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> #4 isn't hard to overcome with unobtrusive JS.

I cannot believe this statement. Unobstrusive javascript wires up events using javascript code instead of onclick attributes in tags. If your javascript doesn't load, it can't wire up events. Obtrusive javascript would work just fine because it's embedded in an attribute (like onlick) on the tag. (Assuming javascript is turned on and the browser supports it.)
Document retention policies are very common and rarely hush-hush. The only time they would have a need to make it "off the record" would be when they were subject to discovery regarding a lawsuit or criminal charge.
> CO2 is essentially airborne fertilizer.

Sure, but as with fertilizer on fields, there are consequences for using way too much.

> I'd rather be alive during an interglacial, abundantly green geological period.

As long as there aren't a billion or so refugees from the low-lying areas rampaging through.
Yes, cooking ostrich can be tricky - it is easy to make it too dry. Last night a friend recommended you marinate it in balsamic vinegar first.
This doesn't work very well if your password reset screen gives errors if the user doesn't exist. Or you can look up users by a given url. (deviantArt.com gives each user a subdomain that is the same as their username, easy lookup)
I always have water next to me. I go through liters/day, more on gym days.

I enjoy good coffee. Straight espresso is my favorite, although I will drink regular coffee with just some milk in it. Maybe I'm odd, but enjoy savory/bitter flavors much more than sweet.

Diet sodas. The regular versions are just too sweet. I probably have 1 diet soda/day. The fizz and little bit of sweetness seems to go well with lunch.

Good beers. I love pale ales, but have been experimenting more with darker stouts. A local bar makes a great coffee stout that is very tasty. I also like wine and tend to bounce back and forth between wine and beer with dinner depending on my mood and current weather.

Liquor drink of choice is vodka rocks or vodka tonic.
Can't go wrong with the Doublewood my friend. I'm working on a bottle of it right now,
I understand the security argument about not giving out more information than you absolutely need to.

But, I hate 'low-risk' sites that do this when I'm not sure of my username/password. If I can't remember what username I used 6 months ago when I signed up then at least tell me I got that wrong instead of trying different passwords.

Even better, scratch usernames and let me log in with my email address.
Perhaps a good idea for a Ask HN would be WHO do you drink with.
perennial chicken/egg problem, but they 'chickened' out I guess (yeah, bad pun).

Would be interesting to know the final reason for killing it. At that time, I had a need for Flex Builder, and wanted it on Linux, and would have paid for it in a heartbeat. Others I know would have too. But we couldn't because it's not available.

I've paid for other software on Linux in the past (financial software, mostly) and got tired of waiting for the programs I wanted and needed to be available on Linux, so I jumped to a Mac. I'd been a rather late holdout, only jumping in late 2008, after about 8 years of trying to do only Linux on the desktop.

I guess there were never enough of us to make certain software profitable, or insanely profitable, which is perhaps what vendors like Adobe were after.
Maybe. I don't know about the US, but in Europe, reading this book in public would provoke a strong reaction in people. (I think selling or even owning the book is illegal in several countries.) So I think somebody doing that would be more likely to be making a statement of some sort. What kind of statement, may vary... (They could have Nazi sympathies, or be vehemently anti-censorship, or just like to shock people, etc.)
I haven't had a crash since installing 10.10. The only restart came when a kernel security patch showed up.

But I also never have crashes in XP, so we probably use our computers for different things.
I should have clarified- Not ice, but whiskey stones. Just didnt want to confuse people here not familiar with the stuff. I like it cold, dont know what to say :)
If the execution time of the function varies considerably (i.e., some of the sub-problems are faster to solve), then you want to be able to keep the other processors busy with the next sub-problems while one of them keeps gnawing at a particularly difficult one.

If the timing is very predictable, OpenMP's parallel-for construct fits your bill very nicely.
While it has many unfortunate effects in society, the ability to make up your mind about something/someone in a split second is actually a survival mechanism.
"there is any such thing as objective quality in board games, go is objectively the best game anyone has come up with yet"

Could you please elaborate?
You've described the architecture of a ~15-year old engine called NeuroGo: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~emarkus/neurogo/

All of the different solvers ran on the same machine, as far as I know.

