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Peldi is a class act.

He's wrong about one thing, though: "I wish you luck, but not too much" is much older than Obama-- here's a usage from 1932: http://books.google.no/books?id=10wCi1LnRFoC&pg=PA15&...
To blindly give your faith to someone because of who they are?

Read my comment again. I never blindly gave him faith. I was pointing out that he's a well-known expert in this field, which is relevant when evaluating the substance of his argument.
And so can C. And almost any language out there with a reasonable implementation. We call that "bootstrapping".

Did you mean something else?
I know it's funny and all, but in all seriousness, perhaps we underestimate just how damaging the rampant, often out of control spam on "the open web" is to the consumer experience. Keeping Apple products clear of that sort of stuff has been a big win for them so far.
And most of the research showing harmful effects of second-hand smoke has funding from either the American Cancer Society or similarly interested bodies.

Indeed, the whole question of second-hand smoke is sort of microcosm of what's wrong with science today. We have two large biased bodies of research, almost no reproducible conclusions or event truly independent analyses, and a popular wisdom which treats the question as `settled' based on which set of conclusions is more in line with the political mood of the times.

I don't know this professor or his work, and I don't have a dog in this fight -- but I don't see why a grant from Phillip Morris would be any more or less suspect than a grant from the American Cancer Society; both are large organizations which depend for a lot of their livelihood on one possible outcome of such research.
Or more probably the artist pages are created by the artists.
My wife's Audi A4 had an analog clock, although her new car has digital. I STRONGLY prefer digital. Setting the analog one was always a pain, and it didn't auto adjust for daylight savings time, like the new digital one does.

I prefer digital clocks as well, but a car adjusting for DST? That seems like a recipe for more complexity, not less. What happens when the DST rules change? Then, instead of manually adjusting the clock twice a year, you have to adjust it four times - once each time the automatic DST change occurs on the wrong date, and again each time to adjust it on the correct date.
Who's with me?

I hope you don't mean with you in shower o_O
It would be fantastic if the candidate could just click a "run" button at any time, and (provided with some input string), see the output.

Of course this would make the pass rate a lot higher... but, assuming you tracked each iteration, would give the recruiter a chance to look at how the candidate goes about identifying their mistakes.
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Hmmm. Apparently he has never shot a grey card (or a Photodisk) or used a densitometer. Or he left it behind as "kid stuff" when he became an expert. One card per day per film lot ought to be enough to make consistent, repeatable prints.

The grey card is also the key to getting professional negative printing done as well. (And there were several entire industries dependent on professional labs. Portraiture, weddings and forensic photography were almost always done on negs, usually Kodak Vericolor 160 shot at 100 or 125, later split between Portra 160 and Fujicolor Reala; the prints from transparencies were too garish for skin tones.) Think of it as "white balance" for film. One standard 18%-grey exposure with push/pull instructions would do for both souping the negs and printing. Get the grey right, and all of the qualities of the light, including filtration, come in the package (modulo reciprocity failure if you print murals from small or medium format).

[Okay, I'll admit it -- as a photographer, I was an immaculate technician but no sort of an artist. It still bugs me that guys like this guy and David Brooks can make a living at the game without knowing any of the voodoo behind what they do. In our world, it's as if Larry Wall really did create Perl accidentally by falling asleep face-first on his keyboard. It ain't right.]
It shouldn't. His point is that if you're 220, what you really want to lose is fat, not weight. Having more muscle will increase your caloric burn rate and actually help you to lose fat faster. This is why dieting must always be paired with exercise.

To take the argument to an absurd extreme, the fastest way to lose weight would be to cut off your leg.

Obviously "losing weight" is really a euphemism for "losing fat."
You've nailed it. All the things that make Apple's business model advantageous – the meticulous scripting, the secrecy, the glossed-over experience – work wonders on hardware. But when it comes to social networks, it's clear that they just don't understand the model at all. Because they can't do ANY of these things and have a successful social network.
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funny the right answer being downvoted without reason
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Larger funding rounds include provisions to protect against such abuses. The ultimate of course is the right to replace the CEO if necessary. In practice they seem to work.
Also prevents you from smelling.
I do some of my best thinking in the shower.

Also, taking walks. A 20 minute walk can really bring clarity.
I'll start off by saying that I personally will probably have little use for Ping. My musical tastes are fairly, shall we say, idiosyncratic.

