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Most people don't act in ways that are logically congruent with all their beliefs. You're lucky if their beliefs are consistent with each other.
I think you guys are missing the forest through the trees, maybe Joy Division was a bad example but what Reznor is pointing our is how much of a performance Facebook is, every profile is what/how you want to be perceived now so much how you actually are. It's an idealization. How many of your friends Facebook profiles represent someone significantly different than the person you actually know? A lot.
As long as features can be simulated adoption will stagnate. As much as we like to think we (the developers) are in control of browser adoption, the simple reality is that we're not. The end users are. The "normals". They don't give a shit if your box-shadow uses a PNG or is implemented using CSS3. They don't know the difference between canvas and flash. Hey! it works right?

I honestly believe that the way to move the web forward is by letting browsers innovate at the expense of standards, and for developers to adopt non-aesthetic API's that will cause functional differences from the stagnating dominant incumbent if there is one at the time (at the moment IE).

In other words, when developers get pissed, they find solutions. When end users get pissed, the switch browsers, or decide your app is not worth it. Our goal is to get that proposition in front of end users as often as possible, and create enough value that they choose the former.
The digraph mark N© has been in use for many years by the groups The Tape-beatles and Negativland, for two examples. It was devised by the British artist Mark Pawson in the late 1980s. (I'm not saying anything against the new mark, just offering this up because it might be interesting to some.)
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"How about a visa for anybody who wants to come start a business here, period."

How about removing the employer sponsorship from H-1B and L-1 visas and converting them into general right-to-work visas? Then an H-1B/L-1 visa holder could start their own business without needing government approval.
Fair enough, but either option is going to be much more than you'd get in a basic VPS.
It would be nice if all stories involving a location include a link to satellite or aerial photos of the location on Google Maps or similar. I want to zoom in on those ruins.
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And those trees can grow back. The gold underground won't.

(Yes it takes much longer for a new tree to grow to replace a chopped down one, but still. It's much more renewable than gold.)
That knowing things with the mind is as limiting as it is empowering. In other words, your mind can be blown and you'd still be alright.
If you have a hosted order form with Chargify, there's no difference between OpenGateway and Chargify when it comes to PCI compliance. VISA and MasterCard say you should be PCI compliant either way.

Also, OpenGateway doesn't store credit card information which is always good.
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Sounds like one of those "college feminist club" kinds of statistics that get tossed around. Sounds way too high.
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In that case, couldn't we just do away with domians and stick to IP addresses then? At least sans IP scarcity issues. :P
Do any of these actually try and use your current location on the map, or do they just give you a static version of the map and assume you can find your own way?
>Yes, but IE9 will also be the new IE8 eventually.

I think the problem is that microsoft is tying the browser version to the OS version. Will you be able to install IE9 on XP?
What's up with these typophiles? They walk around thinking they're the most important member of the club.

The truth is, design is complicated because it is not (yet) a science. Typography is important, but it is not king. What we really need to do is get inside the user's head and model their thought process. This is probably impossible, so we should do the next best thing: learn empathy. Be the user. Not some one-trick pony.
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Yes, these sites seem to offer a vastly better deal to customers than traditional contracts. But there's a catch: As a consequence, the deal they offer to designers is necessarily so much worse that the only ones participating are those who can't find work elsewhere, ie amateurs.
I think the Gap contest perfectly demonstrates that this isn't the type of task where a "Mechanical Turk" approach works. I've looked at the top 200 rated entries, and there's hardly a passable one among them, let alone anything even remotely inspired.
I disagree. They could add a lot of context by simply explaining the key and its importance, and the concepts of confusion and diffusion.
I love the Factory numbers!

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do you guys take logs of both sides, so you don't have to keep updating the scores of all the previously posted items? I mean, if all that matters is how big the scores are relative to one another, then A > B <=> log A > log B (since A and B are positive). You'll just have to add a G*log(T+2) to the log(P) for new items, which can go on for a very long time. ... T is the time since some arbitrary point.

I think I may have just reinvented the way reddit does it :P
Can't you say the same thing about Twitter? Or your Linkedln? I mean for heaven's sake it's the reality of the internet and life and general. This is not a substitute, it's an addendum. Facebook connects us. Yes it's hyperreal. Yes it's diluted.