It turns out that the Monte Carlo engines are doing far, far better than the grand hierarchical neural net designs of the past, though.
The power of a graph.
For me the trick is to just wait for a few days whenever I lust after new items (1080i vs 720p? Feels like a vital decision now but tomorrow I'll stop thinking about it). I do indulge in expensive clothes, and gadgets that have a high return on productivity (like an SSD drive or quality kitchen utensils). I also spend on food, but that turns out to be a great investment for psychological, social and health reasons.
I've never played, but I'd be happy if someone could point me to the best place to learn.
"My little piece of privacy" - Robotic Curtain
The main problem with this is that it would greatly increase the effectiveness of brute-force attacks.

The secret username would have to be forced to be a long string without dictionary words, numbers, capitalization etc, which somewhat undoes any potential advantage. Even then it's not very secure in comparison.

Even if a potential intruder does know a username, there is only one possible pass key, but by removing that link you're free to guess the pass key of any user in the system.
> using way too much

Hence my link to CO2 levels over Geologic Time. Do you think there was "way too much" CO2 in the past?
I'm in Taipei at the moment -- don't suppose you have any suggestions for a Go club to go to?
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It doesn't seem to work with certain foreign songs and artists. For example, it couldn't find Hotel Supramonte by Fabrizio De André which is available on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hotel+supramonte...).
Forming and forging
This isn't my work, just linking to it. Very cool - though not exactly working for the purpose he intended!
Same here -- watching all of Hikaru no Go motivated me enough to get to 1-dan. Great anime.
Wait, you have to run an Air app in order to download an HTML5 widget?
That is a cool idea. I had no problems with the UI, just entered a song and hit "go". But you definitely need an overlay presenting the song title and artist name in MTV-style with a fancy fade-in and fade-out, that would be awesome :)
A gazillion-user comet server with C
I'm going to be implementing chat soon in this product I'm building (kind of keeping it on the DL until I have something big to show)... so I started researching comet servers. And I came across this:

http://aleccolocco.blogspot.com/2008/10/gazillion-user-comet-server-with.html

Whoa nelly, this should do nicely. Thought I'd share.
Any idea on how to subscribe to Best of HN?
Get a distributed file system and keep it on a number of different machines -- then you don't have to care about the connections and it scales easier to more users.
They send a cyborg back in time to collect samples. While he is there, he kills Sarah and the world ends in 3... 2... 1... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator

Seriously, ice core samples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core
Ask HN: Which is the best netbook for HNers?
Taking the following post one level lower:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1824563

Do you think that somebody could do "light" development with a netbook? Which one are you using or recommending?
The 1,000-Pound Car Challenge
Why don't you guys [Hunch] go after a single problem
Yeah that would be really cool!
I tried to find some code examples of that being done in JQuery, but couldn't find any. Anyone with a good idea how to fix this? What about the cpu load or isn't that an issue?
For Earth? No. For human society as we currently know it? Seems that way. We'll survive climate change, but flooding places like Bangladesh is going to cause tremendous upheaval.

Humanity survived the ice age, but that didn't make it a fun period in our history.
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Architecture in a nutshell:

http://i.imgur.com/IZ52u.png

A list of 10 moves from 30 different machines, even using a heavy-weight protocol like SOAP, would be nearly instantaneous. I would favour a light-weight format such as JSON, though. For other applications, I agree, network bandwidth would be a possible bottleneck.

My initial idea was to have each engine return ten moves, in sequence, with the first move being most important. The moves need not be delivered simultaneously. The Master selects the lowest scoring move that was picked by multiple engines. Other ideas include weighting (the fuseki engine's input is not very important in chuban or yose), and imperative moves (death engine forces a play to save a 30 point group).

The Master would send requests for moves by submitting a board position and whose turn to play.

