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> No law will ever be perfect - it's all about steps in the right direction.

Absolutely. The best is the enemy of the good. A better response for pro-legalisation people who disliked aspects of prop 19 would be to campaign for it, then when it's passed (and the dire predictions of the no lobby proven to be unfounded), campaign to improve it.

In Britain next year there will be a referendum on changing the voting system from FPTP to AV. Some people are opposing it saying it doesn't go far enough, and using pretty much the same arguments as aaronblohowiak. These people are IMO misguided; they are more likely to prevent the change they want from happening.
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This saved me an awful lot of time recently.
I consider myself a "competent debugger". ;-)

But more seriously: one of Go's selling points is fast compilation times. Even for large projects compilation is mostly I/O bound, which typically means sub-second compiles.
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Some very smart people here have mentioned mobile phones. Some other smart people have made the point that the original mobile phones predate the Apple II. Indeed, car phones go back way far in history but have more in common (historically) with radios.

There are three revolutionary things about mobile phones that came after the Apple II:

SMS (1984/5)

GPRS (1997)

The ubiquity of mobile phones (late 90s to mid 2000s) with data services.

The technology itself is rarely revolutionary (although developers of HIV treatment drugs may disagree - this also came after the Apple II). The thing that makes it revolutionary is what happens when it reaches ubiquity. Mobile phones with data used to be amazing things. I still remember using a Nokia Communicator for the first time, over an incredible 9.6k link from almost anywhere with GSM coverage. These days your average person in the street probably couldn't tell you whether they were on GSM, HSPDA or Wifi (my wife certainly can't, other than sometimes her phone goes 'slow'). That's what's revolutionary about mobile phones, that they're no longer magical and part of everyone's day.
Different sensors do not enter the picture, unless your application uses them all (99% of them don't). Different keyboards do not enter the picture at all. Different screen sizes are handled very neatly since 1.6.

Any other questions?
As a first step it's likely to compile down to LaTeX.
It's really, really bad code, and although it serves its purpose of being explicit, I wouldn't put it on WikiPedia.

By the way, if you really want to learn about learning, I strongly recommend that you return to the description in the wikipedia article and read it again, this time with your greater understanding. Ask youself: Why didn't I understand this first time round, and what should I have done differently to make sure I did?

It's only by such self-reflection like that you will improve your independent learning abilities. Here's the section in question:

An empty Bloom filter is a bit array of m bits, all
set to 0. There must also be k different hash functions
defined, each of which maps or hashes some set element
to one of the m array positions with a uniform random
distribution.

To add an element, feed it to each of the k hash
functions to get k array positions. Set the bits at all
these positions to 1.

To query for an element (test whether it is in the set),
feed it to each of the k hash functions to get k array
positions. If any of the bits at these positions are 0,
the element is not in the set - if it were, then all the
bits would have been set to 1 when it was inserted. If
all are 1, then either the element is in the set, or the
bits have been set to 1 during the insertion of other
elements.

That descriptions seems to me to be complete and clear. What did you not understand?
Org-Mode looks nice. One of the best things about posting your own ideas up is that you find out about all the other cool tools out there!
"2) Don't do business with Michael Arrington. He washes his dirty laundry on a very public blog without regard for his business associates (in this case, AOL)."

Posting this on techcrunch is, to me, an effective way of warning people not to mess with him and preventing future suits. The message I got was "Don't sue Michael Arrington unless you absolutely know you have the right of it".

There was a comment by lionhearted about a month ago on how he stopped people from bullying him. (Which seems to be what Arrington is doing to Calcanis.) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1765109

"I wished I'd learned that lesson earlier. Some people are animals. The ones that want to hurt you for no reason. Show them that you'll go to self-destructive lengths to defend yourself and avenge yourself upon them, and they'll stop."
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I think I've been working too long today. I read that headline and stared at it for a good 10 seconds trying to figure out why on earth airlines would be "un-ionized".
The kindle supports a number of formats natively (.doc, .rtf, .html, pdf, .mobi, .prc, jpg) but not the ones you list.

The little kindle isn't great for PDF - it's just too small.
You see, it's very easy to turn this story around, just alter the caption.

"It takes an American executive to disrupt cumbersome Indian banking", "With globalization, Americans go on to innovate overseas", "U.S. education is the driving force of innovation in modern India" and so on.