But it's never going to be the perfect image of ourselves, just as how we project ourselves to two people becomes different than when we project ourselves to one. Just as how we project ourselves to three people becomes different from how we project ourselves to two. And scale up to your 400+ friends on the 'book.
Is there anything in the W3C spec to have the option to treat a canvas image differently than a regular image?

When I am playing a canvas game I do not want to drag, zoom, or otherwise disturb the area that makes up the display.

Having a separate, more helpful, context menu and keeping focus are both the best things and the worst things about flash.
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No, it was a marketing blunder followed up with some great marketing response. Gatorade recently did the same thing and are getting beat up heavily about it because they invested too heavily before finding out what their customers really were interested in.
I saw an interview with Coke's CEO at the time about new Coke. His comment was that nobody at the company was smart enough to "plan" the new Coke fiasco.
Gap are a strange company. I personally love their cut of jeans so always buy mine from them. I'm in the UK and until this year, they did not have an online store for the UK. I can't believe how long it has taken them to do this
Well, you can fix (1) by simply incrementing T not by actual time but just be the total # of votes/submissions since the beginning.
This article's weird off-center placement on the right side with empty space on the left made me feel uneasy. That's 64% a layout issue.
Erazing faith in the verb "to be" by reading up on Alfred Korzybski and the philosophy of when abstractions fail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski
A computer and an innovative mind were the only tools necessary to sustain myself economically and make the world a better place. I'm still working on the mind, but the MBP was a good investment towards that end :)
340 thousand people is not that surprising of a following for a band that was notable in the 70's, one that pioneered a popular genre -- it's been nearly 30 years, and you can enjoy a band's music without subscribing to the band's "movement".

I think it's ridiculous to try to make such general and vague pronouncements as "Most Joy Division fans on Facebook must be faking it" with nothing to support or ground your statistic in.
This commercial is a bait and switch, and as is common with ads by Crispin Porter & Bogusky, they rely on subtle psychological ploys to effectively influence your thinking.

The ad grabs your attention by highlighting the various ways in which society has become addicted to constantly checking information that resides in mobile devices. Several of the scenes deliberately emphasize activities in which another party is left deprived by someone using a phone. The most striking image to me was a father playing see-saw with his daughter, but we also have a game of catch, a neglected wife showing off lingerie, a neglected girlfriend during dinner. The scenes, and their inherent problems, are readily accessible and, importantly, relatable to our every day experiences. Lots of girlfriends in the house are nodding.

So now it has seduced you into agreeing with its premise, and you kind of wonder how the commercial proposes to fix it. Cell phones are bad. And then, at the very end, they propose a solution! Yes! We have been waiting for it. The tagline: "It's time for our phones to save us from our phones. New Windows Phone 7. Designed to get you in, and out, and back to life." YES! Wait, or is it a solution?

If we go back to the original montage building up to the release, the solution, note that what is being highlighted is the TACT of using a phone in particular situations, NOT, as the end implies, some kind of difficult to navigate software that makes information too lengthy a process to access. Have you ever checked email during dinner with a girlfriend on an iPhone or Android? How long does it take to glance at the new messages? 5 seconds? 7 tops? Guess what, she still disapproves. Same with the bedroom situation. If you think about it, the commercial, the first time you see it, seduces you into agreeing with the premise not that the phone takes too long to use, but that it doesn't belong in a bedroom! That it shouldn't be whipped out during a game of catch!

In short, the commercial highlights a common problem that it fails to solve. It presents the solution in a grammar that almost solves the problem, but then if you think about it more deeply, utterly fails to solve that problem. Put another way, if Windows Phone 7 does solve the time access problem, the commercial utterly fails to provide any evidence that it succeeds in doing so, because it highlights something else.

By not really featuring the product in any substantive way, the ad agency is showing that it can't figure out how to differentiate the product.
I'm a relatively happy eMusic subscriber -- with a few minor complaints, but nothing serious. I almost see this as a sign of their current business model being unsustainable. eMusic started it's life as a cheap retailer —- subscription or no -- but has had to repeatedly rejig their pricing in order to retain label catalogues. I don't think this should be interpreted purely as an attempt to get major labels involved, this has had an effect on smaller labels as well. An anecdotal example; Relapse had pulled it's catalogue purely because it wasn't making enough money from it. Planet-mu had done the same. Subsequent to the last pricing changes, lots of hold out labels have put their catalogues on eMusic -- for me, notably Warp and Kompakt.