What I really like about the idea, though, is that anyone could develop an engine (in any language) that adheres to the protocol, and add it to the AI network. At any time.

P.S.

http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/java/jigo/
The Coast Guard is saying it's an algae bloom, and I gotta say it certainly does look like one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tide#Overview

Of course, the jury's out until the lab results come back.
Awesome Online Video Player
The new baby Air seems like a perfect candidate.
If very light dev, you could even terminal into your main dev machine from your iPad and work that way (maybe you just want to code a quick bug fix)
Looks like that webmaster had the "Selfish Gene"
Why 7 litres? You could be damaging your kidneys if you drink too much.
true, but its main alcohol is gin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_(cocktail)
Yup. Sadly, they didn't lock it to IP, so people can see both if they use different browsers.

Or maybe they locked it to the browser's user agent, which makes -no- sense.

Or perhaps they have different versions of the site for different browsers, and one of them hasn't updated yet.
in order of frequency:
* water
* green tea, preferably 'tie guan ying' (chinese green)
* juice

i've outgrown alcohol but my taste for beer never left me, so in bars i now drink alc.-free beer when available.

i don't drink coffee. i sometimes grab a redbull to keep me awake at nights, interesting how well caffeine helps with that if you have barely any tolerance to it.
See ludwig's comment:

http://igolocal.net/
I tried to do a lookup for Fabrizio De André, Hotel Supramonte is not in the top tracks of Fabrizio (at least not in the Last.fm db), I selected Via Del Campo: http://listandplay.com/#Search~Similar~Fabrizio%20De%20Andr%...

Btw: problem with some of the videos on YT is that a small amount is not embeddable, that could explain why a video doesn't shows up on sites like listandplay.com
Coffee with sugar and cardamon.

Also, Kava.

Those two in addition to lots of coconut water
Coffee (home-ground, moka pot) in the morning and throughout the day, Tea (herbal and/or earl gray) in the evening. Water every now and then (but not enough).

Rarely I drink a glass of orange juice with my breakfast. If I get the chance (i.e. come close to an organic store) I'll get a large pack of coconut water and drink it all up.

I used to drink a lot of beer, but lately I've been switching to red wine and at the same time lowering my overall alcohol intake.
Minimum Viable Product :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
First thing in the morning, two squeezed oranges, then some tea (two mugs or more, black, no sugar, no milk). Sparkling water at lunch, usually. One espresso after lunch (black, no sugar, no milk). Some more tea at 5 o'clock. Water at dinner, maybe some wine, and soup in winter. Herbal tea at night. Total liquid consumption: between 2 and 4 liters, every day.
CPU load shouldn't be an issue at all. It is really easy with jQuery. You just make a div with a high z-factor and trigger fadeIn(), fadeOut() whenever the video changes:
http://api.jquery.com/fadeIn/
Because when zero is not marked it is impossible to judge the relative magnitude of all graph fluctuations without looking at the y axis scale. On this graph a lot of people (incl. me) would be tricked into thinking that in the last 100 years the amount of CO2 increased by an order of magnitude. Now, I know that's impossible, and I checked the scale at the left to find the usual suspect. But many normal people would just believe what they see. It's typical deceit method that is widely used in corporate presentations, journalism, etc. The only excuse for not marking zero on most charts is if you want to show minor fluctuations more precisely, which is not the purpose of this graph.
there's a go club in soma. we're meeting at twitter every wednesday at 8am but have been thinking of moving a more accessible time and location and call it @somagoclub. anyone interested? (soma, san francisco)
Yeah, I tried it out after reading the above post. Way too buggy to rely upon for client work.
Ask HN: Do you (or do you want to) play Backgammon?
I noticed a couple of questions about HNers that play chess and go, so I thought I'd ask about Backgammon. I play Backgammon, not as much as I used to, but still fairly regularly. Anyone here play Backgammon? Fancy a game on gamesgrid.com?
When I type the name of an artist the list of songs that is displayed seems randomly sorted. That makes it harder to find what I'm looking for.

