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I think iPad Apps are difficult breed - I bought your app because I thought it sounded interesting, but I didn't actually use it.

-do you know how many users start using it regularly?
You can probably also download a photocopied PDF of it, as you can many English books, as well as American TV shows and movies. Actions in China is divided into the "official" and the "unofficial". Officially, only 20 foreign movies a year are allowed in. "Unofficially", you can choose from hundreds at your local DVD store, nowadays usually with 8 or 10 movies, or an entire season of TV episodes, on the one disk, going for less than US $1. Sometimes when they build a brick wall here, someone else will come back within a day to smash an ugly-looking hole in it. Officially, no-one's allowed through, but unofficially, you are.
There's a plugin for that, not perfect but does the job.
> is actually a very valuable contribution to science and society -- what are the point of such models if they don't work

Agreed. Some papers just say, "We tried this and it doesn't work", and that's a contribution, too.

I would just like to point out that there is a good amount of unwarranted drama that overemphasizes his contribution and unnecessarily attacks fundamental contributions like the Black-Scholes model. It's especially appealing to the larger public who are looking for a black & white "us vs. them" simplified explanation for the financial crisis.
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I have used this, it really works well. You dont have to use the example UI they give you, you can build your own. It throws all the relevant events from a unified API. The UI you see exists in a totally separate library from the core.

I have put it in a couple of projects. Best file upload solution I've found.

It's from moxiecode, the people who did TinyMce.
Not true. Photoshop has had support for 16 bits since at least version 3. What CS brought was full 16 bit support for all layer adjustments and painting features. Before that 16 bit was only supported by a subset of the available editing options.
I'm a constant immigrant and I can say this is not really a Chinese phenomena, but probably has more to do with immigrant mindset. I think because she is a successful driven professor she has upped the ante on this. So, in addition to what her mother considers successful she has added the cutthroat business and academic world of what is considered successful, then drummed that into her kids and got a book deal out of it.

As an immigrant from a caribbean island I see where she is coming from almost perfectly. Immigrants to the US aren't, in general, ditch diggers and gardeners. It requires a clean record, education, and motivation. Then when you arrive in the US the state isn't required to give you anything. From the moment you land, you and your family are basically on your own to find housing and work, though they do have local outreach programs to help in this. This survivorship mode carries on even when you are successful and especially when you have kids. My mom had few words for me, "STUDY!" and "What did you learn today?". "I love you", was reserved for birthdays and Christmas. Playing was reserved for weekends and summer breaks.

The one thing she did impart to me was motivation. At some point, when work demanded more from her, I had to be completely self-sufficient (or as much as a 10 year old could be). I was looking after my brother and sisters, studying, and running the household by myself (notice I haven't mentioned my father...long story). I enrolled in music courses, summer study courses, and enrolled at a magnet school. My mother stopped pushing me to excel and I started doing it on my own.

Now, I've moved to another country and started a family. And that same immigrant psychology of sink or swim has manifested in me. My son is only 3 but I'm pushing him to excel academically. I've said some of the same words to him that Chua has told her daughters (minus the verbal abuse). And I think at some point he will also be self sufficient, no angry mother or father leaning over his should to make sure he does his work or chores.

At the same time, the relationship I have with our mother is vastly different than what my brother and sisters have with her. I speak to her like a soldier speaks to an officer. They speak to her like a child to speaks to a mother. I'm really jealous that they have this type of relationship, and they are jealous that I'm the golden son.
I've been using GIMP for prototyping instead of Paint Shop Pro lately, and while it works well enough and I've gotten used to it, I have to say, there are dozens of small issues that add up to a UX disaster.

The Toolbox isn't dockable, but "brushes" is both a dropdown button on the toolbox and a dockable window. "Show Grid" and "Snap to Grid" are in the View menu, while "Configure Grid" is in the Image menu. The Color Tools are in both the Tools menu and Colors menu.

It just seems convoluted at first because there's so much duplication and so many areas where the wrong UI element was chosen - it's just a mess. On top of this, a lot of common tasks, like copy-paste-moveSelection, have at least one extra click compared to PS or PSP, and it all adds up to have a dramatic effect on productivity.

