more permissive about the topics themselves. Maybe we shouldn't be spending our time talking about homelessness here.
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In case you're curious like me, the story about the intern is here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-th...

TL;DR: They gave him 10k shares in Fog Creek stock if he returned to work at Fog Creek full time after graduating. He went to Google.
That's not a protest. That's what you were supposed to have been doing already.
I have a couple of retail stores. I have them push data into Google AppEngine nightly and have been using a Google Spreadsheet for the "dashboard". It is super cool that Chart.io is supporting AppEngine as a data source.

I have high hopes. I just wish I had checked this out sooner so that I was ahead of the TechCrunch rush in the beta account line.
It's not actually clear, Mark Thoma just blogged about this w/r/t an NBER paper released earlier this month on this same question:

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/08/who...

Conclusion seems to be that job creation happens most heavily in young firms which manage to survive a few years, but that the high rates of job destruction pretty much wash out small businesses gains otherwise. Would be interesting to hear how VC plays into the equation.
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Reasons for community decline, in order of magnitude:
1) Growth
2) People messily suiciding their accounts/participation in dramatic 'this-place-sucks-now' goodbyes in response to #1
3) Snarky followups to #2
4) This is soooo meta
Not only that, but even if the top post is unthinking, inflammatory crap, you need to keep reading. Someone will respond with an insightful criticism. Assholes seem to draw out the smart people.
I went through that book in a Philosophy of Science class, and I too recommend it. I also recommend the class, if you get a chance.

I think it is important for all scientists to understand the history of science and even spend some time thinking about the cultural/societal problems that hamper scientific progress currently.
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Same. Chicago is not a great place to raise money (it is, however, a great, great place to build a company).
Onesie - a Rack middleware to make URLs in one-page webapps easier.
I think your examples, while possibly somewhat contrived, fall quite flat.

I personally would be proud of the fact that I completely ignored anything related to "How I Met Your Mother" to delve deeper into the field of mathemetics, for example. I don't know why ignorance on a subject is so unforgiveable in your opinion.

That said, I quite enjoy HIMYM, but I certainly wouldn't fault anyone else for not having seen it.
I did see a quick twitter check in there

He posted about development progress.
What Apple is attempting to patent sounds almost exactly like the software that was at the center of that school-district spyware scandal a few months ago:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/webcamscanda/
Considering the Library of Congress was established in 1800, and overseen by many of the same people who wrote and ratified the Constitution (Thomas Jefferson personally donated his book collection to it), you must have an understanding of the Constitution quite different from the founders if you think the LOC isn't authorized by it.
Experience. Code with an API long enough and you're pretty aware of the tools at your disposal. At this point you're not learning new stuff. Finally, this likely pales in comparison to what he is typically used to doing.
For instance, eq. (7) used to calculate significance values is the invention of the first author and is not widely accepted. Also, eq. (1) assumes joint independence of all M = 22 frequency bands, which has not been justified.
Ask HN/Review my Startup: Sneffel.com
(I submitted this before, but I've made some changes since then, so I thought I'd try again...)

Sneffel (http://www.sneffel.com) is trying to bring real time collaboration to e-learning platforms. My current attempt at an MVP lets schools create "Sneffel Communities" where they can create new whiteboards, access old ones, and see how many folks are using what whiteboards. Whiteboards are exactly what they sound like: an interactive html5 canvas. You can draw on it, and through the magic of websockets, other folks can see what you do.

(its all html5, so no IE support...yet!)

Feedback, suggestions, criticism all welcome. Thanks!
I just meant that your frontpage is your chance to wow new users with your best content. So over time you might want your most viewed tutorials to show up there not your most recent.
By testimonials I meant if you had some end users write you notes about how much they liked your tutorials you could include snippets of what your users said and which tutorials they liked.
i don't think many people anticipate being homeless and then go and buy homeless gear.

Neither did he. The items he packed into the backpack he had since middle school were a $5 sleeping bag he happened to have in the closet, a few clothes, eyeglasses, a toothbrush, toilet paper and brown sign paper. (I'm ignoring the laptop, phone, camera and notebook, which didn't seem to help him much and were there mainly for documentation purposes).

If I were facing a surprise eviction in 10 minutes, I'd be able to pack far more than that. And as you say, even if I didn't, such things would be available from "help the homeless" organizations.

he just tried to get into places that were more comfortable vs living like the people who were unfortunate enough not to win the lottery.

I missed the part of the story where winning a lottery was necessary to in the park and under a bridge.

I will grant you that his experience is not statistically representative of homelessness as a whole. It's also a poor simulation of mental illness (did he claim to be simulating mental illness?).

But I don't see why you conclude he didn't reasonably experience homelessness.
I'd be particularly interested to know what the JVM spikes were doing with their respective connections. I'd love to profile some roughly-equivalent implementations using Erlang/Twisted/libevent/et al.

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You know how most people decide when someone is telling the truth?

I agree with him = he's honest.

I disagree with him = he's lying.

Very few people care about object evidence that goes against what they believe in.
Noted. I didn't think of it this way! Great idea!
That seems like a poor measure of 'sanity' to me. Dismissing the possibility of something because it sounds ridiculous doesn't make you crazy, just intellectually lazy at worst.

Actively campaigning for a future where humans lose their humanity without the least thought as to the potential dangers? Imprudent at best, crazy at worst.
> Once all books are published (or reprinted) in eBook form, the conversion is potentially something which can be automated for all new (or still in "print" books).

I think that's unlikely to ever happen, though. There are still thousands of even relatively prominent movies available on VHS that have never been released on DVD, due to a mixture of disputes over rights, expense of mastering a DVD from the source material, worry about whether they'd be sufficiently marketable this many years past their release, worry about too many back-catalogue releases cannibalizing new releases, etc.
IE support for canvas is easy with Google's excanvas plugin.
http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/

The name sounds a lot like "sniffle" and a runny nose doesn't remind me of real time e-learning collaboration.

Good luck!