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The official flower of the United State of America, The roses is an easily recognizable flower common to many gardens. It also grows wild around the world.There are over 100 different species of roses, grow in a rainbow of colors, from the well-known red rose to yellow roses and even white roses. Roses are native to North American, Europe and northwest Africa, but the majority of species of rose plants come from Asia.The lotus and water lily are often used interchangeably in folklore and mythology. Generally lotus refers to the water lily of India or the plant depicted in sacred art and stories, while the water lily is more often used by naturalists. one for the lotus, one for the water lily.The lotus of India belongs to the Nelumbo genus (Nelumbo is the Sinhalese name for the plant). It has large flowers and leaves that sometimes grow up above the water. "The lotuses of heaven can change according to people's wishes, flowering when needed. In this way they bring joy to the hearts of all. Jasmine Flower ImageJasmine is a very popular flowers around the world, especially in tropics because of its unique fragrance. The Jasmine is native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the old world. Jasmine flowers are white in most species. Jasmine is believed to have originated in the Himalayas in western China.
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Games and Game Mechanics - Playful 2010 post-conference summary
What's wrong with social Darwinism?

You can't argue against something just by calling it an unfashionable name.

I've heard it said that nobody can agree on what "social Darwinism" means but that everybody is against it. I'm trying to remove the stigma to promote a more sober discussion of ideas that often suffer from this label.
This can be easily averted. Destroy the Earth.
Good interview, but it's a bit weird that while the majority of it focuses on the failures, there were only a few sentences that highlighted what changed to bring success. More or less, they were:

"And I would say the most value [from YCombinator] comes at the end of the program when you get to get in front of a whole bunch of, a room full of investors ... I think what we needed the most at that moment in time was to get the same room together and really just work 110%"

But if I recall correctly, didn't PG recently mention that Airbnb was one of only two YC companies that didn't present at demo day? I guess that's irrelevant, because the reason is that they already had sufficient investment. Still, he only mentions two points: (1) they got an investment, and (2) they worked harder.

I'd love to hear more things specific to the task of achieving critical mass. How much did the free press from being a YC company with a big seed round help out? Did they abandon tying their site to particular events? What were their SEO strategies? etc
Just like a Macbook Air is smaller, but not cheaper than a Macbook Pro? Come on.

(Before the obvious response: yes, the Playbook is thinner and lighter than the iPad, too.)
The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the second sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence which states that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream
Not that those are bad blogs, but they are very different from TC, IMO. Arrington infused TC with a 'devil-may-care' personality that made for a dramatic read. I don't think AOL (their PR dept) will be able to stomach such behavior.

I think this will tame TechCrunch.
Techcrunch is dead. Long live Techcrunch.
I was just telling a co-worker this morning that I want a reflective screen (ala Kindle) as a second monitor at work. I'd love to put documentation up on it. Although this isn't quite it, it's a step in the right direction.
I admit that I did not investigate it thoroughly enough. As you concluded, they may not have the money or the man power to acquire Xmarks. Ignoring these vital issues, it appears that they have the necessary passion and expertise in bookmark management.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government
has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't
enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a
crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws."
-- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
I recently had the great opportunity of speaking with one of the founders of AirBnB and asked him a very similar set of questions. I do not want to quote him, and it was definitely an informal conversation, but I will paraphrase some of the very important points that he made about startups in general and the approach they took to gaining users. I have found this information really useful in my own startup and I would love to share with all of you.

One thing they focused on was their core users. Listening to them, almost to the point of not being scalable. Going to the houses of the people that were registered and asking them questions like "What is the hardest part or most undesirable part of using our product?". That kind of engagement has 2 real benefits: 1. You get real concrete answers about what to fix and 2. It turns your users into excited, advocates for your product. A key point here is scalability. Sometimes it's a good thing to ignore scalable solutions in a startup in order to get things going ( a common mistake I have made on a number of occasions).

Another point that he made about their work was providing high quality pictures and content on their website. They spent time going with (rented) wide lens cameras to users house's to take high quality pictures to put up. This aesthetic change can produce a much stronger sense of trust in a service and is something that all founders should think about.

Hope that can be helpful to someone :)
Hulu coming to the ROKU
> From the recent news involving rape and now this, it appears that Assange has some personal issues he is working through.

It rather sounds like his only personal issue is that people are making up news about him.
You've just excluded about 6 billion people from your definition of "poor".

Given the fact that the US needs a huge part of the resources of the rest of the world (labor, oil, etc.) in order to be "rich" by whatever definition, it's kind of cheating to exclude the rest of the world's population from your argument on the distribution of wealth.