So my general feeling is that if these moves help eMusic sustain itself, then I can get behind it. However, these pricing schemes no longer look anything like a subscription; eMusic will not be the simple service that it was previously.

I get a sense that a subscription now only locks you into paying a set amount each month to a retailer and removes your ability to shop around with that money.

Still, the music is generally cheaper and for someone like me -- given I purchase a lot -- it's still a good deal.

I watch with interest.
Yes, it works now.
Have you heard of epigenetics? This blew my mind recently.

"study of inherited changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence"
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Thanks all. I'll have a bash with a couple small ideas and then go from there!
Nit: These aren't "optimizations", they're syntactic sugar.
It doesn't matter how the other logos look.

The Gap's brand recognition is so high that it would be absolutely idiotic to swap the logo with a new look.
> Apache Harmony is not a VM, its an implementation of the standard library.

Harmony is a full implementation, which means that there's a VM too. Google didn't use it in Android, though.
I've no idea if this is true or not (probably not due to where i heard it) but a poll was taken in the US about foreign aid.

68% said that too much was spent on foreign aid, 59% said they thought it should be cut.

Thus 9% think foreign aid is too high but shouldn't be cut. It isnt so much this specific example, but i bet pollsters get this kind of thing all the time, which i find fascinating.

Bonus points if you know where its from.
Wow, you too, I came across this while meditating at 22. But I was thinking about how there can't be a new color of light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum_algorithm

Other implications:

1. Knowledge is finite(a big number but finite, only 10^100 atoms in the universe so even if your screen was big as the universe there is only so much it could show)

2. Solving a problem can be interpreted as a search through linear space of all possible permutation. So, lets say that the drug to cure cancer could be in the form of an equation, it would show up on the screen eventually.

3. Oh, if there is a God, his pic will eventually come up on your computer.
that most people in the world do not use bidets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet
in fact, as someone else said if you then make T = the number of submissions / votes since the beginning, people would be able to post at midnight and it would still have a "fair" chance of being ranked along with the other articles posted at busier times.
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Wow, that's exhaustive! Can't wait to try out the terminal apps there. I really want to live in a TTY for some time now.
Interestingly, we will be doing that soon as well. Care to share your experiences?
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So they are going after the middle aged segment. I don't see how this ad would appeal to kids.
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> Apache Harmony is not a VM, its an implementation of the standard library.

It's both, and Harmony is an implementation of Java SE.

Also note the following quote from JSR 270:

"""Nothing in the licensing terms will prevent open source projects from creating and distributing their own compatible open source implementations of Java SE 6, using standard open source licenses."""

That's a broken promise, although I don't think it is legally binding because the term "open source license" they could argue it is something that comes with code (since the trademark for "open source" could not be obtained by OSI).

But for me as a Java user, a broken promise is a broken promise.

I never viewed Java as being a dangerous platform, not even when OpenJDK didn't exist. That changed.
Along those lines:

* I bumped into a girl that I went to South Eugene High School with at the train station here in Padova, Italy. We were even on the same train. I was quite literally speechless for a moment or two.

* I worked with a person in San Francisco whose dad had known my dad and uncle in the same small town in Montana.
This is mine too. How is it possible that

* the ratio between the a circle's circumference and diameter
* the number such that the derivative of e^x = e^x
* the square root of negative 1

Have anything to relate them to one another?? That last one isn't even a number!

Mind. Blown. The universe is one crazy place.
An exaggerated headline is 95% of getting traffic.
The followup (Part 2) is here:
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Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?
I love travelling and use Wotif.com a lot to find great hotel deals. The things is, Wotif has horrible user interface. For example, if you go to its homepage, you need to do multiple scrolling to select your destination on a country list with the size of 1 inch. Another example is airline websites, but thankfully this has been solved with Hipmunk (yay!).

So I'm asking you guys here if you share any frustrations with me on the websites that have really bad UI but we need to use it anyway. I hope this post will inspire these companies to either fix their UI, or more likely, somebody starts something better to replace them.