Having said that, Ping seems to be a targeted product, aimed at a particular audience. It is a sales tool for music. If you fit the demographic it will probably work pretty well. My guess is that computer geeks (include me) are not the demographic Steve is aiming for. If you teenager, and listen to whatever 90% of teenagers listen to these days, then it might work quite well for you.

The product's success will not depend on how well people like the typical Hacker News reader like it...
From the perspective of a customer I would go so far to say that it is unethical not to copy it.
An interesting thing about tcc is how fast it is compared to gcc. If you can use it, that might be a great advantage in development times.
The problem is the difficulty of the second half of "trust but verify."
From the interview: Don’t come up with a view, find everybody who agrees with it, and then say, “Look at this, I must be right.” Start off by saying, “Who do I trust?” On global warming, for example, I happen to trust climate experts, world academies of science, Nobel laureates, and certain science journalists. You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe.

It sounds like he is advocating a trust system based on titles, organization membership, etc. How is this different from trusting them based on authority?
I agree. And this makes it perfect for planning, thinking, note-taking. Hanging around in the garden, the thoughts are coming, hit Omni-Focus or something and develop your vision. Put the device on the side and jump into the pool. It's features are more 'indirect', keyword practicability.
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This is why there are no jobs in America
Flash on Android Slightly Better Than Shockingly Bad
Looks like they collected SSID and MAC address info. It seems that they did nothing illegal, and I fail to see how it's even ethically wrong. They were simply mapping open wifi.
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Sounds pretty different from the "My God, it's full of strip malls!" descriptions I've heard from others.
Could it not be in a meta stable equilibrium like this if the weights were of equal mass? The numbers of the weights are unit-less. We assume they represent the mass, but for all I know the number is the serial number of the weight.
White Holes, the opposite of Black Holes
Also your startup won't have to smell you. Full breakfasts and exercise help too. Also living in a sane country where you can go outside to buy some food, look at people who are genuinely satisfied with life could help, although those countries don't have startup cultures.
All it needs some graphics acceleration so that it doesn't burn the CPU so much.
eh, one thing I find interesting is the divide between the funded and the bootstrappers. I mean, if you are building a company to sell, you will pay capital gains taxes, and thus like things like Obama's proposed capital gains tax break. If you are building a company to run, then the very concept of charging a different tax rate for income and for capital gains seems unfair, because you've got to pay full-on income tax on any money you take out without selling out.
Not taking showers isn't even an option. And I'm European…
That's false. I have never used the word entrepreneur in an essay, except once in a phrase in scare quotes. My essays are addressed strictly to the small subset of entrepreneurs who are starting startups.

If people interpret what I say more broadly than I mean, there's not much I can do about that, but if you go back and look at the actual words I use, I could not be more explicit.
...not to mention this song isn't exactly about diet advice
I think the point is that it should be fantastic for everyone regardless of what or how they listen. It's sitting there managing your music collection, it supplies genius recommendations based on it for goodness sake, a goldmine of data there for the taking. Yet because they've so heavily tilted it towards being an add-on to their shop (more Amazon than Facebook) it's a barren and unwelcoming prospect for anyone who doesn't already live inside the iTunes store bubble.

Maybe that's intentional, if you're not buying then maybe they don't want you in their social network. It's just a bit odd as every other social network is rabidly gathering users and putting off finding a business model till after it hits critical mass.

Also, a social network that only lets people in who have "good" taste would wither pretty quickly due to their limited numbers and wouldn't be financially supportable by Apple. A social network that only worked for people who get their music recommendations from the O.C. and Gossip Girl soundtracks on the other hand might just be some new circle of hell.
I will add the interactive syntax feature seeing that everyone wants it.

Now about tracking iterations, from a candidate's POV, I'd be worried about how my work was coming across, at a stage when I might not be ready to show it yet. I think it's respectful of people's privacy to let them show only the final code that they want to show, and not track their every move on the test. If someone did it to me, I'd be unhappy.
I didn't claim that film was inferior or superior to digital -- in fact, I shoot mostly film and run a color darkroom in my home.

You may not recall, but at the time, 2006, there were many articles declaring the death of film. The film market was rapidly contracting, Agfa had recently gone bankrupt and Kodak was cancelling lines left and right.