Marx may have only been wrong about time and scale...
Did you read what Zed wrote? That's not discussion, that's threatening people. It won't work.

Also, if you read the Debian guy's opinion, it is clear that, behind the scenes, and away from all the kerfluffle, people are doing work to improve the situation.

Also, you people seem awfully sure of yourself. If you peruse the bug reports, you might find some interesting nuggets:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588125

> - Do we want to disable gem update --system? I think that we should allow a way for the user to do it anyway.

But don't let me disabuse you of your preconceived notions.
p.p.s. I was exaggerating when I said "zero respect for your comment." I was just trying to make a point about the difference between criticizing someone's point and criticizing them personally. But now that I think about it, I was a little rude. I apologize.
I'm using Arch now for two reasons. It is surprisingly easy to install and maintain. The documentation and wiki are the real reason behind this. I guess that's the surprise: docs beat guis, at least in linux distros.

Also I can keep a bleeding edge system up to date with out much trouble. I never could figure out how to do this with unbuntu.

I guess there is also a third reason. Arch seems to keep up with haskell developments very well.
How to smear a hero
because of larger number of counterparties whose contracts to enforce?
Do any of the problems or concerns that painters have with black art apply to using white on a monitor?
It's both less efficient and more expensive than burning natural gas in a turbine.

Its data sheet claims 52% efficiency [1], while current generation CCGTs are 60% efficient (e.g. [2]).

Its commercial price is $7,000-$8,000/kW(e) [3]. This is ten times the cost of CCGT power plants, at ~$700-800/kWe (e.g. [4,5]). (This does NOT mean the amortized cents/kWh cost is 10x higher -- most of the final cost is the gas fuel). Ref [5] is particularly relevant, it's financial estimates from California's state energy commission.

edited to add: According to the link [6] in the OP article, the commercial price of the Bloom Box already includes state rebates, and the real cost is twice as high ($14,000-$16,000/kWe). It also reports comparable costs for competing fuel cells ($11,200/kWe for ClearEdge, and $30,000/kWe for Panasonic's really tiny fuel cell).

"A 100-kilowatt Bloom server array costs around $700,000 to $800,000, or $7,500 a kilowatt, after incentives that cover around 50 percent of the costs."

[1] http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/data-sheet/

[2] A modern CCGT turbine: http://www.energy.siemens.com/hq/en/power-generation/gas-tur...

(5,687 BTU/kWh <--> 60.0% efficiency)

[3] http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16189290

[4] (same turbine as [2]) http://www.power-technology.com/projects/irsching/

[5] CCGT costs in table 14: http://www.energy.ca.gov/2007publications/CEC-200-2007-011/C...

[6] http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/bloom-vs.-solar-...
Reaching your target market through pricing, constraints, and self-selection
The right to the pursuit of happiness is not the same as the right to happiness.
Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see why the link is to this page. The name "Oracle" isn't even mentioned there.
I am actually surprised how well this works with in-phone, with fully-automated processing. I do a fair amount of HDR work with a Canon 7D, and the process is anything but simple. The results can be outstanding, but there is a lot of work in getting to the end product. The iPhone is using fairly conservative settings that avoid the surreal effects that HDR can produce if you are not careful.

Of course, it probably helps that the phone is able to make intelligent exposure decisions by evaluative metering. It can automatically pick the 3 best exposures. Most cameras do not have such automated capabilities. At best, you can take bracketed shots, but each shot is hard-coded to your chosen EV offset. I would imagine in-camera HDR will be the next must-have feature in point-and-shoots, which, given time, will no doubt find its way into professional models.

As far as the pro models go, I would love to have a more automated method of taking a series of raw shots at HDR-optimal EV offsets.
Ask HN: Suggestions for a Xmarks replacement?
So with Xmarks shutting down soon, I need a good solution to sync my bookmarks to replace Xmarks across computers/browsers. Chrome Bookmark sync doesn't work at all for me, and It's a pain to manually sync across browsers and devices.

Anybody have recommendation for a service (I'm ok with a paid service at a reasonable price) that has good plugins for chrome / firefox and allows me to tag my bookmarks and search them.

Historius? Delicious? etc.

Thanks
Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men
are earn-outs usually that high (compared to the up-front purchase price)?
Of course. Broad, society-wide correlations don't say much about specific cases.

