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I'm not sure if I love the standalone logo, but I am loving those shirts. Reasons why the shirt is awesome:

1) It's not black. (I have too many damn black tech shirts at this point in my life).

2) Sales profits go to development of the HTML5 suite. (A good cause!)

3) As you say, superman. And who doesn't want to be a super hero?

Ordering mine now.
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>"After working with Jobs' for 13 or 14 years you have to assume some of the magic has rubbed off."

Actually, I would assume that none of them are really cut out to be alpha dog. For Jobs it's been my way or the highway for close to 35 years (even if he was the one hitting the road at times). That's a personality type. None of them have a Pixar on their resumes.

If the future of Apple's success is depends on the transfer of magic between executives, antenna gate was a preview of the problems Apple faces. A deep bench is all well and good, but their can be only one successor.
How to interact with web services, databases and other integration points.
I did not knowingly post an affiliate link.

Of the parts of the URL, which is it?

http: //www.amazon.com/ Art-Computer-Programming-Combinatorial-Information /dp /0201038048/

And, I did not edit the link. Perhaps some admin removed the affiliate part. However, when I go to the page in my browser, it looks just like it does above. Perhaps I followed a link to Amazon earlier in my session and picked up someone's affiliate link.
Make two versions, one ad-free for 99cts and one free with ads.
Or, manage just fine having a real-life social network, and not feel the need to replicate it online.
A recent post on LessWrong, http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gv/statistical_prediction_rules_out... , suggests that won't help much, at least for most people. Even when they have superior tools and information available, most people prefer their own, inferior, judgement.

blockquote

>If this is not amazing enough, consider the fact that even when experts are given the results of SPRs, they still can't outperform those SPRs (Leli & Filskov 1985; Goldberg 1968).

>So why aren't SPRs in use everywhere? Probably, we deny or ignore the success of SPRs because of deep-seated cognitive biases, such as overconfidence in our own judgments. But if these SPRs work as well as or better than human judgments, shouldn't we use them?

/blockquote
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Grid Engine has a new home, developers joining Univa
Strange, I was a FB hater until I watched the movie, at which point I wanted to find more reasons to like it (though the releasing of phone #'s and address data didn't help).

My wife, on the other hand, liked Zuck less by the end of the movie, even though she knew it was mostly sensationalized. It still hasn't changed her FB behavior.
Ask HN: How do you break free from your 9 to 5?
When you have a family with kids you cannot risk letting go of the only source of income so you try to work on projects on the side. Is that good enough for achieving success and financial freedom?
This movie is not about Facebook. If you watch the behind-the-scenes documentary on the 2nd disk, they even tell you this. Facebook, in the context of this movie, was just a vessel to deliver a story about building something big and conflict. Much as a tortilla chip is a vessel for nacho cheese.
I'll be happy to have Java 7 just for the new VM with InvokeDynamic. I've pretty much moved on from writing "plain old Java" and am using Groovy heavily, while also learning Scala and Clojure.

One of the biggest knocks against Groovy has always been performance, so if InvokeDynamic helps the Groovy team amp up Groovy's performance, that'll be a big win in my book. And if it helps JRuby, Scala, Jython, Clojure, or any other JVM languages (which it should... I think the JRuby guys are really excited about this), then so much the better.
IQ also correlates with diet, exercise, and health care.

PS: It's not that these things boost IQ or Beauty. Instead it's their lack is what reduces attractiveness and IQ. Basically, take an IQ test while tired, sick, and starving and you will do worse. Also, the average young, healthy, and physically fit person is reasonably attractive.
Just wanted to add that this is the exact opposite to what some large game companies do. I bought Settlers 7 (an Ubisoft title) and got kicked out of the single-player campaign every time my internet connection blipped. In contrast, had I pirated the game, I would have had a paradoxically better experience. No incentive to buy, whatsoever.
I'm about to roll out a site using Mollom for the first time, will be interesting to see how well it works.
The SAP states that the values of the constants of the laws of physics are so fantastically, improbably finely tuned to allow the existence of matter and life, that it seems highly likely that these values were predesigned.

