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Re:working in F1, it's all Brits, save a couple of teams. Basically, other than Ferrari and Sauber, no-one has managed a success outside of England. Of course, once you get there, it's not all brits, but you probably need to be local to pursue this.

blogs of use:

Craig Scarborough: https://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/
Joe Saward:https://joesaward.wordpress.com/

and this is a very handy reference: http://www.whoworksin.com/index-en.php

presume you've heard of Racecar Engineering magazine, and are a fan, but refs above aren't always known to everyone.

throwaway acct., hope this message doesn't vaporize.

Good luck!
I think you need to look at outcomes over 5-10 years, not a couple of months. As far as I can tell, radical diets pretty much always work over the short term. I'd speculate this is some combination of: you're not actually replacing all the calories you removed, and your body needing some time to adjust to the right mix and quantities of enzymes to fully metabolize your new diet.

(Also, I'm fairly skeptical that you're really losing 10 pounds of fat, or anything other than water, per month.)
"Seeing multiple Adsense units on these obviously SEO-fueled pages I've linked to leads me to believe there's at least a little bit of truth to what you quoted me saying."

Speaking as someone who has worked at Google for ~11 years at Google and worked on spam at Google for ~10 years, I can tell you that running AdSense doesn't get you any kind of special consideration in Google's rankings. You don't have to believe me, but it's true. :)

By the way, I talked a bit about content farms and Google's take on them in November at a search conference. Here's a link that blogged about it a bit: http://blog.search-mojo.com/2010/11/10/live-from-pubcon-vega... . That person wrote up the discussion as "Question: What is Google doing to detect content farms?

Matt: Google historically has tried to do most everything algorithmically. blekko does allow you to identify content farms, but blekko is more human based response. Google is having an active debate about this. If you can’t algorithmically identify a content farm, is it still ok to take action and remove a site?"

The other relevant write-up was at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/023229.html and they transcribed the discussion as
"5:22
Barry Schwartz: Q: Brian asked, what is google doing in terms of content farms?
5:22
Barry Schwartz: A: Matt fed this Q to Brian earlier ... hehhehe
5:24
Barry Schwartz: Tricky, Matt's team is in charge of web spam. If web spam doesn't last long in the index, what do they do? So a content farm is the bare min someone can do to get in to the index, but its borderline
5:24
Barry Schwartz: Some people in Google dont consider content farms as web spam
5:24
Barry Schwartz: They have been a little worried about people passing judgement on sites if it is a content farm a useful site.
5:24
Barry Schwartz: Think of Mahalo, Wikia, Blekko
5:24
Barry Schwartz: Those sites provide a curated experience
5:25
Barry Schwartz: It is a really interesting tension here, they don't want to bring Humans into the mix... They will let computers do it
5:25
Barry Schwartz: This is an active debate
5:25
Barry Schwartz: May Day, at least partially, was a first pass at this.
5:25
Barry Schwartz: If you can't algorithmically detect content farms, then do you take manual action?
5:25
Barry Schwartz: This is the problem they are thinking
5:26
Barry Schwartz: So if they do anything on this, they will update their guidelines
5:26
Barry Schwartz: This is an active debate in Google and we will see where we go
5:26
Barry Schwartz: Someone asked, Matt, what side are you on?
5:26
Brian Ussery (@beussery):
Matt says users are angry with content farms
5:26
Barry Schwartz: Matt said, users are not happy with content farms so he wants them out of the index."
Yes, the book is great as well, it's written in a very friendly tone.

These lectures were recorded long ago (1999), recent lectures (on calculus and another course) by Strang have higher video quality.

I have experienced mono audio on some too, you might be able to fix it with your video player though. ( If you are watching on iPhone/iPad, there is a mono setting in settings-accessibility btw.)

Check out http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/ for the other lectures by Strang. Also in this paper: "too much calculus"
http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/papers/essay.pdf he discusses why linear algebra should be emphasized more (and calculus less) in the digital age.
Very balanced writeup. The only thing I disagree with is the quality of some of the apps... although I do agree they're not as good as some of the iOS 1-3 person shop apps, I think the big difference is that most of the small shop iOS apps are small companies, whereas WP7 is still in the early Android-phase where it is hobbyst working in the evening.

But the quality of paid apps, which are almost all games, is on par with the iOS top paid apps already.
I wish they had some new "detroit in ruins" photos. Most of these have been floating around the Internet for the past 6+ months.
http://publicdomainday.org/node/37/

http://www.publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011

Edit: Oops, meant that to be a comment to mrleinad
This is a good idea to try, but November and December are weird months and it might not be reasonable in your space to assume they are comparable. I work in comparison shopping where it's really not true. You mentioned A/B testing, and I think you should try this again as an A/B test so that you can eliminate seasonality.
I noticed that you changed your colors to a lighter color.

