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> there is still a lot of substance in a simply 'Thank you' to be had.

I think this is where we fundamentally differ.

> what exactly are you worried about with having a few thank you posts?

They don't add anything to the discussion. They're meaningless. I'd rather see a story with 100 upvotes and 0 comments than a story with 1 upvote and 100 comments with a full text of "Thank you."
JSON and XML (especially XML) are not better approaches than what preceded them. S-expressions have been around since 1958.
4 in Chinese culture is bad luck because it sounds like "dead." Apple's been there too this year.
The term "hacker" is usually associated with technology and, sometimes, more specifically, with programming, but I don't think that captures the essence of what a hacker is. A hacker is just someone who likes to tinker with things.

The term "things" is intentionally ambiguous because it varies greatly from person to person and includes much more than just technology. Indeed, while hackers usually enjoy playing around with code or electronics, it isn't uncommon for hackers to be well read in completely unrelated subjects such as poetry or martial arts. Such behavior makes sense in light of an inherent playfulness.

It also explains, to a degree at least, the connection to startups. While I'm admittedly ignorant of much of the business world, it seems that startups would be the most "playful" (in sense that startups provide the most room for trial and error). Larger or more established ventures are sort of "on rails." They already have momentum and don't want to jeopardize it so they'll naturally be more hesitant to try new business strategies, especially ones without a proven track record.

Essentially, what defines a hacker is the desire to manipulate ideas and concepts, i.e., an innate intellectual curiosity. Most things on HN fall under that umbrella.
I'd do $1m. Gives you some dry powder in case you need it.
I'm running the latest UberKernel at 1Ghz with Govnah set to screenstate 500/1000 (it downscales CPU to 500Mhz when screen is off). This turns the phone pretty damn fast! Lack of graphics acceleration for the OS means animation is still not perfect, but now apps load very very quickly. (Both are available from the WebOSInternal feed via Preware)

The Pre was released with plenty of its hardware capabilities just not utilized! The 3D gfx chip being just one example (the on-board H.264 encoder that's now enabled is another).
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Hacker news is designed for and targeted at hackers. In the sense of the word that means people who write code, not people who break into things. Other people with similar tastes also like it.

Since it's run by YC and the initial users were mostly YC founders, there is inevitably a startup spin to the stories that are popular here. In fact the site was originally called Startup News. But it turned out to be boring to have so much of a startup focus, so we changed the name and the focus to be more general.
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Fwiw, these aren't really "giant squid" in the sense most people think of, as in the elusive Architeuthidae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid), but the much smaller and more common Humboldt Squid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Squid).

But it does seem they're increasingly prevalent in coastal waters, which might be linked to fishery declines. Here's a 2007 journal article about that: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/31/12948.full
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haha, quite funny. I looked at source code aswell before running it.
"Already a lot of stuff that is good or even great does not get enough votes to make the homepage."

The reason this happens is because stuff scrolls by very quickly, and people are most likely to click on the stories that already have votes. And the first stories to get votes are always the ones from outlets that people are familiar with, like Mashable and TechCrunch. If you split the new page into three universes then all of the stories that would normally get free votes have their vote count divided by three, whereas the other stories do about the same, which is comparatively better than they'd do otherwise. At least this is my thinking. And then you just add up all the votes from all the new pages to determine the front page.
IMO the authors understanding of the LSP is incorrect. The way he uses it ANY change would be invalid, for example adding a new method would change the property of "raises AttributeError when attempting to access XYZ" (in Python parlance).
His lessons aren't Teaching Company level, and he could definitely benefit from doing multiple takes and splicing them together. Still his style works for me, and I'd happily trade in any math teacher I ever had for Khan.

It's an unfortunate fact of teaching that certain styles just don't work for specific personalities. One person's harmless eccentricity is another's grating lesson-derailer. There are going to be some people you can't do much to help, no matter how good you are, or how attentive the student is. And it's not anyone's fault.
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When I used to spend a lot of time at the Bellagio I frequented a sushi/hibachi grill restaurant called Shintaro that had a bunch of jellyfish tanks in the sushi bar area. They would alternate background lighting colors for aesthetics. It looked awesome, but when I asked them about maintenance they said, and I quote, "jellyfish very hard keep alive".
Pardon the bluntness but what exactly did you ship? All I see is a page, with some JS, that tells me absolutely nothing about what the supposed product is or does, aside from scrolling pictures. Oh, and you ask for an email address. For what exactly?

