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The G2 is pretty stock.
I posted the beginner's version of this over on the Hackety Hack blog the other day. In my mind, this is one of the greatest advantages that Open Source has to offer: the ability to learn how things work, by looking at them, taking them apart, and utilizing it in your project.

This is also why I'm a BSD (well, WTFPL...) kind of guy, over GPL. Feel free to take my code, and use it however you'd like. The thought of someone making bad software because they couldn't follow my lead due to a licensing issue makes me sad.
Isn't the entire point of Groupon that one merchant per location gets their day in the sun --- and all the exposure that it brings?

I assume Groupon still takes 50% of the revenue like they do with their deal of the day. Since you're not enjoying traffic by being the deal of the day, I'm not sure why any sane businessperson would accept this type of split on what is a normal e-coupon.
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In this case (when they're arguing for more government), however, you could oppose it by arguing anti-government. That sort of puts us back where we started.

Oddly enough, though, nobody seems to argue for just "More government" in general either. People instead argue for specific programs they want.
No.

I think it's their way of reminding the population that Adobe creates tools that other people can use to create what they want. People seem to think that Adobe is against standards, when the truth is they've been working a long time to support standards in their products. That doesn't mean they only support standards. Of course, I don't know anyone who does.
Just a warning: there's a place between 3 months and a year where your evening productivity may drop, depending on how well your baby sleeps. I was doing ok for a while, then went back to work full time, and got pretty much nothing done on my side projects until they were a year old. Now at 18 mos, they sleep from 7:30 - 7:30, and it's much easier.
is it hampering your ability to actually scroll/navigate the page?

I can't scroll the page smoothly until everything is loaded. I dont care if there is async loading of external resources going on, but i do when it prevents me from using their site.

maybe this is just something weird w my browsers?
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Prior to the purchase of Macromedia, Adobe was actually a large proponent of SVG. See http://www.adobe.com/svg. Adobe tried to compete directly with Flash with products such as LiveMotion and the SVG exporter for Illustrator. After the Macromedia purchase, Adobe's SVG investments clearly dwindled. However, in light of new competition, SVG may once again prove its worth.
Yeah, it's possible, but since they've taken the extreme moral high ground here (and in the rest of their branding), they'll have to be careful about which offers they... offer.
Really? Same Major version numbers. Same product family name (SQL/Hyper-V 2008). If your databases and virtual machines don't use any new features you might expect that they could be moved between servers. Or at least have the option to save a backup in a "compatible" format.

I think it's mostly my thing getting stuck on the naming of it, for me just slapping an "R2" on the 2008 line of server products (Windows, Hyper-V, SQL) instead of being consistent with their other year-based product names makes it seem like they are minor updates instead of different products.
Yeah, it took a government to transform "money == gold / gold in a bank" to "money == debt".
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What if OS/2 v1 had been a 386 product?
> Women tend to approach men less than the reverse

Yeah, that's true. I've talked to girls on the site that didn't even know it had a search. How do they think they get all those messages? It's bizarre.
Offer HN: Grab lunch with the photos team at Facebook
I've been meaning to do this for a while, and offer HN seems like the right venue. I'd love to connect the Facebook photos team with the HN community in an authentic way. It seems like a laid-back lunch is a good way to start.

Interested? Email me: samodio@facebook.com and mention whether Nov 15th works for you. We probably have capacity for 6-10 people.

Photos team members that will likely attend:
- Justin Mitchell (hn: justinmitchell; tech lead)
- Tom Watson (designer)
- Paul Carduner (hn: pcardune; engineer)
- Nathaniel Roman (hn: nroman; engineer)
- Makinde Adeagbo (hn makinde; engineer)
- Stefan Parker (user interface engineer)

What this is not:
- This is not a "ploy" by the recruiting or PR departments (neither of those teams are involved)
- This is not an interview or a chance to get hired (though we'll tell you what it's like to work here)
- This is not a way to "advertise" our brand (we leave that to marketing).
Because you only have 2 eggs I don't think you can use a binary search algorithm (assuming I understood the question correctly). I think you'd have to start at floor 2, if that passed then jump to floor 4, etc. until you have an egg break (lets call this floor n). Then, you go to the floor below the one that broke the egg to see if an egg survives that drop. You'll then know, using only 2 eggs the highest floor you could drop from without breaking an egg (either n, n-1, or n-2).
Great cause. Looking forward to learning how they attack the problem.