From what I see, many logos can be modernized so easily by switching to "pastel colors", or colors with more white in them. These are duller, but in my opinion, much more modern.
Unfortunately, because of discontinous extensions, no published works are entering the US public domain again until 2019:

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday

Of course, whether any actually enter the public domain then depends on Congress not retroactively extending copyright terms again. Perhaps Congress will choose a term of 'heat death of the universe, plus one day' — which the courts could still uphold as technically 'limited' per the Constitution.
RubyGems only allows the installation of binary files to bin. Lots of binary files should go into sbin. This is a serious limitation with packaging.
Everyone's "creative" in the lazy sense of "having ideas". Everyone has an armful of ideas. Talk to people, and you can hear them.

I have literal piled notebooks full of ideas (at least, before I switched to text editors). The ones I haven't yet done anything with? They don't matter, because nothing has been created.

The people who actually manage more than going on about how they're "creative" are the people who pursue craft and accomplish their ideas, and that requires dedication and effort.

This conflicts with the mythology of creation as some airy, quasi-magical activity that only Special People do, but it's one of those hard truths: things you want take work.

And no, persistence is not "more attainable by everyone". It's not about plugging away mindlessly, it's about passion and dedication and improvement. These are hard things!
That's always fantastic. I had a friend once who did the same thing with the original iPhone (except it ran out of stock, it wasn't banned). He made thousands and thousands of dollars, I was so jealous.
Just for fun:

"It's difficult to describe my mindset about this, and being a ruthless, very self-critical perfectionist probably helps tremendously. I always joke that it's my mission in life to prove everyone else wrong."

Ha ha, isn't that a Managerial Qualification??!!

sounds more C-Suite or race team director than programmer to me :)

I don't mean that ironically, though i play for a laugh.

go for it
A professor of mine once gave a pretty compelling argument for why we are still a long way from using pictures in ATM security.

Imagine you have an ATM account, you fall down and cut your face, maybe break your nose.

Now you need to withdraw money for some reason. You are locked out. Now lets also say that you know someone high up that made the decision to buy these ATM machines. You tell them that you are locked out, and he's going to start wondering why he put these new machines in place.

We'll probably get there eventually, but I think we are far from that point right now.
He's at very little risk of being in a food desert on the north side. No, wait, he's at zero risk of being in a food desert on the north side.

I don't get the Dunkin' thing at all, though. There's a guy in my office that prefers it to Intelligentsia. Psycho.
Just curious, what is your reasoning behind requiring a username and an email? I've been experimenting lately with super minimal signups and the two seem more and more redundant for most web apps, but I want to hear your thoughts (and maybe it's a potential optimization point?).
I'm pleasantly surprised to see a good percentage of your free users upgrading to the paid version. Why don't you test a time-bound free trial before switching back to freemium?
This is why web startups are mostly done by single 20 somethings. They're mostly lottery tickets and most fail. I suggest you only work on projects that make money right away and leave the twitter type ideas for the young bachelors. Wives are far more tolerant when you're making money. Best of luck!
This is a great case study for other school administrators looking to propose a similar setup. iPad's are less than a year old and they are already transforming many classrooms.
The current copyright law is a prime example of the impotence of the electorate in the face of the power of Big Money. It is in the public interest to have works move into the public domain, so that others can build upon them (I'll refrain from linking to the myriad talks by Lessig and others about how the current copyright system is broken).

And yet Hollywood keeps buying the legislators and perpetuates this broken system.
That's what Rubyists do.

See the rest of the thread for the ... complaints that are raised.
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The statement "Ruby's real users" is telling. Ruby's real users include everyone downstream using Ruby applications: web apps, gems, tools, stand-alone apps. Some compromise needs to be made to suit all parties. Thus far it seems to me that the Debian world has been trying to make it work whilst a lot of Rubyists throw rocks from the sidelines. YMMV.
In addition to the (currently down) http://www.publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011 link provided by 2mur this blog entry also talks about what entered the public domain this year: http://blog.okfn.org/2010/10/18/which-works-enter-the-public...

Also, my interpretation of the original post is that it's not a mere lamentation but also a reminder to question the current state of copyright and public domain legislation. Who benefits? Who loses? To what degree? And why? And it does so with concrete examples.
Thanks Jason! Excellent concept. Is there any way that I or others can help?
Kind of: http://twitter.com/search?q=node.js%20OR%20from:reddit%20OR%...

