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You forgot to change the list of self-closing tags.

I'd suggest making 'while' self closing.

How do you handle Mako defs, and namespace tags?
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Have you read the British Medical Journal article, just published, that has prompted several of these threads on HN?

http://www.bnet.com/blog/drug-business/study-that-triggered-...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/andre-picard/medi...

http://consumerist.com/2011/01/study-linking-vaccines-to-aut...
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Actually, it briefly displays a sequence of four illumination conditions - a white semicircle at the top, right, bottom, and left edges of the screen.
tokenadult is probably referring to the BMJ article at http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full , which finds that at least four of the children in Wakefield’s study were referred to him by JABS activists.
How is Apple benefiting from this deal?
There does not exist a single methodology that can always avoid local minima/maxima, short of somehow brute forcing the entire design space. (If evaluating the design space and locating the best design is somehow not an NP-hard problem, it is close enough for human purposes.) Accusing one methodology of producing local minima/maxima is therefore a noop. One must demonstrate that it is somehow more prone to such a result.

Good luck with that. I would despair of even getting the definitions correct, let alone demonstrating a result with even minimal rigor.

My intuitive feel is that if you feel like testing is getting you stuck in a local optima, this is more likely to be because your testing is actually giving enough sense of how your design fares that you can actually feel you are in a local optima, rather than the usual situation where you are just clueless, happy about it, and not even in a local optima, let alone the global one. You can't blame the equipment that allows you to detect that your are in a local optimum for getting you stuck in it; that's textbook observation bias.
The irony here is you'd lose serious performance since you're not using sendfile(2).
There is more at stake. Imagine if shazaam radio got the contract and thus 40 bucks a month lets you listen to unlim shazaam (+ their 2 dollar fee). Whereas a competitor like pandora is not in any way blocked, you just have to pay 10 bucks a month to metropcs and then a whooping 1.3 bucks a month for pandora service. Guess who will win out in the war for the user. Shazaam can suck ass compared to pandora, but other than the fanbois, there will be mostly shazaam subscribers.

Wikileaks is not even in the picture here. This is pure 1st amendment issue. A provider can provide a completely unfair advantage in the "open" market to another company over their competitors. Imagine if television networks could chose to only show republican campaign messages, and ignore all democrat ones. Its the same issue.
> People complaining about the Mac app store interface are missing the point. Think about the current install interface - DMG, dragging, etc.

@jasonfried [https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/23111721640009728]
I've been using Plex for Mac, and it's quite good. Not sure if it counts as 'lightweight', but it's fantastic. I load TV shows or movies into it (non-iTunes though).

I have it set up on my Mac Mini (connected via HDMI), and I can remote control it with the Apple Remote, but there's also an iPhone/iPad app that can both remote control (up, down, select, back), remote browse (tap on a movie or TV episode to watch it on the TV), and stream (tap on a movie to watch it on your iPhone/iPad).

It also has the nice feature of being able to automatically find any other Plex instances on the local network and automatically stream from them as if the media were local. That way, you can connect Plex to your media centre in the basement, but watch the data anywhere in the house (e.g. on a smaller TV in the bedroom or an iMac in the office).

It's really a great ecosystem, and if their partnership with LG[1] pans out, it might get that much better.

1. http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/03/plex-announces-paternship...
How Telephone Directories Transformed America
Oh definitely.

To me, it seems that everyone is striving to find an easier way to programmatically create HTML in Python. The current range of templating languages just don't cut it.

I think there's no definitive solution partially because everyone is copying Haml, and Hamls' syntax and trade-offs aren't really appropriate for Python users.
The Software Center in Ubuntu 10.10 looks great. It's nothing flashy, but it works extremely well. If I need to grab a package and I'm not sure of its name, I'll open up Software Center rather than using apt-get from the terminal.
Show HN: A debate website - MVP
Hey guys it would be wonderful if you could review my new website at idebate.me. It is a debate website and built it because this niche is quite empty and wanted place where i can thrash out topics with others. The development of the full version was stopped after reading about building a minimum viable product. This is the MVP and if people are interested in the space i would upload the remaining features.