I don't think Gimp will die, but I'm guessing that, at least for hobbyists, it'll probably be dethroned by whichever web-based solution gets to the head of the pack.
> In his book, Agassi talks about hating tennis. He really does. His father, an immigrant to the USA from Iran, drilled tennis into him obsessively from a young age, constantly telling him he's going to be #1 in the world.

That tells something about the common wisdom that to succeed at anything, you have to love what you do. I'm talking just about results here, of course, not quality of living.
Uploadify is also a jQuery plugin and works really well for us:

http://www.uploadify.com/
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As a data point, my grandparents are deaf, and their use of SMS has pretty much replaced TTY Relay, and made it much easier for them to have quick conversation with almost anyone.

They still seem to use video chatting within their group of friends with hearing difficulties, but it's reserved for the type of conversations we would have over the phone.
You can chose to enable/disable the various uploading methods at runtime, including HTML4. This must have been disabled on the example you looked at.
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I take from this article that the decline effect is merely an illusion. What initially appears to be a scientific breakthrough is found out to be nothing more than (i) random noise or (ii) hype resulting from publication bias (publish only the positive results and ignore the negative).
File a bug. Be a good citizen.
But it's been open source for 8 years and under active development:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#Development

There can't be a huge amount of the original source left, surely?
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How about optional pay per use?

Like a sin jar.
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>Hmm. You don't think that people's preferences tell us anything?

It's irrelevant because it's an incredibly over-simplistic metric and it's subject to manipulation (i.e. everyone hearing 2nd and 3rd hand the US is the greatest country in the world, which in some ways it was some decades back and deciding to go there).

>American poor people are stereotypically obese and have multiple cars and big screen TVs.

Done with credit. You could have the same thing in Romania if they let everyone had 5 credit cards, different credit for their house, difference credit for their car and different credit for the place where they buy their TV.

Being fat doesn't mean they're getting more food, it means they're getting more bad food. A better thing to look for would be a place where the poor are not hungry and not malnourished.

>Oh, and they have free healthcare too.

What are you talking about here, ER care? Can they get a hip replacement for "free" like they could in e.g. Sweden? Why are cancer patients divorcing their spouses to ensure said spouse wont end up losing his/her retirement money paying medical costs of a dead person?

>Why is comparing the pressure between {your favorite western European country} and the US irrelevant?

Because it's impossible to quantify why this pressure is happening. Is it because of coincidence? Misinformation? Informed choice? Opportunity (e.g. "we can walk to the US but can't afford to get to where we really want, and anywhere seems like it would be better than here")? Given that we can't say with even the slightest amount of confidence, this number is almost completely meaningless.

A number that would have more meaning would be if some place had no or negative immigration but that's not the case in any first world country as far as I'm aware.

>Huh? Opportunity is surely one factor in "place to be".

But it speaks to the location of the actor, not how good the country he's going to since he is choosing the new country over less than the whole set (i.e. if someone leaves mexico to go to the US that is more likely to mean that he/she chose to go the US over staying in mexico or going somewhere else in middle america than to mean that he chose it over France).
Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby is sooo not like a typical introductory biology textbook that it's not even a comparison. W(p)GtR is hip, to-the-point, artistic, witty, with a distinctive voice, intelligently executed, and actually fun. A typical introductory biology textbook is usually designed by a committee with no actual UI design experience and has all the sex appeal of a fifty-something guy with male pattern baldness and bear belly who wears pleated khakis with a cell phone holster on the belt repeating a few slang phrases he memorized in order to seem cool.

It's like Calvin and Hobbes comic vs Microsoft Bob -- sad, really.

Basically the lesson is that if you don't know your audience (also when your audience consists of the entire young population of a country as diverse as the U.S., which is the case with textbooks), do not try to pull off cool and fun, because many people's idea of cool and fun is very different from yours. And if you must try to be cool/fun, hire some people who actually know how to be cool/fun in the first place.
I read the title:

"New Glass Stronger and Tougher Than Steel"

An immediate question came to mind even before I started reading the body:

"How much does it weigh?"