This searches all posts that contain "node.js", are from reddit, or are from hackernewsbot. You can even get an RSS feed for it, at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=node.js%20OR%20from:reddi...
Really? I don't think so. Some of the coolest ideas I've ever had have come during discussions with friends. I'm most productive when I'm alone, but rarely do I have creative ideas by myself.
It was a part of the restful authentication plugin I originally used to set it up [1] :)

For this app its necessary because I allow users to share the timelines they create and I display their user names on the shared timelines. Your train of thought is good though.

[1] https://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication
Does it smell if any living thing cannot survive smelling it?
Maybe because just about everyone knows how to do it, and because it's quieter than tapping on a screen or keyboard?

That's not to say it's the optimal method of input, but either is voice. There are use cases where writing or voice may be better than typing.
"Bunder: as simple as you did before" : http://yehudakatz.com/2010/09/30/bundler-as-simple-as-what-y...
Yes, this is clearly what the Debian people think. But you aren't engaging with the argument, you're just hissing at it.

Again: I didn't just say "Ruby's real users are people who think like I do". I said "Ruby is used by significantly more developers than by end-users and should be optimized for its most important use case". You can disagree with that, but the onus is on your to support your argument with evidence.

Instead, you've attempted to personalize the argument. Try again.
How is a podcast a startup?

When everything is a <thing>, then nothing is a <thing>.
Thanks I'll be adding it to Github later today as soon as the code is in presentable form ;)
If the author of the package is fine with the binaries going into bin, why do you care?
Wow, fast, excellent work Jason.

Clickable - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jiicbcimbjppjbck...
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The Kinesis contour keyboard moves the modifier keys to under your thumbs. Makes a huge difference for Emacs. It makes for a significant amount of retraining, though, too, and vim might still be for you.
Yea public facing stuff seems like the only time it's really needed. One way is maybe to defer that until they actually share something and then have to pick. I sometimes take their username from the email (before the '@') and use that if necessary but it's not a great solution.

Good luck!
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There is a compelling natural rights justification for intellectual property. It typically gets ignored (e.g. by people like Lessig).

Basically: The product of a human being's work is rightfully his property; that's part and parcel of living in a civilized society. Doesn't matter if that work is entirely "intellectual" or not. The fact that it's physically easy to steal intellectual property does not make it right.

People who make arguments about natural rights typically also think that if people's natural rights are not respected, that is going to ultimately be a net loss for society. I agree with that in the case of intellectual property. If people's intellectual property rights are not respected, it will not be profitable to develop intellectual property.

Although we shouldn't shun abstractions, it's also important not to shun concretes. In this case: you claim that it's important for the public good to move works into the public domain. Well, how is it good for the public to move Horton Hears a Who or Sports Illustrated into the public domain? Much less Waiting for Godot.
Did the Newton?

:-)
What do you think you have shown? Did you make sure to maintain the same caloric intake when you gave up carbs? You lost 30lbs so how do you know that your lower cholesterol was due to no carbs and not simply weight loss?

Most people on low-carb diets end up eating less calories, thus weight loss occurs (pretty basic, but it doesn't sell pop science books very well). I agree that no-carb is a viable strategy to cutting calories in a not have to calorie count way [1], but I'm willing to bet if you simply cut your calories and kept the same macro (P/C/F) percentages as before your diet you would have lost the same amount of weight.

[1] Going no-carb cuts out LOTS of the typical snack food that people eat and don't realize all the extra calories they are picking up.
While writing might be a nice additional feature, I can certainly understand why Apple didn’t build iOS around it. (In the current climate this probably also means that handwriting won’t come to iOS anytime soon.)
Or as it was cleverly put before the author: "Primary rays cache; secondary rays thrash"

Some interesting things to note, at least from my point of view:

* GPUs should not be considered like the next generation CPUs at this stage.

* Trying to take advantage of CUDA/OpenCL not only requires redesigning your algorithm and altering your data structures, but also the folly of implementing in software what is already available in hardware.

* Thread shared memory on nVidia cards isn't exactly similar to a cache. There's also a lot of papers in the last two years that speak of nothing else but altering algorithms to make better use of CUDA, because for anything else but the simplest of raytracers on a few objects, the situation gets really bad.

Very nice post, though. Neatly organized and well written, I really enjoyed it.
Good work.