Again, pardon the bluntness, but this non-sense needs to stop. You ship when you make stuff available to your customers so that they can pay you. Or, in other terms, you ship when you do "git branch prod-yyyymmdd.001".
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Ok...after many requests, I have updated the copy to indicate that.

Thanks.
He said he went to UCLA (so I knew he was from the states or at least accustomed to the culture/lingo), he also used the word 'Conservatives' as a label for a group of people which given normal conversational English here in the states means he is referring to people who adopt a certain political position.

For the record, conservative is actually a pretty poor adjective for the US political movement that bears the name. While some old fuddy-duddy white dudes may hanker for the days of old and wish we could go back - most people my age are 'conservatives' because we are against the growth of government and its encroachment into our affairs. We dont want to conserve anything, we want to change it and make it better.
You've fallen into some universe where you've become the character Monk, and you're the only one who's bothered by Khan's presentation!
it turned out to be boring to have so much of a startup focus

Glad I'm not the only one that thinks this!
I hope this isn't too off-topic, but since this is the perfect mix of hackers + people interested in education...

Quizlet.com is the startup I'm working on and we're also hiring. We're a for-profit but strongly educationally focused web company trying to help improve the way people study online. Different than (complementary to) Khan Academy, but gaining traction with 1M+ registered users. Get in touch if your interested.
In the sense of the word that means people who write code

or more generally, people who like to tinker for discovery and exploration. code just happens to be the easiest medium in which to do so :)
> my next phone is more likely to be an iPhone, where I know I'll get timely updates.

One significant update per year, on which Apple has disabled half of the features because you don't have the latest model?
I too love the Pre. I've used iOS devices a ton, and Android a little, and feel qualified to say the WebOS is just hands-down the best. You're right about the screen, you have to get a protector for it. App support is relatively minimal, but at the same time still covers most bases.

The best thing about it is the Touchstone. That's one of those things that you can't even fathom how much you'll love until you use it. I even mounted one on my dashboard.
Yeah, Google Voice should add that feature. Or you could build it pretty easily with Twilio.
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This makes used GSM phones more valuable.
It is straight out ignorant to say follow doesn't imply you'll be interacting in the future with that person/company. Like (in itself) is an action verb that implies approval of the subject matter, not interaction. I like articles on HN (by up voting) but that does not mean I want to receive regular updates from the site due to a singular approval of one piece of content.
Don't get me wrong. I totally agree that you made the right choice, especially for the node knockout.

This might be completely over the top but perhaps you should look into lag compensation technique that FPS games use. There is a global state on the server and the clients send their command with a timestamp. The server then looks at the global state XXXms ago.

You're going to need global state and scoring if you ever want a leaderboard (otherwise people will just game it).

You could also just make it so that it doesn't show the clock during the last three seconds or something. Show "calculating..." or something and give people whatever the greatest lag time is grace period.

Anyway, great game. You got my vote.
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The first time it timed out. After I posted that I tried again and it let me create the job and then start it...but then the results were the empty object. This made me think I screwed up my JS, but it's pretty simple and I did test each function individually, so I think it's correct.

Anyway, looking forward to you guys getting the kinks ironed out. Very cool idea.
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It's also a muse application for the design of arc, pg's new dialect of lisp.
One thing different about Facebook is that there are no real alternatives to Facebook, but there are plenty of alternatives to Digg. So it's easier for Facebook to make changes that users don't like, because where are they going to go?
That's probably good advice businesswise, but as a user I sort of like that people aren't really thrown into subreddits. The fact that the smaller ones (not on the front page by default) only have people who went out of their way to find them keeps them a little higher quality imo, and keeps the influx of new users at a manageable pace.
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I know it's fun, but please don't do this. Pun threads are malignant growths. They're easy to reply to, since each individual pun doesn't take a lot of thought. Most upvotes are given out sparingly, for interesting or insightful comments, but everyone involved in a pun thread votes up the rest of the comments in the thread. This leads to a self-perpetuating cancer with no real meaning or value to anyone but its contributors.
nice hacker news shout out in here :)
Once again reminding people to be careful about how they interpret the LSP:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7zy40/writing_u...
"You have died of dysentery".
Youtube is improving.