Thank you.
When I was tutoring, I was glad to have students who cared enough about the work to attack it in advance.
Sorry...posted this in the wrong story.
For me it was the delayed choice quantum eraser. Simply mind blowing!
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People who say X is 95% of Y are 95% wrong.
Ask HN: Idea for a better theme? 
hey all, i need your help in deciding a theme for a conference that i am putting up in college.

its a TEDx[my university], and my team and i are having a hard time coming up with something interesting. i know that it is not really related to hacking, but i'll delete this post soon enough.

thanks
The infinite graphical design monkey theorem?
The closest thing I'm aware is us Undo Send in Google Labs.
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I don't think there's anything in Dalvik's bytecode that's specific to servers, and so they could have 2 versions of the VM: one for mobile phones, and one for the desktop/server.

If they'll release specs for Dalvik, make it a standard somehow, I'm pretty sure Apache will help.
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This shocked a lot of flash boys and neck beards back in 2006.

But nowadays...

Luckily, I had a chance to prove it many times.
Why does the WSJ even have a paywall if it's so trivial to defeat (change your referrer to google)?
How much hassle would it have been for Google to have changed the name before they announced it?

You're right there's no central repository of programming language names... But there is such thing as a search engine...
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So, why Plan 9?
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However dismissing him as just some guy who sprays crap on other people's property probably just indicates you aren't aware of the social / political messaging he engages in.

It's easy to say that the law should not be enforced against Banksy because he is engaged in worthy social/political messaging, but consider: what if the government can't be trusted to decide what is politically legitimate and artistically worthy? I know, I know, crazy talk, but it's an interesting thought experiment, right?

You and I might think Banksy is great and different, but it's a legitimate point that "some guy who sprays crap on other people's property" doesn't recognize that he is, in fact, different from Banksy. He thinks he's Banksy, just like every gay-bashing, church-bombing white power thug thinks he's Batman, cleaning up scum off the streets. And who are we to say they're wrong? Even worse, who are the cops that we trust them to make the distinction? The difference between Batman and a white power vigilante is politics; the difference between Banksy and a paint-huffing teenage dipshit is political and artistic understanding, as well as aesthetics. Tolerating Banksy means selective law enforcement based on someone's political and artistic sensibility. In the United States we have a long history of the cops being on the wrong side of these kinds of distinctions, and I hope every other country recognizes the same thing in their history.

Personally, I hope Banksy stays ahead of the cops, but I also hope they're trying in earnest to bust him when he does something illegal.
You should also work while standing up.

There's a reason why academics prefer whiteboards and chalkboards to pen and paper. It's because they feel genuinely more productive and creative while working on them. I personally think that it comes down to improved blood flow, and it's one of the key tricks that my friends and I used to earn physics degrees from Caltech. We'd go camp out in empty lecture halls late at night, filling chalkboard after chalkboard with scrawl, and only sit down to copy finished problems in their final form.
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I believe the idea is that the problem of moving is atomic. To move, you must know how to move (assuming the world is not discrete).

It is the same as "you cannot arrive", except in reverse. Or that "you cannot rotate one of two parallel lines", because the jump from parallel to intersecting is elusive.
I'm far from impressed with this. How is ?? any different from a guard ( || )? I use that all the freaking time in every language. I've never written a line of C# and even I know about the parallel module, how didn't that make the cut?
You’re right; I misread that Wikipedia page.
Yep. In my experience the same is also true of writing good political science papers, solving information design problems, or really digging in to a photography project.
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my point was that it doesn't inspire fandom. i was comparing influence.
I think in this case they're worried less about terrorists (who can be excluded on other grounds) and more about mass immigration in general. Simply requiring that you say you have a business plan is equivalent to having no requirements, since anyone can say that.

I'm pretty pro-immigration in general, but wouldn't it be more direct to just greatly increase the immigration quotas, rather than making people go through the charade of pretending to have a business plan? Either that, or if you want to insist that it be a real business plan and not a charade, you need someone to vet them.
up until the end, I also thought "so good you won't be able to leave it" was the intended message.

It also recalled an old halo commercial on the lines of "I used to have a boyfriend, then halo came" (not sure if it only aired in my country or worldwide).

Frankly while I think the ad is fun, it does not seem to be convincing. But that's probably not the point, I guess the only goal was to have this become some sort of viral video. People only need to be exposed, not convinced.
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