Stackoverflowerizer does a similar job by redirecting to the original content when user clicks on a similar website link.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gledhololmniapej...
Copyright law is really disappointing here. How do such long terms contribute to the progress of sciences or the arts? The writers and main contributors to most of the pieces named are dead. The publishers have made their cash time and time again and now most of these pieces are by no means "hot sellers", though they may be of cultural or historical interest. And, there's 40 years left before the copyright expires.

All this does is allow two extra generations to leech off of the creativity of their fathers without actually contributing anything themselves. Same goes for the two subsequent generations that fill the publishing houses that originally print these works.

Do we really believe that Lord of the Rings or Lord of the Flies would not have been written or published if the copyright term was only 28 years (in fact, they _were_ published when the copyright term was 28 years)? It should be evident that cultural experiences will be generated even if the money doesn't flow down for 100-200 years (not that there won't be money anyway -- they'll just have to do something useful with the property, just like anyone else).

The whole thing is just patently ridiculous. What do we gain by refusing to allow free commentary or contribution on Lord of the Rings? Tolkien is dead and gone and made a comfortable existence on his work I'm sure. If he was concerned with ensuring his posterity and publisher would have money from his work, he could have taken various measures to do so, like divesting large amounts of money to them in his will.

It is ridiculous that all of society and culture has to suffer because of corporate lobbyists that don't want Disney et al to lose money. It's not like the publishers are being robbed here, they've made more than enough money on these properties and now it's time to share. Intellectual property was never meant to trap ideas -- it was meant to make their sharing plausible and reasonable (before the internet, there was significant overhead involved with publication and wide dissemination of such material). Now we just have leeches looking to ensure their own fat paycheck at the expense of free culture.

I would be very happy to see a copyright law of 28 years since publication or less with no extensions, applied retroactively to all works under copyright in the United States. I don't see why life of the author should be considered -- if someone writes a good story, that's great, but 28 years of unlimited monopoly on that is quite enough. And note that public domain doesn't mean the copyright holder can't make money anymore -- it just means he has to provide something that the market deems valuable, instead of standing as a gatekeeper and profiting off of everyone else's imagination.
I am sad about this. The cost of costing things necessarily introduces some tiny sliver of irrationality into any market. That is, putting a price on something takes time and resources, but time and resources are finite, therefore no market can hope for infinitely rational prices. If these price changes chase away some of the smarter traders from InTrade, then trading becomes slightly less rational (or rather, the prices do). And yet, everything must have a cost, and so there is no way to wholly avoid this problem. All the same, InTrade interests me. I've haven't traded there yet, but I plan to jump in this year, unless the other prediction markets take off.
The body is constantly fighting you to maintain current weight. That's why you get really hungry after a hard workout or want to go to sleep after severely cutting your caloric intake. Your body will respond.

You're giving exercise way too much credit.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.ht...
Great idea -- I'll consider it and may give a try in the future.
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So far, HN seems relatively un-politicied. Can we keep it that way?
Great initiative. Having a "Add domain to blacklist" option on right click would be a nice addition.

I seriously wish this matures well like Adblock Plus. Imagine having a crowd sourced blacklist of domains and users can easily add it to the extension. (similar to easy filter based on geographic locations for adblock)
Good points there. In my country (Uganda), we often have power outages, and during those periods i get to leave my computer alone (most of the other times am coding or reading something).

Surprisingly, at first i used to feel depressed during such times, but after a while i realized those were good times to sit down or move about and think with pen and paper about some cool ideas.

A lot of my personal projects (I write prose and poetry, and do hobbyist software projects) have been sparked off by reflections or non-tech explorations done away from the computer. Surely, i recommend that every one ought to take some time off tech, especially those whose survival depends on creativity and tech - like developers.

I long quit from Facebook, don't use any social-nets, depending mostly on good old forums, irc and real-time meet-ups. Too much dependence on tech can probably dwarf the intellect in my opinion, nature is still a good source of pure advancement.
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Ask HN: What does karma signify?
I just wrote a short comment[1] that took a minute to post, while earlier I had written a long analysis[2] that had required some thought. In my opinion, the first one won me more karma than I deserved and the second one did receive not any attention as I would have liked (not necessarily karma, but rather comments). The big difference is that one was a random comment that contributed hardly anything important to the discussion, while the other contributed to the original post (even if people disagreed with me). Shouldn't people prefer relevance and new ideas over irrelevance and no new ideas? Karma should signify that that the comment contributed to the discussion, or offered a new and still relevant, thought-provking conversation.

This is obviously just my opinion, so I'm interested in what your opinions are on the topic.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060920

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060542
But how is that argument extended that your natural right over your work should be extended for 70 years after you die? Why should that period keep getting longer?