They have votes now. I've seen a few insightful comments there (it depends on what kind of video you're looking at, of course - you being the crucial word here.)
A much more thorough discussion of this cultural icon than yesterday's Telegraph article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645180), so excuse me for supporting it with a rehash of my comment there -

The OED is the #1 item on my geek to-buy list. Even as a bespoke item (possibly more than the $1600 mentioned here) I hope the 20+ volume edition of OED3 is ultimately available. I may be able to justify the expense in another decade, when it's due for completion.
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I think they should be bought and shut down, simply for non-compliance with any written standard.

Buildings that don't meet building codes get shut down and condemned.
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Looks amazing, direct links to the project and blog:

* http://openbts.sourceforge.net/

* http://openbts.blogspot.com/
There are species of jellyfish that are edible: http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/jellyfish

Perhaps a combination of those "AeroGarden" devices that let you grow fresh veggies and herbs, and one of these jellyfish setups with edible jellies, and you could have your own fresh sushi source (just add rice)!
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Here's an interactive example visualizing average consumer spending: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080...
Not surprising, the MLB has been in a death spiral for decades. Their problems are entirely political. Two teams (and I don't know why this article mentions the Dodgers, they're not even in the top 10 in terms of revenue) make the majority of the sport's money, and even among them one is far larger than the other. The entire sport revolves around the Yankees and, to a lesser extent, the Red Sox.

Those teams' considerations are given undue weight when determining league policy and have been for what in the sports world would be considered an eternity. This has led to a league designed to keep the Yankees winning and the Sox picking up their crumbs, which might seem great to the 25% of baseball fans who love one of those teams but alienates the rest.

Pittsburgh may be gaining $39m a year from revenue sharing, but they're losing a ton compared to what they'd make in a well-run league. If the MLB really believed that a rising tide lifts all boats they'd implement a salary cap and be done with it. The cap (along with revenue sharing) is the biggest reason for the NFL's parity, which in turn has driven the league's success. Whoever your favorite NFL team is, there's a very good chance they've been Super Bowl contenders in your lifetime. Most baseball fans cannot experience this.

For whatever reason, maybe because it was the scrappy upstart and it had to outfox it's larger competitor, the NFL owners have come together in a way that no other sport has to dethrone America's former pastime. If the MLB wishes to compete going forward they're simply going to have to adapt their business practices to align the incentives of the team owners (making money) with that of the fans (winning) and there's no proven way to do this other than a salary cap.
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Back in 2008 I went to a dissection of a giant Squid at Museum of Victoria ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157606211764544... it was a great way to learn about squids. This is what a giant squid really looks like up close ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2676995602/in/set-7215... The bit I like most is the contrast of the previous shot (man waste deep in squid dissection) with this shot of a squeamish reporter ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2676973546/in/set-7215...
I thought this blog would be about how women being anonymous / not presenting as female (in order to avoid prejudice against them) means that it appears there are fewer women in the tech community then there actually are.

For the record I'm female.
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This kind of rant was funny in 1993, on usenet. Today, not so much. There's just too much truly funny vitriol available today, and none of it comes from some corporate trade rag's web pages. The lawyers sanitize away all the funny stuff these days.
I think it's something like one process per "connected" set of windows/frames (those which can talk to each other and thus are expected to be single threaded), plus one per Web Worker (V8 is not threadsafe)
This isn't meaningless.

In some strict sense it is not devoid of meaning the way colorless green ideas sleep furiously, purple monkey dishwasher is, but if you have sufficient experience with human culture to understand the article at all then it doesn't tell you anything you don't already know; people typically don't consider jellyfish as pets.
Generally the advantage of using a thing is that you get a proportionally larger benefit compared to the required cost/effort. Otherwise you wouldn't use it.

I didn't say that the use of the term was illegitimate, part of the reason why "leverage" is so pervasively abused is because it can be legitimately used (or leveraged) so abundantly.

Much like "really" the term "leverage" is almost never needed and abused far more often than used appropriately. Yes, you can really use "really" really very legitimately really often, but that doesn't mean you should, really. The same applies to "leverage" which has been leveraged far past the point of reasonableness into the realm of abuse.

