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I'm a big lover of FOSS but I'm not sure really. There is a wide variety of needs but I wonder how many plugins the average Wordpress user really uses. Presumably they're not imagining they'll take the entire market just a segment, perhaps the click-to-edit|edit-in-place part?
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You would think it works the way it is written but there have been a few instances of flights being diverted even though they would never fly through US airspace. And don't even think about flying to Canada, they are in lockstep with the US as far as the no fly list is concerned.

For example, last year a flight from London to Mexico City was turned back because a US citizen on the no fly list was onboard. Plane landed back in London, the passenger was asked to leave, no argument, and the flight resumed eight hours later. No one has been able to find out who he was and what happened to him; arrested, cleared immigration, deported (where?).
This is not a 2+2 question.

If someone asks you "how do I dispose of a dead body without the cops knowing about it?" The correct answer is not the simplistic direct answer to that question. Sometimes the correct answer is "why are you doing that? don't do that!"
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Pray tell which compiler you are using that won't throw a warning on variable assignment in a condition?
If something bad happens to you that you can't forget or forgive go to chats and tell your story to anonymous people over and over as many times as necessary until you get eventually bored with it. It may take a year or more.

You will be then less likely to tell it to yourself again in your head.
I think that this is a record for a car using silicon based solar cells.
The car came first in the silicon section of the 2009 world solar challenge, and fourth overall.
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do let me know what you think.
I really appreciate the feedback. This is what drove at least 80% of the development time. We spent more time fixing issues and adding certain features that beta testers reported & requested than developing the gist of the application. (i.e. we thought we were done but actually were far from it - this was the obstacle I was talking about).

By the way, you can delete bars by tapping the gear icon and then tapping a measure to open a popover.

We will make a better PDF export system and advanced lyrics and chord notation support.

Again, many thanks.
No its not too late far from it.

I finished grad school in 2010 (I'm 23 y/o) and most of my classmates were 25-38 range. Grad school really is alot better for mature students far far better. I felt I learnt alot more not from the subject matter/university but from the peers I was around who were all very mature even at my age.
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Đó đều là những cuốn sách kinh tế - kinh doanh nổi bật của thế giới đã được dịch và xuất bản ở Việt Nam trong năm 2010 mà các nhà đầu tư, hay thậm chí những người bình thường quan tâm tới
Take more risks - approach more females I like like a machine/date more, invest and build a portfolio from scratch, play poker

Communication - take up toastmasters, possibly stand up comedy and work really hard at telling stories in a compelling and interesting manner

Finance - learn the industry back to front inside out and do as much as possible to build as much skill as possible in the areas of M&A/Investing

Network - meet as many high profile people across London as possible. Have already met two CEOs and an ex-govt minister in the space of a week with more events/introductions lined up.
Or they could use their approval process to figure out that the licence was incompatible with their ToS.
Where is the option "I don't trust them with anything, but use them anyway because there are no better alternatives" :)
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Isn't it true that an american citizen can not be banned from entering his country and isn't that a constitutional law? I'm not from US, but I remember a small media mess around a case, when TSA didn't want to let an american citizen out of the airport (was mentioned on HN).
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Here is a recent thread about index funds

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949158

tl;dr Before IPO Google made several seminars so it's employees can get investment advice on how to invest their future millions. The advice was to invest in index funds.
Facebook has an entire section for law enforcement to collect data they want quickly and easily. That's why you don't hear any complaints like you did about MySpace.

You can guess what this probably means.
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When you phrase it that vaguely, you can make anything sound like anything else. Oh, you're into carbon-based lifeforms? I know an amoeba you'll get along with well.
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I overlooked the 6 minute thing as well :((((((
The GPL is not about freedom for users, it's about freedom for source code.
I agree with this.

In a gross oversimplification: Aesthetic = right brain = non-thinking = goodbye monkey mind.
To summarize that article, The University of Michigan Solar Car Team reached 105 mph at Ford's Proving Ground in 2010.

It looks like they never officially called Guinness, so that's why their record isn't in the books.