Check it out and review it.
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I spy Adam Lisagor.. or some similarly bearded man. He worked on Square and Birdhouse's videos.

Square: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBieYjxUj5Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2_u2nMsgjg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSzsFAJAKHI
.. wow square has a lot of videos

Birdhouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8yRaWY1xV8&feature=playe...
Devs Introduce Licensing Backdoor For Twitter for Mac. Trouble Ahead?
Did you fork it on Github?

I'd love to see your code.

Right now, its' looking like a better version of SPHaml, but who can tell without seeing the gotchas'.

Like when it comes to assumptions, you'd be surprised how many times I write the word "option" as the first thing in a sentence. =)
Don't forget - most people in any sort of school - something every one in every generation has to do.
>I thought the accompanying chipset pushed the baby Atoms up to ~12w total.

This is one of Intel's own motherboards; let me dig it up...D945GCLF.

And I was wrong. The Atom itself has a TDP of 4W. The motherboard claims its total draw is 75W, with hard drive, optical, "and all board peripherals enabled". In practice, I kept it down a lot by installing (a) a laptop hard drive and (b) nothing else. I have a USB optical drive I hook up when I need it.

I should plug it into my Kill-A-Watt tonight and report back--I know I measured it before, but I didn't write down the numbers. I know the idle draw was stupidly low, like under a watt. (That's cheating a little, though, since it means unplugging the dongle for the wireless mouse&keyboard. Even when it's plugged in, it's on a USB hub, which I wasn't measuring.)
I upvoted you because you have hit on the core question: how do you stay hungry after that first x million, and how do you pass it on to the next generation?

Some family members have achieved relative wealth and I see this with their children who attend private schools ... I see nephews and nieces likely to pursue professions, but do not see the same competitive drive being passed along.
Its a 4 minute demo. If you've ever tried giving a business pitch for a new company to an investor, you usually have even less time. What they are doing is hitting the high points, i.e. Windows kernel on ARM, popular applications already running on the new kernel, and device integration (printer, phone, etc) with the kernel.

I'm not a big Microsoft fan, with the exception of Xbox and the new Kinect. However, you have to give credit where its due sometimes. I am blown away that the little motherboard he held at the beginning is so little. I've seen UMPC devices (my roommate had one) that ran Windows on a little piece of hardware, but very poorly. This so far looks much more impressive than that.

So while the demo looked fairly basic, you really have to step back and understand the hundreds of man hours that it took to get the core Windows kernel ported, plus drivers, plus applications. Building this stuff is not easy, no matter if we dislike the final products or not.
I'm not sure what the author is trying to say. Just because porn is easier to get now than before (as has been since day 0 of porn), so what? Yet another jee-whiz look at what the internets have done to us article.
" It's a karma-paid labor pool where you can post questions and a lot of under-employed people will rush out and do the necessary Google searches"

Maybe it's like that in your field, but in Mac dev questions you're fairly likely to get answers from established OS X developers, and even Apple employees.
Since the count of items is known a priori (=sizeof(S)), doesn't that mean that the mean and the sum are related in a well defined way? Basically then both critera can be simplified to a single criterion on either sum or mean.
Great video - who made it?
Steam does this, and it's great. Games have 3 buttons: watch trailer, play demo, buy game.
I had the opportunity to work with the founder (he gave me some ideas about the startup im running) and would recommend him as a very enthusiastic and talented young man. Thumbs up!

Design needs a final touch - the picture is too shadowy + cant read the letters under the order button.

ps. keep us informed about your progress
RethinkDB internals: the caching architecture
My first Firefox add-on: People Lookup
Do you have any idea what the Angry Birds developers look like? Well most of their users have no clue because promotion and the development team don’t need to be connected at all.
212 Big Bens
Adam Lisagor collaborated with the Airbnb team to make this super cool vid.
you can now use sendfile; as ry says:

"A portable sendfile [...], thanks to Marc Lehmann.