After selecting a song nothings seemed to happen, until I noticed the progress indicator in the upper right corner. Center screen would be a more visible location.

The most practical problem seems to be the difference in volume levels; I keep having to adjust the volume. I realise that that could be hard to fix, but it's what made me switch back to the radio.
By the way Go is one of the most challenging games for AI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go
That's exactly why https://loom.cc/ uses only a passphrase, with no user name. Users are not identifying themselves, they are identifying a wallet.
If you look at the experiments that define the 73/76 mile point, it's where atmosphere truly ends among other scientific measurements.
Agreed; the whole area that has guns as its nexus is the big one for me (e.g. Heller and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, as well as the minor detail you note). The rights to life and liberty come before the right to "pursuit of happiness" (a code phrase/expansion of the right to property), which is where software patents are an issue, but demonstrably not as big a one as the submitter claims (else HN would be a ghost town).
I try to get a mix of lunch types in. Having said that, lately I've been getting a lot of sandwiches for lunch, and there's a subway next door to the office.

At home I quite like eating decent salads. Some finely chopped red onions, tuna, rosemary, thyme and parsley mixed in with some rocket, a few leaf veg, a teaspoon of mayo, a teaspoon of mustard and some olive oil are damned tasty, pretty filling and very healthy.

I've also discovered Quinoa recently and am using that instead of rice at the moment, just trying it out - quite nice stuff.
Ok, I've got the fadeIn/fadeOut already running at this moment (top left). I'll see if I can make it more fancy, any fancy JQuery examples of what's nice is welcome :)
Cool stuff. Do you already have an API for people to write their own solvers -- something that passes a board state and an interface to return ranked choices?
How do you stop people on the network from overranking their own AI's choices (assuming this were an open project)?
You seem to suggest a pessimistic and static view of human society. The planet is not static, climate isn't either; why would society and civilization be? is there a single, optimum equilibrium for humanity? what's the evidence?
Make it auto-save and remove the save button :)
You know whenever I read about this debate for some reason I recall George Carlin's prophetic words;

"The planet is fine....

The people are fucked."

http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&...

Whether we like to admit this or not; the earth and life will go on without us. It's our own survival we are fighting for over here; not a complex system in which life has taken hold by surviving through tough odds without the intend of surviving. This piece of rock really doesn't give a damn.
My advice would be to make this a Roku channel. The SDK is available, the API is fairly easy. This would win you MAJOR brownie points within the Roku community (forums.roku.com). I'd love to be a beta tester.
> The users who are logical enough to see how the system works are the ones who get far more than they put in.

Your business model requires minimizing the number of those people and maximizing the number of suckers. There's a reason they're seen as scams and exploitative.
Okay, I love it! Thanks for building this. I had been toying with the idea but I never seemed to be getting the time.

It seems very simple to use. I did have to try out a few different songs since it wasn't able to generate its list based on the songs that I initially tried.

I will have to spend more time in understanding the playlist aspect of it though.
This is actually one of my first attempts at blogging, so I appreciate the feedback. To be honest, I was not expecting to make the front page.
There's no single, optimum equilibrium, but a disaster that makes double-digit percentages of the planet refugees seems to fit squarely in the "sucky" end of the spectrum.
The list is sorted on 'most popular' according to the Last.fm DB.

The reason why I immediately close the overlay is because I want to avoid users to click other songs while another ajax search is still running and I want to give the experience of the thing going 'fast'. ('overlay closes, hmmm something happens, ah there is my MTV!' instead of 'selected artist, mmm what is it doing? searching, mmm does it work?, reclick, reclick').

Volume could be a problem in some occasions, I've already tried to find a way to measure the volume level and normalize it, problem is that I can't get the values from the Youtube Flash player API. Is someone aware of other ways to fix this?
Probably because they are talking about phone manufacturers and not platforms. Any single Android manufacturer (with the possible exception of Motorola) likely doesn't have market share anywhere near these numbers. Then there is the complication that companies like HTC sell non-Android phones too, which really muddies the water.
Alarmism has a really bad track record.
Yes.