Note: they could probably do just fine with local education and an Indian COO. Point is you should be cautious with extrapolations from a single story.
I recently (23 hours ago) shaved my whole face (which was previously home to a beard that had been living there for a total of 12 years, besides a six month stint 5 years ago) to grow a moustache, but not for peta. I did it for Movember ( http://us.movember.com/ ) which is a site urging men to grow moustaches through the month of November in the hopes of raising awareness and money for men's cancers, primarily prostate cancer. I feel semi naked and everyone that has known me looks at me like a stranger, but it is for a good cause.
I wrote that for this:
I don't know if this is something new peta is doing but if they just launched this today or even within the last two weeks I feel like it is kind of wrong. MOvember has been doing this in some form or another for the last seven years, and they only do it in the month of November. Peta could have launched later or a few months earlier, but to launch at the same time it is probably going to far outshine this much smaller organization. Some good pr and no matter the reason, if someone sees a man with a moustache they are going to assume it is in support of peta. Of course I see the benefit in that, but if that is their intention that is a low for this organization. As a final thought on my first post here (long time lurker), a lot of this is speculation on my part, and I apologize. I have no right to assume this is peta's intention and it is a very big IF. As a final if; if peta has been doing this moustache campaign for 10 years, I am very much sorry for this whole post.
I don't see a "Get Started" button on https://dnsimple.com/. There is one on https://dnsimple.com/plans. If the homepage read "Manage All Your DNS, From Any Registrar, In One Place -- Get Started" you'd get alot of converstions off of your homepage. Maybe I'm missing something.

I understand you can't transfer domains free of charge--but what is your per-user incremental cost to set up DNS for a few domains? I guess your major expense is bandwidth? You can probably do a little math and figure out if it would be worth it.

I'd scratch the domain registration altogether unless it is a major source of revenue. To me it's a distraction from the core service.
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Virtual machines are great for isolation and defense in depth, not as the only security measure. It's like believing that a firewall will magically solve all your network security problems.

For experiments relying on that is fine, but not for anything more serious.
I've tried an 11" Macbook Air and love it. I never felt the iPad was for me, but given my space restrictions when travelling the new MBA seems ideal for me. I'm waiting for Lion to come out to see what that brings to the MBA, but so far the 11" is going to be my next personal laptop, and I'm finally going to retire my 10 year old Sony Vaio SRX-51 (with it's might 128mb of RAM and PIII-850). I somehow doubt my MBA will last as long though.
The rejection email would be better if:

1. It was addressed to the founders.

2. It had one or two bullet point suggestions/thoughts re: the application.
Yes, I'm UK based. I read The Times, Telegraph, Guardian or FT, depending on the day.

Whilst I think BBC News on radio and TV is good quality, the website is often of appaling quality.
Most applications don't use any sensors at all, yet you have to deal with the situation if you plan to use them. And there is a big difference in designing an application for devices having only a touchscreen keyboard and devices having a physical keyboard.
On the other hand, you don't have much educational data after university. You have 12 years of it after preschool.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. I personally think this is pretty good advice.

I never really excelled academically yet I became quite succeessful through pure hard work. Unfortunately I got a lot of bad advice as a kid and it was drilled into me that I would never be as successful as 'smart' people. Had I known that I could counter-act my disadvantage with pure grunt work then I probably would have been more successful from a younger age.
You wrote:

"You could directly attribute the fact that Apple isn't responsible for most of that hardware R&D for their high profit margins. They know to buy the cutting edge from the rest of the industry, put some software on it, and they've got a product."

I read this to mean that Apples high margins were primarily due to their offloading their hardware business to others. And I only pointed out that this is only _partly_ responsible for Apples high margins. But I see that I've read you incorrectly.

I never heard anyone say that the 3GS was shoddy when the iPhone 4 came out. Even before the iPhone 4 was released, everyone agreed that the screen resolution, camera etc. was a generation or two behind, and most reviewers had started recommending other phones with more features.

Like I said, some people "get" or appreciate Apples product design, and some don't. The fact that you're say that there's nothing special about their products shows that you don't. There's nothing wrong with that, just as there's nothing wrong with me not wearing designer clothing and being unable to tell the difference betewen a generic and a designer suit.