From a personal stand point, I can't tell you now much relief/satisfaction I get since eliminating debt (outside of a mortgage) or how much stress I get when the occasional short term debt comes about (which motivates me to eliminate it).

They mention debt as a 'hair on fire' problem. What are some others?
I feel your pain, and I sympathise. Having said that, I get a different lesson from this.

Your relationship with your developer feels a lot like writing code without ever actually testing anything as you go. It's like taking the spec, writing all the code, then hoping that you get something that works at the end.

The lesson to take is that you need to check on progress far, far more often. Somehow a "contract" needs to have measurable stages that you can sign off on regularly, paying only when the work is done.

You probably felt that 7 to 10 days of work was small enough, but with nothing to show after a week, you needed to chase it.

It's a tough lesson, and it's cost you $550, but you're right, it's going to be better to write it off and take the lumps. I would suggest that the other "lesson" isn't so clear. If you need a lawyer to write then contract then you've already lost. You need a better relationship with your contractor, not a more detailed "spec". When you write code you need to write, test, sign off, and then write more. So it is when someone else is writing the code for you, at least until you've got a working relationship built on mutual understanding and trust.

ADDED IN EDIT: Some time ago I was looking to do a deal that was a 7 figure sum (or so). All the people I dealt with fell into one of two camps: lots of formal paperwork, or a handshake. Looking back on that deeply stressful time, all the ones who wanted things spelled out in detail ended up to be a complete waste of oxygen. All the people worth dealing with did it all on a handshake.
Double precision is half the speed of single precision on the GPUs used here (GF100).
But the government that delivers this poor ROI has produced John Carmack. Who is to say that some of the "inefficiencies" in the system did not lead to John becoming the person he is today?

The results depends on what is being measured. If you're measuring dollars in vs. dollars out, then that is one thing. But if your measuring the "number of John Carmack's produced" then the government is 100% efficient.

It's not unlike someone climbing Mount Everest and then looking back and saying "Mount Everest is easy to climb". From the perspective of the person who has successfully made the climb, it is easy. But you can't apply that perspective to the vast majority who have not made the climb.
This is addressed at the bottom of the linked page:

What does it cost?
Groupon Store: There's no upfront cost. For promoted deals you get 70% of each Groupon sold. For non-promoted deals you get 90% of each Groupon.

Deal of the Day: No upfront fee, you keep 50% of each Groupon sold.

Was it widely known that Groupon's cut on deal of the day is 50%? I thought there was some to-do a few weeks back about them wanting 100% of Groupon proceeds for some cafe.
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And from the article:

"Not the sort of thing we'd publicize
on purpose, 'cause it is a little childish...but
they started it!"

"It seems awfully immature to resort to
fraternity tactics to draw attention,"

My comment above was my opinion (hence the "I think"), and I think a valid one.

Thanks for the link though. Good read.
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No coffeescript option? What a shame....
Thanks, that's helpful. I'm surprised FF and Chrome are claiming there's unsecured content on the https pages. I wonder if it's Google Analytics doing that...I can't think what else it could be.

Adding a page that lists all our contribs is on my to-do list - definitely agree that that's lacking. I also agree that the trial needs to be more explicit, and we should probably upsell with more than just an email when the trial progresses/ends. The other suggestions you made were helpful as well.

Thanks for taking a look!
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I've had the exact same problem on allfacebook.com ... as that image illustrates it's Facebook's plugins in many cases (fbcdn.net is one of Facebook's content delivery networks). Definitely creates a problem when Facebook is busy claiming the value of Facebook's social plugins while simultaneously taking forever to serve them up.
any clues? I bet it is going to be a freemium model.
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For what it's worth, this is a quick hack done in two train rides, but it does try to be correct, and relatively general. Let me know what you think...
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GPUs are good for algorithms with simple control flow (take conventional rendering where you basically does simple processing of huge amounts of vertices and pixels). If you have an algorithm with complex control flow (e.g. ray tracing, most problems in science) you will have to code really hard to achieve even 50% of peak. You can usually do something with an algorithm which is good for GPU but not optimal overall. So you have 30x speedup on GPU compared to CPUs but the scaling of this algorithm is worse then its more complex variant on CPU (e.g. O(n) vs O(log(n))). In the end many of these speedups are just marketing.

Moreover GPUs have problems with double precision floating point numbers which are a must for most scientific problems (though sometimes you can utilize mixed precision approaches -> estimate in single precision, then get a correction in double).