It's undocumented because it's an unstable API for now.

I wouldn't mind a contribution for a test/simple/test-sendfile.js" [1].

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Also see Using sendfile(2) with NodeJS [2].

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[1]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.nodejs/...

[2]: http://blog.std.in/2010/09/09/using-sendfile-with-nodejs/
> He answered, almost without thought, “Because that’s the only thing that will make you uncomfortable.

I think this article is well written, albeit a little extreme with some of it's points. The behavior of the man the author had anal sex with is obviously not the norm, and yet she uses the event as a way to describe the norm.
Adam Lisagor (@lonelysandwich) - http://twitter.com/#!/lonelysandwich/status/2305705896208384...
> The only reason x86 is behind right now is because ARM had been working on low power processors for years

That's kind of a big reason though.
But those that do will like you more :)
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I knew a senior manager at Intel. The company encourages you use the words 'significant competitive advantage'. Not that ugly 'M' word.
Atom was created for the netbook market, where the target for low power consumption was significantly higher than it was for smartphones and from that tablets.

How many netbooks shipped with ARM? Atom did what was necessary to win that race, even if it wasn't prepared for the subsequent very low power device explosion. The Atom chips themselves are actually remarkably efficient -- with a TDP down to 0.65W for some models, well in the ARM territory -- but Intel never bothered to make efficient supporting circuitry, while failing to full incorporate it into a SoC.

ARM is improving dramatically because it became a critical field with some low hanging advances that were possible. The pace of innovation is impressive, but it has slowed dramatically in the past year -- recall that the Tegra 2 was demoed over a year ago. Today, the high point of the ARM ecosystem is still the Tegra 2. People today are doing the sort of naive extrapolation that we've seen over and over again.
Salesforce has a hefty P/E of ~ 258. This pales in comparison. Both are absurd in my opinion.
this article mostly seems like a lot of applause lights. The author likes 'open' and wants to believe that 'open' will win. It's won once before, and so the author calls it 'inevitable'. That's not supporting an argument. The universe is still allowed to turn around and say 'so what,' and do something different.
well... the title is 'Playing With node.js'. It's just playing.
What if social networking is like instant messaging? After many years, the proprietary instant messaging services have not been replaced with an open alternative. Open does not always win.
Xenotext - Encoding poetry on the genome of a bacteria
It's launch day at Apple. We expect no peanuts!
Well, there are rumors they will be using AMD's Fusion instead of Sandy Bridge
It looks like he's saying you can use LLVM to JIT compile the C that gets generated from the Scheme code.
No no that's just a quick brain dump just to see if it could be optimized a bit further. I love simplicity and always try to simplify stuff just for the fun of it.
Great video - but man I must have trust issues; because there is no way I'd be letting someone stay in my place if I'm just out of town for the weekend.
I was going to ask what the big deal is about being a solo creator, but then I realized it's sort of like being a single-parent. There is definitely a unique set of challenges associated with both, which I think presents the opportunity for active communities in either group. Neat idea!
You can buy a Snow Leopard DVD for $30, or get downloadable dmgs if you pay for the Mac dev program. Snow Leopard works on any intel Mac.

Upgrades are easy and preserve all your stuff. No need to format or anything.

Of course you can buy a new Mac too.
I suppose. It goes well with the spaceship operator <=>.
It passed the "my parents understood it test":) Great vid!
i would've thought your algebra from HS would've counted for that requirement? hrmmm!
So i wouldn't be so sure about intel's bright future.

I'm not invested in Intel. I wouldn't invest in Intel. I don't know where the market will go. However I'm not so knee-jerkish to instantly discount them.