I have an Aspire One (Acer).

I wouldn't use it exclusively at home, but it is fine for using on a bus or a train and cheap enough that I don't worry about people stealing it.

I use a simple text editor + the command line --- I don't know if it would run a heavyweight IDE. But it is happy running e.g. a web server.

It would be nice to have a faster SSD --- the one it has seems slower than a HDD. That's the only part I am tempted to upgrade.
Ask HN: Any desperate things you did just to keep your startup alive?
I love the story of how the AirBnB guys sold cereal boxes just to survive. Does anyone know any more similar stories about successful startups.
Just make it big now, you don't need more jQuery, only CSS styling.

<div id="overlay" style="background:black;color:white;width:960px;font: 24px 'Droid Sans';padding:20px;padding-left:150px;">Name of the Song<br />Artist</div>
there's nothing wrong with looking at some of the data first per se, provided you do not use the same data to draw conclusions. i.e., have a training and a test data set.
I used to be 2-4k but had trouble holding 5k* on igs a few years ago. If I started playing now I would probably struggle holding 8k.

Life, my daughter, 2 personal projects and work got in the way.

I miss the social aspect of Go, I find the internet incarnations are too sterile. I love having a tea and a chat while playing, I spend enough time staring at the screen.

Would probably play again if I found the right group.

Pushing the upper kyus would require way too much work than I am willing to commit at the moment to the game.

Love Go, it is truly eye opening.

Talking about smoke, my Go teacher "Mr No" used to smoke 200 cigarettes a day in Go clubs in Korea.
> It's really time developers added Adobe to their "friends" list, imo.

Maybe after they fire some of their bloggers for continually stirring up the pot and stop adding to PDF in a that puts everyone else at a disadvantage. Open standards kinda need to be open in the changing.
Having my food be smart energy packets reduces the excitement of sitting down to dinner. On the other hand, it's been indispensable for getting back in shape -- this combined with working out 4/5 days a week and I'm down to 190 from 210 a year ago, and 245 four years ago.

Breakfast:
Shake -- strawberries, blueberries, bananas, Greens Plus superfood powder, chia seeds, flax seeds, soy milk.

Lunch:
Usually turkey and field greens and a couple apples. Occasionally PBJs on high-protein bread. Sometimes Thai or Vietnamese pho.

Dinner:
Once or twice a week, NY strip medium-rare in a cast-iron pan.

A ton of salmon, three or four nights a week -- fresh, canned.

Tilapia. Been replacing this with pork cutlets lately.

Mix and match any of these with steamed broccoli, baked tomatoes, cauliflower, brown Basmati rice, cottage cheese.

No butter, no sauces -- salt, pepper, sriracha, habanero powder etc. for seasoning.

It'd be possible to add a lot more variety if I wanted to take the time to get creative with it.
If you want to learn, the easiest way to start would be on a 9 by 9 board using a program like gnu-go.

Computers are awfully predictable and have a hard time even on a 9 by 9 board.

Next up, I would look at checking out a local Go club, maybe read a book or two, maybe check out igs/kgs.
1.) Water
2.) Black Tea with Mint instead of morning coffe
3.) Red wines (semi dry)
4.) White wines (dry and sweet)
5.) Occasional beer
6.) Coffee
7.) occasional liquor

I'm actually drinking less and less coffee and beer. Both are being substituted by tea and wine respectively.
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You saw what she chose to show you.
I've tried to pick it up, have not found any clubs or anything in Milwaukee, so I've had to play via computer. Due to that, I haven't been able to pick it up as much as I'd like.
"....BioNectar4534.... " of Merc - that is so funny. Where do they come up with names like these?

The energy density of batteries is probably going to be the single most critical deciding factor for future car weights. The day the battery densities reach 10 times the current ones... the possibilities would be very, very interesting...
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10815