Another problem is having ECC (error correction). You don't want to run a computation for a week to find out that it crashed because of data corruption. Latest generation of Teslas has ECC, consumer cards don't.
You don't need a US-based merchant account to get a credit card processor. There are lots of UK-based ones, like SecureTrading... surely there must be some Portugese ones?
My condolences ;)

I had to do a lot of maintenance/enhancement work on an old PL/SQL app a few years ago. There were some interesting tricks in the language, but overall I was happy to escape it and move back to working in something a little more modern.
Very cool, and good on China for developing this. However, I would imagine that it matters less in the modern era of distributed computing how powerful the biggest computer is, but how powerful the biggest group of computers is. Isn't folding@home up to about 6 petaflops now?
There are almost 200 different countries in the world. You will never visit the vast majority of them. There are six and a half billion people in the world. You will only meet a tiny fraction.

I still care about this planet and what it means, even though most of it I will never experience.
Whenever I encounter someone arguing about federal government spending, I do a quick search for the word "military" and "defense", as it is the second largest line item in the budget at $663 Billion, below social security, and is the largest line item in the discretionary budget, larger than anything else by over $500 Billion.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budg...

I didn't find it in Carmack's article. It's a useful heuristic as it distinguishes people who know what the US spends its money on vs. those that do not.

All spending and consumption has something called a multiplier effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplier_(economics)
and specifically, with regard to government spending, there is the fiscal multiplier effect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_multiplier

essentially, all government spending produces some amount of multiplicative increase in gdp.

Of all government spending, guess what type has the lowest multiplier effect? Defense

Defense spending produces the least net gain to national wealth, standards of living, and productivity.

Additionally, defense spending disproportionately goes to private contractors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...

Almost every year, the defense budget represents the single largest wealth transfer from the public to private hands in the history of the world.

So, the question I put to Carmack, and thus those that tend to agree with him is this:
Exactly how inefficient is the federal government? If 60% of all discretionary spending is used in the least possible productive way, what portion of that overall federal inefficiency is directly related to discretionary defense spending? And finally, what political parties are more historically responsible for discretionary defense spending, thus with radically increasing the overall efficiency of our government? (See the gulf war, and the inception of the Iraq war and the Afghan war.)

Arguing for a smaller government is like arguing that you should decrease your startup's opex. The answer is almost always yes, but randomly cutting services without actually looking at what the big expenditures are, without looking at the productivity upsides of certain expenditures, etc. is foolhardy at best. Moreover, cutting the things that directly enable the productivity of your employees, rather than those things that do not directly enable the productivity of your employees is nothing short of insane.

It's like spending the money you would have spent on health insurance for your employees on a ridiculously expensive security system for your office. People get sick all the time, but you're about as likely to experience terrorism as you are to win the lottery. Would that make sense in your startup? Does it make sense for America?
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I'd argue that education is a public good. Even if you don't have kids, it seems like it would be in your interest to ensure that the people who will be running things in the future are informed and competent.
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Ad blockers suppress ads, but do not provide positive reinforcement. Site blocking software systems filter unwanted content, but do not substitute desired content in its place. It's not enough to slap the user's hand.

We could ask, "why not exercise self-control?" Some say there is no such thing as will power. Some insist otherwise. We could embark on a course of meditation, and this may quiet the chatter in our own minds. But it will not address the chatter of the Internet, which replicates the internal chatter of the mind (or at least my mind). Must we assume the burden of spiritual equipoise entirely from within?

The chatter of the Internet is not only distracting for us: our machines expend energy and clock cycles to provide us with extraneous cognitive load. The low signal-to-noise ratio costs them as well.

The domain name filtering service OpenDNS displays a block page at http://block.opendns.com if a site meets the criteria for filtering. This is negative reinforcement. We might provide positive reinforcement if we were to substitute an online to-do list, such as http://rememberthemilk.com, for the block page should we lose focus--to mention a crude first step.

RescueTime looked like a great idea, but for me, it became another example of mechanized negative reinforcement. It's too easy to defeat and ignore. There should be more of a feedback loop with users to provide them with real-time positive reinforcement. It's not enough to reply that a tool is only useful in the right hands. Some attempt has to be made to understand how to develop the right habits or the hands will vote with their feet.
Yeah they are. My comment meant for "their revenue model wrt flash".
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I already have some experience in an quasi anarcho-capitalist economy. Here are what I learned:

1. Cheaters are most problematics to deal with, especially with drive-by fraudsters. They make everything worse for everybody else, not just the direct recipient of the fraud. 80% of drive-by cheaters can be prevented with simple measures. However, the rest are long term scammers who build up reputation and than cheat over us. This is extremely difficult to prevent. Thus everyone factor in the risk of being cheated out of their money.