(I used to be the project manager of the team back in the late 90's... you can see our car at Boston's Museum of Science.) :)
Why would we trust the government to secure our identities online?
Does the government have any kind of interest to manipulate this system from the inside to respond to its needs?
The federal intelligence community for one would be very interested by creating fake identities for its operatives thus creating a potential security hole for others to exploit.
On the US money is written, 'In God we trust' but NOT 'In the Government we trust'.
That really depend on what kind of member sites we are talking about no?
yes, but you don't need a missile to build a dam :)

sure, it will be less expensive to kill a lot of people with this. those are not cost savings I had in mind.
I used to not care, but now I don't trust them at all. I can't wait for liberation. In fact, let me remember to make it real!
Maybe for our generation it is, but I can confidently say that this has changed amongst high school students and other youngsters. For them (at least the ones I have contact with), facebook is a tool for meeting new people. Hell, even a few people I know professionally has met their SO on facebook.
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Depends on what you're actually cutting yourself off from. Wondering about ideas is creativity, but wondering about facts is merely ignorance.
Are they using fake SSL certificates or do we have to wait for another year before a government launches a major attack like that?
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I'd rather if the compiler simply determined whether or not it was used as an assignment or comparison and just go with a single =.
> Depending on your browser, the link to download your input file may be a little finnicky.

That wasn't a problem in 1990. Web dev has gone horribly wrong, when almost nobody is doing progressive enhancement over a simple version that always works, and most of the effort is being invested in a shift to techniques that are less and less reliable.
Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging
Did this during the holidays and just finished with few extra features:

http://thingsand.me/

And an example blog:
http://thingsand.me/jori

I tried to keep the platform as simple as possible and focus on the images instead of making yet another blogging platform. Time will tell for what people are going to use it. I hope to add API soon (iPhone uploader would be awesome to blog daily activities).
Even if they were willing to change their ToS as soon as possible, that would probably take a good few weeks of back and forth with their legal department. But a notification of breach of licence probably comes with an "immediate action required" stick, so the only thing they could do immediately would be to remove the app from the store.
Facebook cookies are not marked SSL only. That would be a temporary and unreliable fix.
Well, ironic in the sense that the GPL is supposed to keep software free (libre), but in this case, it really restricts the end user by not allowing them even to load the app. You have to wonder who was being hurt by having GPL software on the App Store - if you're an actual iPhone developer, then you can most certainly download the source provided by Applidium under the GPL, and build your own copy of the software. If you're a dev that works on other platforms that uses the same GPL code, you can still download the code and use it. If you're not a dev, then you couldn't care less about access to the code or not, because as a non-dev, you can't use it. So just who's rights were being trampled on by the code being on the App Store?

Remi's stance is not principled. Everyone that would want to have access to the source had access to the source. He has done this because of some idealogical dislike that he apparently has of the Apple ecosystem. Fine, it's within his rights, but he doesn't get to claim that he was the principled one in this incident, quite the contrary.
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The only time I used enterprise software was during some SAP sessions in Uni. I honestly did not know what I was supposed to do and what I was doing. I remember our tutors being so frustrated at the whole process they ended up telling us click by click what we had to do to complete the tasks. So I'd say the biggest problem is poor usability as a result of excessive complexity.

If I may ask, what particular problem are you trying to solve?
The two big differences, IIRC, were that XML-RPC didn't support authentication or any kind of structured types while SOAP did. Those were things that people at the time thought they needed.
Do you trust the politicians that you rely on to run your country?
To me it's more apathy than trust, which is weird because with every other site online I'm filled with paranoia.
The only body hack I want is infinite will power for all practical purposes. Everything else is just a footnote.
I can't agree more. One of the most annoying things I gripe about my quite-recent TV is that when I turn it on it says "please wait". No, it's a TV and it needs to be on virtually instantly. It's not like it has electronics that need to "warm up". It's just a slow software + hardware combination.

This is not to mention that some TVs I've seen are slow to respond to user commands because of slow software. Next time you press the remote to change the channel, think about the delay between your press and the TV registering the request, let alone changing the channel.