But as you say, it makes it impossible to discuss their products. Which is why this discussion is pointless :)

If Apples advantage was something very measurable, for instance if all their laptops had 20GHz processors and 256GB RAM, it would be obvious to everyone, including their competitors, why they were able to make so much money with such a small market share.

But it's difficult to quantify what "good product design" is. I can give countless examples of small details that Apples designers have thought about that other laptop makers haven't, but this is simply irrelevant to people who don't appreciate that. Similarly, a BMW owner could point to lots of small features and details that they like about their car, but others simply see an overpriced car with high maintenance costs.

Still, unlike Monster cables, you can point to many features or details that you simply don't get with other cars that still do the job of transporting people. The question is simply whether someone is willing (and able) to pay for the added design, features, and comfort.

I think that Apples success shows that there are enough people who _do_ care about it, and I think that's a big reason for their high profit margins.

Finally, I think you'll see that Motorola has won a lot of praise and attention for some of their better designed products, even though Apple is the current media darling.
That was college surely?
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Previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851088
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I was chatting to the owner of one of the mac reseller stores in Vienna a while back, and the best selling iPad for him was far and away the top-of-the-range 64GB 3G version. The (EU) price difference between that and the 64GB Air is only €200 (€799 vs €999).

Of course they are extremely different machines in practice.
With all due respect, this much is blatantly obvious but not necessarily the key to giving him a head start.

My father loved me unconditionally and I can't think of a single moment of my childhood where I ever questioned his love for me but with that said, my childhood was a mess. I sincerely struggled at school, I lacked any decent social skills and I was incredibly naïve when it came to how the world worked.

Whilst I'm happy that I've overcome these obstacles, I can think of plenty my father could have done to counter-act them in the first place.

Like every other father (and mother) that participates in this community, I would move mountains for my boy. I would happily lay my own life on the line to protect him and the question I initially asked was based on the assumption that the basic fundamentals of being a good parent were a given.

Now that those bases are covered, what can I do to ensure that he is at least one step ahead of the average kid growing up in a world where technology develops at an incredible rate and those who embrace this change storm ahead of the mean?
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That's silly. Everybody knows the transporter messes up Polaroid film.
Great initiative. Get Ctrl-C Ctrl-E to work and I'll be even more happy :)
Is this a joke or is he serious? I'm not native English speaking, so I may miss some ironic details.

quote: "When you make an app that you've sweated over and spent days crafting—so it's as good as it can be—you owe it to yourself to charge for that app. Otherwise what you're saying is your app is worthless."

This app isn't worthless, because I invested my time in it. So it's at least worth that much time. If I charge for it is my personal decision and may depend on a lot of reasons.
If "worth" equals money for you, that's simply a poor view.

quote: "The thing is when you make an app free your audience doesn't thank you for it."

Who cares? I made that thing. It was fun to make and then it's out. Take it or leave it...
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hiring more junior pilots and firing senior pilots

This would not be permitted by the union - he covers that later in the article.
I did write "in theory" more because i've not developed for Android in a long time, and only know from the beginnings of Android that they did a pretty good job in supporting different devices. At that time there only was the HTC Dream and the emulator, so i can't speak of experience with such a big range of Android phones nowadays. I only know that the apps i've written back then should "in theory" also run on the Nexus One without problems.

As you are talking about games, i can imagine that this is much harder on Android as you can't rely on the built-in UI-Framework and have to handle different resolutions yourself.
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" I am poking around because I'd like to have some side work for when I leave the country"
so you do need a job then, eh?
Computers don't right the rules, people do and guess who works in the FAA? Former pilots.

Autonomous drones can already fly but they block off dozens of sq.miles for them to fly. Anyway there is legislation going up to allow drones in controlled airspace.
Guess what? It requires each one to get the same type rating and hours as a commercial pilot. Which increases the cost significantly.
United (UAL) would be an example of that happens when you do that (the result in my experience is resentful cabin crew who treat passengers as if they're doing us a favour by allowing us aboard their personal vehicles).
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Actually, computers have demonstrated over and over that you don't have to be intelligent to be a brilliant chess player.
The sensors situation is the same on all platforms - if you want to use them, you have to handle them. If not, just ignore them. How is that more complicated on Android?

The difference with keyboards - the original point was "all the keyboards" (i.e. HTC IME, Swype, etc), not just hardware vs software. When you prepare your application for software keyboard, whether pan-and-scan or resize, it will just work with hardware keyboard (opposite is slightly more complicated: when you assume only hardware keyboard, then the software keyboard has surprises in layouts for you).