The popular opinion was that film would be gone "in 10 years" and Ken Rockwell -- love him or hate him -- was QUITE the agitator for suggesting otherwise.

Happily for those of us who enjoy shooting film, he was correct. Film is the right tool for some jobs and digital is the right tool for others. Film markets stopped contracting and now we're even seeing some new and interesting lines (new Maco/Rollei emulsions new Polaroid integral films, etc).
Has an iPhone/Android app "saved" a Start-Up?
Just how important are Apps to start-ups? Can it be demonstrated that a Start-Up has survived (at least to the next round of funding) because they decided to put out an iPhone or Android app?
Apple's "There's an App for that" marketing is certainly demonstrating the features and capability of the iPhone, but if you think back to the iPod it had far fewer features than a lot of other players (no fm radio, no recording, fewer buttons) and still tremendously outsold everything else on the market. The ads showed people dancing around listening to music, which could have just as easily been used as a product demo for any other music player.

I wonder if it was that they got the few features they chose to implement so right that all the other players seemed broken (most notably integrating with the biggest online music store on the planet). It could also have something to do with the feature of being stylish.
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Better health through social networking
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My main beef was with the last bit - ""Infinite length" files allow sloppy, disorganized thinking and bad factoring. Definitions become longer without the discipline imposed by the 1K block boundaries. The tendency becomes to write a 20K file, or worse: a 20K definition." This reeks of Stackholm Syndrome, where having toiled under the limitations of a system for some time and developed workarounds and jerry-rigs* to get by them, one begins to view them as strengths for no other reason than their familiarity.

If nobody thinks like this any more though, congrats on escaping what is normally a sure route to smug weenie-ism.

*Eg. later in the same section, Brodie suggests defining constants associated with block numbers as a sort of ersatz filenames
I don't understand how SSL can be secure. Aren't the keys for encrypting and decrypting transferred in the open before encryption can take place? If so, isn't a man-in-the-middle able to snoop those keys?
The biggest problem for me is finding artists and people to follow. Why can the Genius feature look at my library and suggest music to buy but in Ping I get 14 suggestions that are all unrelated? Ok, facebook and apple are sorting things out, but why do i have to enter email addresses? Why can't it look at my apple address book and at least let me pick from that? Very messy rollout and I can't help but think apple's secrecy and control is going to burn them here.
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It's never that easy. If your 6 foot 4 inches, at 220lbs, your probably fairly thin and may want to add muscle.

In the end if you have very little muscle, regardless of weight, you should add it. It will help you lose fat (ie ripping muscles speeds up your metabolism - yes, but most importantly the burn effect lasts much, much longer than an equivalent amount of endurance work). Also you'll have more energy to do more activities allowing you to lose more fat.
Why bother? Kx give away their latest version. Don't you have any original ideas?
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Anyone has a underwater writing board in his shower for quick notes?
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It all just concentrated from local newspaper classifieds.

Would you grant that sufficient concentration would make it a different class of problem?

Clearly, CL is going above and beyond their legal requirement to vet these ads.

Okay, so what? Nobody serious seems to be claiming anyone from CL should go to jail. The only argument I've heard is that whatever CL is doing isn't working, and they need to do more to actually address the problem. People certainly have the right to make this argument, don't they?

So why do you feel it necessary to imply that you can't "trust" them, or that CL is willingly profiting from prostitution or human trafficking?

If it's true that CL is willingly profiting from sex ads, and it's true that sex ads on CL are a primary tool of sex traffickers, and it's true that CL knows this, how is it not then the case that CL is willingly profiting from sex trafficking? I'm not saying or implying that it's their goal or their desire to do so, but the bottom line is that they are, and they could be doing more so that they aren't.
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> Actually, if you're into cool, trendier, up-and-coming, non-mainstream music, Ping is pretty fantastic.

No. Really, no it's not.
How do I cancel the service? Should I fill a cancellation form asking me for a lot of things I don't know? I had a bad experience with ServerPronto trying to cancel.
Sorry for making you dissapointment :) For this particular post, I didn't want to go into the nitty gritty details about public key cryptography. I'm more interesting in the practical application of SSL since there is truly a lack of a good general source to understand what's going on for applying a SSL cert and why exactly each step is needed.