2. Reputation is VERY IMPORTANT in an economy with no court and police.

3. Paypal dollars and anything that is chargebackable is BAD MONEY. It is the DOMAIN of scammers and fraudsters. They also cause bank runs as people transfer their worthless money into something more valuable.

Is the economy a utopia? No. There are some scumbags who cheat and sometime got away with it. In one situation, their fraudulently brought merchandise got confiscated by an exchange mediator but not before it cause damage to the system. However, others were not so lucky. A guy got 2000 dollars in chargeback and had to shut down. What people will do, is learn how to handle cheaters, and find better methods to avoid cheaters. Since it is the internet, you can't just do "violence" or coerce individuals. It's impossible. Contracts are entirely based on reputation and trust. Nobody want to go to a state court and waste lot of money on lawyer.
Guess I didn't get the memo. I'm not quite at 500 yet, but it took 12 hours to make a site that makes 250 a day. I'm sure I can easily bring that up to 500 (for instance, the site doesn't even render in IE right now). And I can make another 10 like it.

In response to FreeRadical: It's all about the point of diminishing returns. I spent 6 years on my first site, and it's a huge amount of work with literally thousands of manhours put into it. Just a month ago I launched another site, intended to be a minimum viable product that I can just develop and leave, and it's working out OK thus far. Don't get me wrong, the first is very much successful (2MM+ pageviews a month), but that's thousands of hours I could have put into making multiple other sites, each making a lot less but relatively more.
Whitman destroyed HP's culture? I thought Fiorina was the HP CEO: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840389
I feel like this question was very recently asked, and the real question I have for you is: why do you call it a failure?

To me, failure is an antiquated term you outgrow in school: F means failure, which really means you can't advance on to the next term. After school, when does that ever matter as an entrepreneur? Have you ever not learned something valuable from a past entrepreneurial experience? Would you say you are better or worse off from having done those things in the past? You're always learning, always growing, and you are a man of free will who can do whatever else he wants.

How is that, in any way, failure?
i'm in nyc, so it won't work for me, but wanted to say... Nicely done!
Ask HN: Review my web app: http://nift.ie
Hi all

following on from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815395

This is the first web app that I've built. I wanted a cool project to show as portfolio, and I've always had an interest in task management. I also wanted to build something which fits my needs in terms of how I organise project tasks. I couldn't really find anything else like this out there (although I'm open to correction).

This thread convinced me I should build it: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/180/

I plan to add task scheduling and file uploads for tasks to this application in the near future.

I would really like to get feedback on what you think of this app as a possible business, and how I should proceed from here.

I'm also looking for work right now, so if anyone has something I could work on, I would like to hear from you. I'm based in Ireland but willing to relocate or work remotely.

Thanks for your time

Paul
Offer HN: I'll make a decal for your startup.
I make vinyl decals. It's not a business - I do it for fun. It's extremely satisfying to see an idea come to life so quickly, and the labor itself is somewhat therapeutic. I genuinely enjoy the creative process involved with making vinyl decals, and I sure could use a break from these brain-busting college courses. If there could only be one community I would give back to, this would definitely be the one.

So here's my offer: You have a startup. I make decals. I will make a vinyl decal for your startup - for free. You can stick it on your office window to appear more legitimate or slap it on the back of your car for advertising. I really don't care what you do with it, as long as it is your company's logo and/or website. These decals will be "die-cut" style, meaning there is no background or border. Here are some examples for clarification:

http://www.lorenburton.com/decals.jpg

No trademarked logos (unless you own the trademark). To keep things simple, let's do matte black or matte white only, maximum size 5"x8", and no crazy intricate designs. Single color logo/text (see examples).

Final thought: not sure how to handle shipping. Obviously there would be shipping costs incurred, but I don't feel comfortable charing HN for shipping. Any thoughts on how to handle this?

If your interested in a decal for your startup, send me an email at lorendburton (at) gmail.com, with .ai or .eps file attached. Please specify size and color.

Let's have fun with this! I'm interested to see how this idea is received, considering most "Offer HN" threads have been in regards to services. I am not looking for any personal gain here, unless you consider having fun and bringing ideas to life to be personal gain.
Are you saying the Apollo program was entirely impractical?