You won't find many of these PhDs in the bottom 10%, though (except in cases of mental illness). Smart people are smart enough to figure out how to avoid desperate poverty, and some of them are also smart enough to figure out that making $400K a year for Bain won't make them happy.
What Makes the BBC's Zeitgeist Tick
Park Spark - Man makes electric-generator for park via dog droppings
What are you using now? Bitsream Cyberbit? VLGothic? WenQuanYi Micro Hei?
Maybe you will find this interesting: graphic designers have lots of rules about the proper use of typography when laying out a document, like correct kerning, use of old-style numerals, ligatures, etc. The reason for following those rules has to do with the same principles of harmony and naturalness in this blog post, but when researchers tested the impact of "good" typography vs. "bad" typography, they found no differences in performance measures like reading comprehension or reading speed. They did find differences on other measures - in the good typography condition, participants underestimated the amount of time they had spent reading (a measure of engagement with the task) compared to participants in the "bad typography" condition.

But the most interesting finding was when they tested creative cognition - on that test, the "good typography" participants scored much better than the "bad typography" participants. This might explain why we designers insist on good typography (and other design principles). Creativity is a big part of our job, and we want to avoid things that might impair the performance of our creative cognition. But for people in other, "left-brained" professions, enhancing creativity is less important and engaging people is less important, so it makes sense that they would see design rules as irrelevant extra work of little value.

Designers rush to judgment when they see "bad" design because it almost literally hurts their brain. But, maybe the person who designed it or the audience for it doesn't have that kind of brain - and that's OK.
I think you need to separate your factual statements from your value judgments.

On a factual level, you're right (and don't deserve all those downvotes). Every study I've seen suggests a strong correlation between genetics and intelligence, between intelligence and income, and between income and wealth. When you multiply them out, the correlation becomes somewhat less, but it still seems like a fair statement to say that genetics is correlated with wealth.

That doesn't imply that this correlation indicates a functioning meritocracy, because to the extent that intelligence is genetic, intelligence is not merit. Merit usually implies that something admirable that someone chose to do, and if someone was born intelligent, how is that merit? It's like making a value judgment on any other inborn trait - say, that blondes are better than brunettes, or fair-skinned people are better than dark-skinned ones.

The part of intelligence that people usually associate with "merit" is the part that's not inborn, the part that people have to work for. Intelligence can lead to a functioning meritocracy despite its genetic component, not because of it.
GOG.com's Guillaume Rambourg explains what happened last week
Peer-to-peer tech now powers Wikipedia's videos
Oh, Tucker Max. Of all the bullet points the author listed, I failed to see "produce quality content" as one of them, which is pretty much why Tucker Max began a slow slide into irrelevancy years ago.

At this point he's a relic of an earlier time where fictional stories posed as truth was taken at (mostly) face value. In today's era of camera phones and youtube, if there's no proof then it didn't happen. Most of his stories have been debunked by various sources, and all you need to do is Google "Tucker Max sucks."

And of course, the $2.5 million question is if Tucker Max was such an effective marketer, why did the movie version of his book perform so poorly? (the "$2.5 million" figure obviously referring to the cinema and DVD sales combined[1]).

[1] http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2009/IHTSB.php
http://github.com/schwern/Perl-Signatures-Common

FIGHT!
And yet the wikileaks twitter feed still seems to say everything is A-OK
"Successfully completed our next three films. Thank you team and supporters." http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/25591655477
What's great about selling out is that he doesn't have to care that you think he's selling out. He has a hundred million dollars now...
Ask HN: Best field for a computer engineering PhD?
I am about to begin my active search for a PhD in computer engineering. However before going further, I want to know what is be the best field to attain expertise in (according to HN); i.e. what type of knowledge is the most valuable?

The field of machine learning and data mining is the one that seems to offer the most opportunities today, with the continuing growth of the internet and the ever increasing amount of data available. I would like to study evolutionary and genetic algorithms - is there interest for these techniques as well?
> Assange seems to be paranoid and has a messiah complex.

Check out the June 2006 entry:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060712184552/http://iq.org/inde...
Countably infinite - like the integers. I.e., if you start counting the integers (1, 2, 3, etc), you will eventually reach any given integer.

Count the first element from set 1, first element from set 2, second element set 1, second element set 2, first element set 3, third element set 1, etc. Eventually you will count every element from every set.

You can't do that for the real numbers.
Certainly there's an uncountably infinite number of possible events. The question is whether that's an uncountable infinity with larger cardinality than the uncountable infinity of instants in which they could be happening.

As far as I'm concerned having read the thread up to this point the question is still open... though my personal prejudice is still that it's not true that every event must happen.
I don't think it is quite that simple.