It is truly remarkable how many prophetic statements of absolute truth we've seen over the year based upon temporary states in the industry.

6.ARM biggest advantage is it's open business model , that leads to a very large cooperative ecosystem both at the hardware and software levels.

Intel used to be one of those businesses. Again, way back in the late 80s ARM and other RISC architectures were seen as, without fail, the imminent successors of the universe. Intel got heavily involved. It didn't pan out, so Intel dumped it.
Their customer service is also great.
I dunno, it squares with my experience, at least until you reach a specialist.

Admittedly this is anecdotal evidence, but ...

I have diagnosed several medical issues with myself and my wife by web research, only to have to pay to go to a family doctor, who hems and haws, then gives a referral to a specialist, who agrees with what I have already stated.

Specialists in my area will not take you in without a referral from the family doctor, so basically the family doctor is collecting a fee for being a gatekeeper, since he/she adds zero value.

Something similar occurred many years ago with an eye problem I had (tear in retinal wall) - the regular eye doctor had me coming back week after week, collecting his fee each time, until I specifically asked for a referral.

The specialist saw in 3 minutes, the tear that the doctor had missed from the beginning and on each subsequent visit - the reason - the specialist had me recline to flat on my back and used a very powerful magnifying glass, while the hack ^H^H^H^H regular doctor did not.

The symptoms (large eye blockage in one eye due to large black cloudy thing that appeared one morning) clearly pointed to only this cause.
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That's why they have the ebay-like "review" system. It works pretty well for the couch surfing websites, so I am sure it works well here too.

(but yes, I agree with you - I don't know how keen I'd be to leave someone the keys to my place while I'm out either)
Rhino does JS -> Java bytecode internally but I don't think you can grab those classes and execute them outside Rhino.

A full compiler would of course always have the problem of dynamically generated JS, i.e eval().
Or what about using built-in motion sensors to record the relative camera location and orientation of a series of frames captured with an e.g. iPhone camera? I don't know exactly how the accelerometers and gyros work, or what sort of data they provide (linear distance vs just orientation changes?), but imagine holding down a "scan" button as you simply swing the phone around a subject to capture a series of images. I would think it would be possible to reconstruct 3d surfaces (at least under suitable illumination conditions, I guess) given known camera location/orientation for each frame. Pushbroom stereo, in remote sensing parlance...
The article talks a lot about how male sexuality has a darker side and violence and coercion come in to play and perhaps is exemplified by porn. One of the examples she uses is the scene from Last Tango in Paris where Marlon Brando forces Maria Schneider's character to have anal sex... It gets a little meta when you look up that film on Wikipedia:

"I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn't know that. Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologise. Thankfully, there was just one take."
Wow, there's been a VRML sighting! As an old dude, VRML reminds me of the worst of 90s web hype. Trying to leave that aside, I also don't think it has a lot going for it to keep it around as a format.

I prefer the even simpler Wavefront OBJ format as a scratch format. It's about as printf-compatible as it gets and is supported in many more places than VRML.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file
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One of the most compelling things about AirBnB is the gorgeous photos of all those unique places. I don't know how they get them. Do they just have lots of hosts with amazing photography skills or do they send people out to take pictures?
Clicky: http://idebate.me

I clicked on one of the debates, to see how it was... but got prompted to sign in. Can I not just, look at it? What if the argument was so good, that I just had to reply?

Also, the place is horribly bare... that will turn a lot of people off.
It's inevitable, because those of us who are working on it aren't going to give up, amongst other reasons.

Further, the ability to have niche/community/localized, etc. social networking sites that inter-operate is an achilles heel to the one-site-fits-all approach of Facebook.

Once a set of social networking sites come out that inter-operate, and people see how it's done, then Facebook, Myspace, etc. will all feel very antiquated and walled off. Imagine when people started trading email addresses, and the AOL people had to say "no, I can't email, but my aol screen name is..."
Skype 5.1 for Windows: Gold Group video calling and stability improvements
Autotesting With Doom-Guy - Don't Let Him Die, Please
I must admit to being somewhat taken aback by the "males are aggressively, dangerously sexual" undertone. Is this a common (female) attitude?