Let's not forget that computers take a while to boot up too. However, at least the industry understands that turning on machines should not take long and they're trying to shorten it. Ubuntu and Apple come to mind. Even Microsoft has made noises about this, and some CES 2011 gadgets I've read about mention it too.
I will be in Delhi from Mid March for a 3-4 months and would love to meet as many techy people as possible, particularly those interested in NLP and related fields.
Now, all they need to do is make the horizontal plane wider, add rudder and ailerons and propeller and they are good to fly (without wasting all that energy to overcome roll friction)!
I'll be in town from 11th till 14th Jan, it'd be good to meet you all if there's going to be a meetup.
When companies must have patents to defend themselves against patent trolls, the only possible winners are lawyers.

Software patents are completely wrong. As a side note, pg said that if software patents are wrong, then all patents are wrong. BTW I'm confident that most of current IP environment (both patents and copyright) hurts people and the economy.
It definitely depends on what your product is. Some customers will not be very forgiving while others will be relentless champions for you.

Our approach has been somewhat unique. Our MVP is mostly a throw-away version we got out into the world as fast as possible to test the idea. As such, we didn't do much testing. We excluded most of the back-end stuff we'd like to have but was not absolutely essential for basic operations (mainly automation of some tasks). This worked because we can do most of the required tasks for a small number of customers by hand in the mean time. This has been very successful and has been helpful on a number of levels -- we know our core customers quite well, they get personalized service and seem to be very loyal, and we were able to launch much earlier. The idea was to avoid spending a lot of time in development/testing in case things didn't go well.

Now that we know there is a place in the world for our product we can build a 2.0 version with everything we want/need in it. Plus, given our experience in the field and with the customers, we have a much better idea of what exactly our software will need to handle. Rather than mod our product to fit the requirements, we'll just build a new one and migrate the existing data. In the mean time we have some grass roots growth and customers who give us constant feedback.

I would note that if you are seriously looking at the possibility of growing very quickly then you probably don't want to use a throw-away MVP. If we got hit hard right now we would be in a tough spot for a few weeks (maybe more). Since our niche is rather small we felt a bit more comfortable taking on this risk.
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According to the FSF, it is about freedom for users.

"Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it means that the program's users have the four essential freedoms:

* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
* The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this."
You'll also probably be able to get it from other sources if you're jailbroken.
All of which would induce so much drag making take of impossible. I have no sense of humor.
Freedoms which releasing any GPL'd code under the old App stores terms would have been negated.
It's likely that many commenters on sites like Gizmodo or Huff Post read the summary and skimmed the note, and left a "generic suicide consolation". That's my guess anyway.

That has little to do with the religiosity of those people, I think, it mainly just has to do with a group of people that has very little prudence about speech in general. You shouldn't set your standards too high for the unwashed; Hacker News is anathema to people that don't read, as just about everything here is wall-of-text; no funny cat pictures or YouTube memes to attract the less attentive crowd, and generally no stupid political nit-picking, or anything non-business or non-compsci.

Huffington Post is a content farm, essentially, and is filled with lots of distractions. It is also a home base for ideologues, with its founders and editors frequently appearing on talk shows and injecting themselves into political commentary. Much of its readership happens to be religious or Christian, just as most people you meet in the West will happen to be religious and/or Christian. Perhaps we should consider that though many of these people are leaving religiously-oriented comments, the propriety of their writing is not necessarily correlated with their religiosity so much as its correlated with other factors.
It may claim to be ACID compliant, however:

If I have a varchar(2) and I insert 3 characters in that field - I should expect that to error, not warning and silently truncate (which isn't picked up if you are doing inserts on the application level). I know there are options to turn it into an error - but, that is not the default.

Also, if i screw up a create table, inside a transaction .. i expect that create table to roll back too.

Both things which postgres does perfectly. Not to mention, plpgsql is way easier to write with less stress than whatever horrible extensions to SQL that MySQL has for procs and triggers.
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I wonder if there are any HN readers from Yerevan, Armenia. Would be happy to meet some.
I agree.