Getting OT: sometimes I wonder, how people could handle PCs 20 years ago. You had CPUs with different speeds (286 to 486), different graphics cards with different resolutions (EGA, VGA, SVGA), operating system that didn't abstract the differences and yet the PC was considered single platform, much more successful than competing unified platforms. There wasn't rampart rationalization against "fragmentation", like today.
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...and under fair weather conditions. Under more adverse conditions will be done manually.

It's fairly easy to tell a computer, "See that line (runway slope), follow it".
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"Usually my machines start getting sluggish after a few months for some reason..."

The Windows effect. Doesn't seem to happen in Linux...
Tech journalism at its worst, once more:

1) Of course the data is skewed! Please don't use a headline only to correctly question its content in the last sentence.

2) Fragmentation hits at two, largely orthogonal levels - there are different versions of the base OS (1.6, 2.1, 2.2) as well as different top-level UIs/distributions (HTC Sense, Samsung stuff, stock Android). The fragmentation problem would persist even if 100% of all accesses came from 2.2 devices. This is equivalent to claiming that Linux is a unified platform because 77% of all google.com visitors use the same kernel.

3) Don't forget the hardware problem. iOS and webOS aren't perfect in that respect, but comparatively harmless.
Anyone else tired of the seemingly-endless barrage of hissy-fit tabloid-fodder stories related to Silicon Valley bigshots?

Things like Musk's marital problems, Arrington's latest enemy of the week, etc.... it's just all such a ridiculous waste of time when there far more important things to concern oneself with!
Still, if we can get a couple more spacecrafts, the chance of everyon dying gets much smaller.

Not only that, but the skills and knowledge we gain with it make us even harder to kill. One of these days we may even surpass cockroaches.
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The time it takes to open Firefox is dominated not by computation but by waiting for the correct chunks of data to rotate past your hard disk's read head. Even with an SSD I/O bandwidth and latency are probably still the bottlenecks. Even assuming disk I/O took zero time, it's likely that loading Firefox would still dominated by waiting, this time for cache misses.
Not really great for PDFs, they are shown with a border bigger than the one of regular ebooks and the zoom options are only 100% 150% 200%... Even 150% is too big to fit on the screen.
It doesn't support many formats natively, only mobi,pdf and not much else, conversion is offered by amazon via mail but there is Calibre (win,lnx,osx?) that can easily convert from nearly every format (e.g. epub). You could simply convert what you want to read and transfer via usb.
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Too bad shipping is very expenvive...
Actually it would be more like, you sold it to the employees but they left you in charge since they don't have any experience running the company. Now you are free to make all the stupid decisions you like and they are stuck with the consequences. Great deal!
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Holy crap, that is indeed very useful.
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If customizing the boot process and EFI for your very specific make of SSD is cheating, then yes they are cheating.

Also, from Anandtech's test a 15" MBP with an SF-1200 SSD has almost the same bootup performances (19.1s vs 15.5s for the 11" MBA and 14.4 for the 13").
I find it more fascinating to watch corporations shit all over the Americans.
The Apple ][ had color, you insensitive clod.
Republicans and conservatives make the same excuse when they lose. Trust me. "The liberals have better message discipline because they have the media and academia all saying with one unified voice that they want $ISSUE for these reasons, whereas we free-thinking conservatives..."

It is a crappy argument when we make it, too.

The conservative political establishment is much, much more fractured on the issue of drug legalization than you appear to believe they are. The most influential conservative opinion magazine in the country is pro-legalization and has been for, literally, decades now. It is quite contentious within the Republican Party. See also immigration.
Conservatism and liberalism as they relate to government have come to mean the opposite in the US, since most conservatives want to conserve the limited powers of the Constitution and liberals want new state power to impose equality of outcome. A smaller government is less likely to boss you around. For this reason, libertarians vote for conservatives more often than not. At least this one does.
I favour plain TeX for a resume. LaTeX is based on the principle of writing structured text telling to tell it what you mean, and letting it deal with the presentation. With a resume, it's worth spending extra time doing the presentation yourself.

That said, it does take time to micromanage the presentation. Last time I needed a resume, I was a student and had the time. I don't know what my next resume will be in, or if I'll ever need one again.