Question not answered or addressed in the article. I hate it when articles don't answer the most obvious questions.
Is the issue not one of network effects?

Facetime and Skype don't require you to own a video phone to make and receive calls, you can do it on a laptop or desktop either to people with video phones, or to other computer users.

Most of the network marketed video calls have been phone to phone meaning the number of people you can call (which network effects tell us will have a significant impact on uptake and popularity) is far far smaller.

So yes, you could pull the numbers, but it's not clear what they'd tell you about the situation we find ourselves in now.
> It also makes me wonder why WSJ published such an apparently ridiculous article.

Chua is trying to drum up interest for her new book on the same topic which goes on sale today. Her publisher, Penguin Books, is owned by Pearson PLC. Rupert Murdoch and News Corp (which owns the WSJ) has plenty of history with Pearson -- owning a significant stake in the company in the 80's, buying HarperCollins from Pearson in the 90's, competing with Pearson's Financial Times lately. I don't know if there is any Murdoch ownership in Pearson now, or any publishing agreements between the two companies, but I doubt the WSJ article was published based on editorial reasons alone.
As far as I know (and I've lurking on the gimp developer list for 10+ years), GIMP has never been a GNOME application. So, from that point of view, there's no particular reason to expect it to conform to GNOME's human-interface guidelines, is there?
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Indeed, but I imagine that from the service providers perspective there is currently probably a far greater incentive to keep the logs due to their commercial value.
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With the Radeon 5000 family of GPUs AMD really did well for themselves. Nvidia didn't have an answer for that until they delivered Fermi 6 months later. And what you say about Intel's GPUs is true, they are pretty much useless for any sort of advanced 3d graphics.
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Still though, the sniffy "merely a toy" is kind of over the top. Are automobiles merely toys because they don't have the range, passenger capacity and speed of a Boeing 747? How about motor scooters? And bicycles? The Gimp is not as good as Photoshop. Is it good enough for many uses? Sure.
almost every time i use my browser, the first site i visit is hacker news. better hacker news though than something like tmz.com
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There are numerous closer targets to shoot for, which are not photoshop but are still pretty darn nice (Acorn or Pixelmator for instance on OSX).

OSX also has SeaShore, which I believe is built upon GIMP's tech but with a Cocoa frontend. It is fairly nice.
If you end up staring at a computer screen late into the night like I do, the light may be disrupting your circadian rhythms. Theres a utility called Flux (http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/) which adjusts the brightness and color of your screen depending on the time of day to make it less disruptive. I've found it to be helpful in getting me feeling sleepy earlier.
Either my expensive Kinesis keyboard and Dvorak layout are giving me an unfair advantage, or the difficulty needs tweaked.

There should be more keyboard driven web games, for a more sedate puzzle game with a similar interface try Word Swirl:

http://tromey.com/Swirl/
I think 'cloud' specifically refers to rented 3rd party computing services, not just any client-server application.
Title is annoyingly misleading. Good article, though.
Having an attitude of "It's good enough" is probably why GIMP has made such a small amount of progress in recent years.
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That's not the kind of 'good enough' I meant. It's good enough for many things, not "so good that it doesn't need improvement". Anything can be improved, and doubtless the people who work on it know that.
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When you get down to it, every sport on Earth is pretty damn weird.....
Factual correction: Jobs went to Reed, hardly a community college.
#4 – Having too many choices interferes with decision making.

I think most of us are painfully aware of this in everyday live. At least, I find it very hard to buy a new TV or stereo or phone, because I want to have the best device for my budget. Comparing all devices from all manufacturers on all interesting dimensions (size, price, power usage, brightness, CI+ support, ...) is almost impossible. The result is that I usually either buy nothing, or buy the product from Apple.
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No matter how you make a living or who you think you work for, you only work for one person, yourself.

This advice is the key to remaining motivated in a job that doesn't challenge you. The best manager I have ever worked for got me thinking from the perspective that I should treat the organisation I work for like it was my own business. Once I applied that mentality I found that I was a lot more focused and determined to have an impact on the bottom line.