The author's main points seem to be that:
1. Facebook has similarities to AOL, and AOL's bubble burst
2. There was a bubble in the late '90s therefore there must be a bubble now
3. Goldman is investing in Facebook, Goldman invested in other bubbles, therefore the investment must be bad
4. Social is a fad

Nothing on why Facebook specifically is doing a bad job and why someone else is positioned to upset them. Not much evidence at all if you ask me. You could write the article with 90% of the content the same and replace "Facebook" with "Google" or "Apple" or "Microsoft"
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We're all both the town drunk and the bank president - it just depends on who's in charge.

I run a successful web firm, and am outwardly a happy-go-lucky manic-type person - out of public view, I drink and brood.

Conversely, my younger brother, who lives with me, is a melodramatic, miserable guy outwardly, but has this inner happiness and contentedness that I've never understood, and have always both envied and feared.

We balance.

We both had equally fucked up childhoods in different ways - I had a father who would beat me and lock me outside in the snow, naked, on Christmas - he had no father of which to speak. I had a cowed, frightened animal of a mother, who'd claw and shriek, he had a mother so fucked up on christ knows what that she just didn't care.

Anyway - went on more of a tangent there than I intended - my point is that more people than you can ever possibly know are "damaged" in one way or another, but their incompleteness can be at least balanced by other people - what seems like meagre support can change someone's life.
Harry Browne demonstrates the effectiveness of asset allocation and periodic balancing in his book "Why the Best-Laid Investment Plans Usually Go Wrong". It's an old book from 1987, but the principle is timeless.

For example, I'm looking at a chart of his "Permanent Portfolio" from 1970 through 1987, which weights four asset classes equally at 25% each: gold, stocks, bonds, and cash. The portfolio has far lower volatility and far lower draw-downs than gold, stocks, or bonds alone. The portfolio also outperforms stocks or bonds alone. It does not outperform gold over this 17 year period, but by 1987 it comes close. It probably overtakes gold alone in subsequent years, since gold vastly underperformed the stock market from 1987 to 2001.

One good aspect of asset allocation is that it keeps on the opposite side of manic up or down trends. This strategy would have you selling gold at $800 in 1980, and buying gold at $250 in 2001. Gold has vastly outperformed the stock market since then.

Similarly, this strategy would have you buying stocks in 1974, when many people thought equities were "dead" and only fools were in the stock market.

You might think these references are a little dated, but again the principle is timeless. Anyone who says "it's different this time" is probably wrong.
Take a look at this slide-deck http://www.slideshare.net/ianfoster/e-science-foster-decembe... particularly page 10 onwards.

Lately this has been a hotly contested issue, with arguments both for and against open sourcing code. Though it is desired that code and weather models be open sourced. The incentive mechanisms that researchers in this field work under act against this goal. It is not uncommon to guard model, data and code, at least temporarily till enough publications have been wring out of them. Moreover the community is not very tolerant of mistakes, which makes people shy away from open sourcing their code lest embarrassing mistakes are discovered. All in all not a very healthy atmosphere.

Nonetheless many are working towards the goal of open sourcing understandable models (in python) http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2008/08/climate-models-is... But I do not know what has come out of it.

Other places of interest are http://mitgcm.org/ and http://wrf-model.org/users/release.php were you can actually checkout code.

Disclaimer: I have not played with any of these code. Its something that interests me, yet something that I have to put aside at the moment.
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I think it might depend on whether you're aiming for a career in academia, where there's a certain amount of (de facto, not necessarily conscious) age discrimination.

If not, I doubt it matters, but either way, 2 yrs seems fairly trivial. I finished my master's around 30, and I'm doing fine (in a non-academic job).
This seems to be why people don't go into educational software. Educational software doesn't win because it's the best, it wins because a bureaucrat mandates it for use.
To them you have inferior skills in marketing or management or finance or operations, etc. The older I get the more I realise how valuable marketing, finance, team building etc is to the success of an organisation. That should humble you.