Are you thinking there is no aggression whatsoever in your sex life? Aggression and power are complex things. The way they play out can be quite subtle. Many things men consider to be "human" or "neutral" are in fact norms that exist to reinforce male hegemony. And those things play out in the bedroom.
I thought this book was great, but I also found it quite disturbing. Some pretty bad stuff happens in it.
Beautiful video.

I might be moving to London for a few months, and the "stay for a month" line certainly persuaded me to take a look when I do.
Ugh. Slightly interesting for the first third, then a random swerve into misandrist bullshit.
The only problem is, I am not aware of an actual Hello Kitty smartphone; otherwise my wife would have asked me to buy it for her. Perhaps this is a regular phone with a plastic skin or a themed download?
Skype is free, Qik is free. With this, the technology (in theory) should get better. How do I lose out exactly? (Honest question. I'm not trying to troll or be snarky)
DriveThru's take on "app pricing" RPGs
BitTorrent Inc. To Launch All-In-One BitTorrent Ecosystem
they demoed drivers
Give it time. At some point in the not so distant future, we could all be using smartphones that just have data plans. Then we'll get to see if SMS sticks around.
I don't like the analogy. AOL wanted to be the gatekeeper to the Internet and charge users a fee for their "premium" content. They were replaced because the internet is infrastructure, and a million other entities created sites and services that were better than what AOL was trying to charge for.

Facebook on the other hand, embraces the open web, and sinks it's hooks in via extremely elegant and lightweight hooks like Login with Facebook and FBJS that have impeccable usability and deliver measurable value to site owners. They are not fighting against current trends, rather they are defining and riding them.

Facebook will not be in trouble until their business model starts to collide with user interests. Privacy concerns are a potential problem for them, but don't fool yourselves that even a sizable minority of users care about that yet.
She described his behavior, asking to make her uncomfortable, as uncommonly honest, so she agrees with you it's not the norm. I think her point is that the underlying desire is the norm, while the open and respectful request for consent as not.
I believe this is how space shuttles explode: reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...
Why should startups blog?
If I wanted ugly or dumb I'd use Windows. I don't. Don't turn my Mac into Windows or you reduce the relative attraction.
>the Internet porn aesthetic verges on unvarnished realism.

I'm thinking she doesn't know much about Internet porn.
Yeah, Min-Liang Tan seems like he's doing a parody of Ive to me.
The failures of the Mac App Store's UI and Twitter's New App
I presume that subtitles in pieces like this aren't usually written by the author, so I'm not to worried if they actually agree with the sentiment of the piece.

For the "males are dangerously sexual" undertone, I think this is true but intended as historical background. My ultra-summary from an American perspective would be something like:

1960's: Males are dangerous and women must defend their honor. Betty Friedan writes about trapped women.

1970's: Males still dangerous, but women can take control of this. Feminism on the rise: Our Bodies Our Selves.

1980's: Women and males be equally dangerous, equally pro-sex. Aids causes concern all around. Anti-porn.

1990's: Feminist backlash. OK to be an effeminate metrosexual. Read Katie Roiphe and Bitch Magazine. Move toward pro-porn.

2000's: Decade is over, and now the history is being written by people like Natasha Vargas-Cooper. Porn is passe.
Yes, but what makes it interesting to be here? Question fired at upvoters as well. Telling me that Node.js is incapable of serving filesystem-based PNGs would be news! If this is the bar for 9 votes (as of this writing) there's 8 people who need to be cruising the "New" page more often, there's a lot of stuff getting lost above this bar.

Just to be clear, in my opinion you've done nothing wrong by writing or posting this on the internet. It's just weird that it's here.