I still spend half my day on HN though!
Weird. How did this spammy self-help blah-blah make it to the front-page? Must be a slow news day or simply vanity: "Hey, I am smart, I want to see what truths I forget! Vote up, cause we're all smart here."
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And the link would immediately be posted and upvoted on HN, nullifying the effort.
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It's funny how the writer mentions a handful of technically unimportant flaws with GIMP, blowing them out of proportion, but fails to mention the one big thing where GIMP falls flat on its ass: the clunky, unstructured mess of a UI.
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An interesting article on eBook design for tablet/eReaders and a nice set of templates/libraries (bibliotype: http://craigmod.com/bibliotype/) for creating books based on these guidelines.
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I actually happy to be your janitor.

Thank you for cleaning up.

(From a former "janitor" (not for hn, elsewhere), trying to get more of a life than I've had, as I get well for the first time in my life. An intellectual life is certainly better than no life at all.)
I'll concede that that is very good. And I'll also concede that I can't think of any other systems that do this as well as CPAN (if at all). But my point remains that for 99% of developers we want a library that provides functionality (e.g. an ORM for a common database) and in that respect CPAN will only have an advantage for very obscure requirements. And even then it still loses to Java.

The testing stuff is good and it's the direction everyone should be going but not having it obviously isn't too much of a problem because so few systems currently have it (CPAN was successful long before it had it as well).
Interesting article, although it doesn't mention Ruby on Rails, which I believe has a fairly successful model for solving the described issues in schema management.
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Is living in california worth over 10k a year? (assuming you have a reasonable salary)

Yes. Of course, YMMV.
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Some good insights here

But I think open source experience was vastly overlooked, hiring developers with open source experience mitigates a lot of the risk involved in hiring in a startup, you get a good gauge of their skillset, their interests, you know they are self motivated and dont need their hand held through everything

I also disagree with a 2 day unpaid exercise, 2 days is a lot of time to spend on a company who isnt even sure about me to need to do the exercise in the first place, I think this is a follow on point from above
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You might try putting your email address prominently on the site instead of burying it in your profile. I generally make it a habit of making my email address readily available on every page of any website I own. I haven't read through the comments carefully recently, but I have gotten tons and tons of spam on my blogs and no real comments but people email and talk to me about stuff I am doing and that is valuable feedback, as well as a valuable human connection.
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>For groups of more than a few hundred people (some say 50) this turns out to work better than any of the alternatives such as communism.

Citation please? Where has communism seriously been tried? Russia was trying a lot of things at the same time while simultaneously engaging in wars and dealing with their own in fighting. Communism didn't flourish in this environment, but what would? Capitalism itself depends on rule of law which was spotty at best.

>But it does cause income inequality as a necessary side effect.

Again, if you're talking about US levels of inequality I'm going to need another citation. I can't think of any developed country that isn't capitalist but I can think of a lot that don't have US levels of inequality.

>China may label itself communist but it is quite far removed from using communism as an organizing principle to create wealth.

Exactly. Granted, China does interfere in their markets a great deal (e.g. pinning their currency to the dollar artificially) but market interference isn't communism. It's a capitalist market their interfering with not a communist one.
Its not really a fixed number. On a day that I can do some coding or assignments I do not visit it for more than 30mins I think (I count reading articles listed on HN as being on HN), but when I cannot or do not want to do anything I can access HN from anywhere.
I sure could have used this info 6 months ago. Thank You!
TWM - that takes me back about 20 years!
While trying to give them an academic advantage, these parents are really stunting their personal and social development.

This rings true in my experience. I don't think my parents understood the difference between substantive (and personal) success and societal success. Actually, for me the pervasive and insistent message was that my passions do not matter and are probably wrong and bad.

Their narrow-minded formula for success (great grades, ivy league, medical school, high paying job) may work for some, but it alienates those who might find success elsewhere.

I was one of these kids. At middle age I am still dealing with the emotional scars and just starting to find my true place in the world.
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