I wished it was because we dearly need wikileaks but we need it to be run by someone that is both stable and squeaky clean, Assange appears to be neither.

He definitely is driven though, you have to hand him that.
That's an interesting question. My hunch is to say no, as color on a monitor is so pure and perfect. It's essentially digital while a painting is analog, really analog. How the pigments that form the various colors interact with each other varies so much. Even just take red for example, there's red paint made with cadmium, some with iron oxide, others with plants, pyrrole, etc. All these different types of red act so differently. Red on a monitor is just defined by 8 bits, typically.

But with all that said, this was another lifetime ago for me. I've been a programmer for over a decade now and haven't seriously painted in about that much time, so I'm not the expert I wish I was anymore. I should get back into it.
I'm confused about Microsoft's strategy and directions. They appear to be as well.
Homebrew on OS X uses the same approach to install packages.
It works as long as the installed software doesn't have to modify system files (/etc).
Palantir software is almost completely Java.
That's called a good problem to have :)
16 bit ALU in MineCraft
What is the problem with Chrome bookmark sync?

For Firefox alone you can use Firefox Sync (previously Weave), it has worked great for me so far. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10868/]

I don't know of any other usable cross-browser sync tools than xmarks.
What happens when it's all glass?
Ask HN: Should we still optimize for 1024x768?
I've been looking at my analytics "screen resolutions" page recently and only 5% of my site visitors are at 1024x768. By far the most common screen resolutions are 1280x800 (25%), 1440x900 (15%), and 1680x1050 (10%).

With that in mind, should devs continue to optimize their sites for 1024x768?
It seems to me that you're trying to interpret that into a Harrison Bergeron society [1].

The way I read this passage of the Declaration is twofold:

A. In the eyes of the law (that is, the only way that the government can view us), all men enjoy the same rights, privileges, and protections.

B. We are clearly diverse; it is obvious that no two of us are exactly alike, or in any way interchangeable. However, it's not possible to assign a value to those differences. The way each of us fit into the grand scheme of society is far too complex to tease apart.

[1] About: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Harrison_Berg... ; Text: http://www.nationalreview.com/nroriginals/?q=MDllNmVmNGU1NDV...
Why do you assume counterparties grow exponentially with wealth?

This would also only apply to that portion of the tax burden associated with enforcing contracts (a very small fraction, basically just the police and judicial system).
I would argue that economic instability was a strong contributor to the racial and religious violence you describe. It's easier to tune out intolerance when you're secure in your station.
What happens if you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider?
The best thing to do with text on a monitor is to keep the text black but make the background less bright. I actually prefer bright yellow on a CRT since that seriously reduces the glare while still being as easily readable as black on white paper. On an LCD where glare isn't a problem, almost anything warm pastel is good; you lose contrast more with cooler colors.
This gossip by the media is a waste of everybody's time. I feel like the stress and pressure are solely created by them. And in relation to the article, I side with Assange, who is under a huge amount of stress: external and internal.

If others want authority or control they must start their own organisation up. Nothing is stopping them and it would be of great benefit to everybody. However if they want to work with Assange they know what they're getting into: they must trust him and they must follow him. It is only fair to do this: if he started it you cannot expect it to turn into a democracy unless that is how he wants it. Assange is right to not trust any of these people either: look what they've done? The "wikileaks" leaks are coming from somewhere aren't they. Case in point: this one.

"I believe that Julian has in fact pushed the capable people away," Snorrason said in an interview with Wired.com. "His behavior is not of the sort that will keep
independent-minded people interested."

The project could be handled by other people if necessary. There is a huge amount of public support for Wikileaks or similar sites. I think they could get other capable people to work for them if it was needed.

I must say, I find the need to spend ages double-checking the leaks to be a little insecure and while I understand that it is to manage their public image, I think it is wrong that they are expected to do so by anybody. You already have the morale high-ground when you point out atrocities committed in a war. Any comparison between deaths that could result from a leak and those documented in the leak I treat with a lot of suspicion because there have been no deaths from leaks so far and there have been a huge number of deaths from the wars. In all honesty, the comparison is unfair and frankly a baseless smear.

Also, why does everybody act all surprised with Wikileaks not liking their own information to be leaked? I think this is two-valued logic and we should avoid seeing everything so black-and-white if we want to have ethics that are actually applicable to real life.

edit; For the record, I do find some fault with wikileaks. It really disappoints me that they spend all of their time with the big leaks nowadays and shirk the smaller national leaks.