Personally I think the term "leverage" is best reserved for situations where something is put to use in an unusual or especially advantageous way. Making use of an assistant to take care of mundane chores so that you can concentrate on more pressing matters is hardly novel (not within the last few millenia at least), though it is still quite sound advice.
I had the same thought, specifically women who work in FOSS communities anonymously and do independent consulting not being counted as much as those at random tech firms.
What is a hacker?

A hacker is someone whose appetite for the universe is never quite satisfied. The hacker seeks to understand: himself, others, what surrounds him, the tools he uses, the things he enjoys, how things fit together. The hacker seeks to build: ideas, means, practical applications, businesses, cultural movements. Some build just one, some build them all. The hacker seeks to learn, to experiment, to solve, and to learn again.

The male pronoun above is of course used merely out of grammatical tradition. Hackers are male and female, young and old. Hackers are in Silicon Valley and in the middle of cornfields, they are in industrialized countries and in developing ones, they date back centuries before the term was coined and will exist as long as does the human condition.

I guess that turned into something of a manifesto. But that's what I believe is embodied in the spirit of the hacker.
Great post. I don't understand why people have to trap animals like jellyfish and put them in prisons / tanks. Just let them live where they are meant to, the ocean.
Perhaps you could use surprise negotiating tactics -

You: "can I have a mop bucket to take my food home in please?"

Waiter: "perhaps if we just wrapped it in foil ...?"
Kind of surprised it took them this long to include Disqus. Then again, sometimes I wish HN had Disqus.
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"potentially disruptive"? Please elaborate. I find that the ideas mentioned here stem from other ideas mentioned here in a mostly positive fashion.
Or what is difference between paying for spamming ads and paying for google ads?

Oh wait, I know this one: with the second one Google makes billions.
Exactly. It seems to be a general law that the presence of the words "The Truth" on the cover of any book decreases the chance of it actually containing any truth by about 90%.

If you want to know about evolution or the Holocaust then you pick up the book called "Evolution" or "The Holocaust", not "The Truth About Evolution" or "The Truth About the Holocaust".
I've been on the other side of this as a Wall Street trading intern. As a college senior in 2007, my future employer hosted a party in NYC for all those who had accepted their job offers. Keep in mind, this is for people who had already agreed to take the job -- not for potential candidates. Still, they flew us to NYC from our respective colleges, put us up in a really nice boutique hotel, reserved a very nice restaurant for the night, paid for our drinks, drove us around in limos, served us brunch, and flew us back to NYC the next day. It was totally outlandish.

Potential employers wine and dine their candidates because, well, that's how THEY would want to be treated if they were applying. Wall Streeters are quite status conscious, so of course they'll try to appeal to candidates' materialism and sense of status. Law firms are no different, though they're probably a bit more modest than your average investment bank.

It's the same thing as Google bragging about their massages and catered sushi. Google is just showing that they have what their candidates care about. Your average tech employee probably wouldn't care, and would maybe even be a little put off if their employer took them to an exclusive club. Wall Street banks are big on expensive dinners and bottle service, but many of them don't even have gyms or subsidized cafeterias, much less free food. My firm didn't even have napkins in the pantry!
What works for me is to estimate how long a project will take if there are no major problems, then double it.
There was a precursor to this project that tried it the other-way-round.

It was a Gecko app with a Ruby interpreter bolted on.

There was so much fail associated with that architecture that the idea of doing Shoes (really simple cross-platform Ruby thick clients) was born.
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Certainly, it would stand to reason that anonymity would skirt much of the issue of bigotry of any kind, at least bigotry targeting other anonymous contributors. Maybe the tech community needs to simply stop being so self-conscious about its demographic makeup.
This is an awfully non-informative article. But apparently they've done... something! And it involves silicon oxide! And somebody stumbled upon it by accident! But for anyone with a knowledge of chip design beyond the "magic happens here" level, it's lacking in detail, with not even a link to the actual article.

Anyone know what they're actually talking about?
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Great news. I haven't used AutoCAD since my high school drafting class, but this will be fun to play around with. Even more so once some more affordable 3D printers become available.
>Ideas can always be stolen.

Ideas can never be stolen. If I have an idea and tell you about it, then you use it, I've still access to that idea and can still use it too.

Yes I worked in IP for a time. Yes I'm a pedant. But there is a very important distinction both morally and legally between theft and copying (eg tortuous IP infringement).
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