Most regular people when it comes to SSL will usually don't have a good background into encryption, but they want to have something that works and help them implementing on the sites. Especially with SSL so cheap ($12.99 on GoDaddy), there should not be any reason not to implement it. It's like buying a new car, sometimes you don't really need to know how the engine works, but just know how to drive your new car by inserting the key and hitting the gas pedal.

My model of this post is after Feynman: explain it in a way to help peek the interests of the reader. Once the "why" is explained (maybe not as clear or concise as I'd want), the reader would have a clearer picture of the whole SSL business. And if he/she wants to find out more about the underlining encryption algorithm, there's always Wikipedia available for further reading.
The company that originally made the "k" language (Kx Systems) has a Google group:

http://groups.google.com/group/personal-kdbplus

That one is mostly for "q", a proprietary follow-up language.

There's also the "k idioms", which are always educational:

http://kx.com/technical/contribs/eugene/kidioms.html
My experience with recommendation engines (mainly Pandora) is that they're not yet good enough for rabid fans, connoisseurs, and musicians. You get bands that are trying to be like some great band, but not quite doing it. What you're left with is a bunch of imitators that you don't want to listen to, which results in hearing music that makes you sick of the one band you did like in the first place.
The article is completely and utterly obsolete. 35mm digital would out-resolve medium format film circa 2002, with the Canon 1Ds[1]. A 39 megapixel medium format digital back will come within spitting distance of 4x5 film[2]. Hasselblad now have a 60 megapixel medium format camera.

Being able to use a smaller sensor format at the same or better quality is of critical importance, because it allows the photographer to use smaller, lighter, brighter lenses. A digital MF system can happily be used handheld, whereas a 4x5 camera demands a very large and heavy tripod to work at all. Large format lenses are so slow and the cameras so bulky that a mere gust of wind can ruin an image.

That's at low ISO. Start cranking up the sensitivity and digital is in a world of it's own. A Nikon D3s will produce useful images at 12800 ISO and very clean images at 6400 ISO[3].

For any serious use, film is absolutely stone dead. It still has a place for hobbyists and students, for whom the much cheaper equipment makes up for the inconvenience and poorer quality. For any serious use, digital is vastly, incomparably better than film.

[1] http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/shootout.shtml
[2] http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/Cramer.shtml
[3] http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcame...
For all we know, it could be in space, they could be heavily magnetized, 100m/s wind, .5 CoF in the pulleys, the rope could stretch, and the system could be traveling near the speed of light.
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Ask HN: Please review my startup idea: hosted iOS multiplayer platform
http://PlayRelay.io

I am a single-founder looking for feedback on my first startup idea called "PlayRelay".

PlayRelay is a companion product to Apple's Game Center adding:

- a simplified client development (no servers, no knowledge of networking);

- hosted, sandboxed game logic referees (JavaScript, V8);

- a client/server infrastructure (no P2P, less firewall problems);

- player accountability (no quitting a game b/c you are about to lose); and

- global single-elimination tournaments (win your state, country, world).

There are a number of big players in the iOS multiplayer market including OpenFeint's new PlayTime (announced Sep. 1) and Exit Game's Photon/Neutron.

I feel like this is a good niche for a single-founder to tackle and is different from the other offerings. I'm done with the design, 80% done with code, and have started a private beta program.

Any thoughts on the ideas and/or pricing? Thanks!
huh.. i didn't think of them resting on the ground and thought it was a trick question.
I'd say they expect that at least some people will. If Ping were to take off (in the modest sense of people actually activating it and occasionally looking at it), I would expect it to drive up iTunes sales. I don't like that it would drive up sales, but I expect it would happen.

Unfortunate fact is, there are a lot of people out there (I'd say most of us, but to varying degrees) whose music taste is largely influenced by what they think it says about them to others. Music as a status symbol. And status symbols work even better when it's less apparent that you're actively trying to signal.

So if my stream updated automatically that I'd just listened to the new Arcade Fire album, problem solved. But if it doesn't, and I want to impress people by showing that I listen to it, and there's no way to do that on Ping except by buying it from iTunes... I think that would have an effect on a lot of people's judgement. Most of the time not enough to send you over the edge, but on an aggregate scale, often enough to bump up sales.

Again though, this is contingent on Ping taking off as a tool people actually use for music networking. If no one's looking, no one cares what they look like.