Even if you accept this (and it’s worth noting that only the tiniest sliver of our universe is hospitable to our kind of intelligent life), it just pushes the question back one level. If our universe was created, then whoever created it must have also grown up in a universe that could spawn intelligent life. Would that universe need to have had its variables tuned as well?

This is just a repackaging of a standard argument that adds complexity while explaining nothing.
Yeah, that story confirms my suspicion that Assange is anti-authoritarian rather than just anti-coercion.

I think he'll be losing some of his libertarian fans if he publishes information of people who simply want to be more free.
Evidence points to no FBI backdoors in OpenBSD, but questions still remain
Tim Cook is more than ready to be "alpha dog". The amount of money that he is getting is specifically to keep him at Apple and not be poached by some other company. Steve Jobs has instilled the culture and I don't see much of a problem, they seem really good at getting rid of people (even if they spent time / money to recruit) if they don't work out.
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Still, even 0.99$ or whatever it costs is not nothing. I know people who have racked up several hundred EUR in App shopping. It adds up.

And people don't buy every game that is cheap.
Discoverability isn't an issue if the learning curve is small enough to fit into a 30-second ad. By the time iPhone 5 comes out, everyone who watches major network TV will know how to use it.
Jacob: I'm kinda right in the middle of a thing
right now, but can I text you later?
Girl at Club: Can you what?
Jacob: Are you online at all?
Girl at Club: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Jacob: How do I get a hold of you?
Girl at Club: You come find me.
Jacob: That sounds... exhausting.
Europe's 'stupid' satellite plan driven by French interests
It's possible that the credit card companies might get affected by this if somehow these NFC technology communicate directly with the banks, akin to the debit system. But that's an unlikely scenario, credit cards and their reward system gives incentive to people to use their credit cards.
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Has it aged well? I don't remember when or why I moved away from it, but there must have been a reason.
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yes, but it makes it that much more difficult. You also need to stay more focused because you don't have that much time during the day.
Measuring The Impact Of Your Product with Jared Goralnick of AwayFind
Since I'm French, I can't say much on the English writing. Though I found it very clear and easily readable. I'm very interested in this topic because I'm in the process of trying to evaluate my business project and, of course, I have no money.

I liked your two step approach that consisted in a first tour with simple interviews and a second tour with questionnaire to objectify the collected data.

A recent post on Hacker News has pointed out the crucial importance of the business validation to evaluate the right company valuation which it self determines if the investing is an attractive deal or too risky.

Business validation is a topic that is not well covered in startup informations available on the web.
I won't believe in those findings until I see a correlation of beauty/IQ and family income.

I've never seen a person that grew in a rich family be downright ugly.
> You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!

-- Richard Feynman
They are distributing black and white versions like you mention. Moreover these can be easily colorized to subtly blend with a design. The ease of this transformation does show foresight. The real issue is instead the boldness of the shield and font choices, but that fits the use case of the logo which is pride in technology and standards compliance. Not every website must use the logo, obviously. All said and done, very, very few will no matter how popular the logo is.

I'm on a really poor connection, so I'll do research later, but the difference between display and body variants in fonts comes to mind immediately. Knowing the two distinct use cases will highlight very different properties of the font's design, the letterforms are varied. The differences can be fairly large, however it is always clear that the two fonts are from the same family.
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Smell your games. Good idea, or good reason it's failed so many times?
I've been thinking about it, and I think that another possibility is that there is no drop off, just a very flat curve with all companies spending a very similar but low amount, meaning the only reason facebook earns money from advertising is through the high volume of companies advertising on facebook. This makes sense in my mind, because I have a hard time believing google spends less than this unheard of company.
But, your explanation seems equally likely at the moment...
Yes (lambda/closures - NOT), and (NOT) the "modularization" change where they were going to separately bundle groups of packages.

The modularization/bundling features also sound like/related-to the maven-ish extension discussed (somewhere) to put versions on these bundles and "even more public than public" specifiers on things to be exported from the modules themselves, as opposed to merely "public", but only between packages within the module. These changes sounded like they would relieve some of the DLL^H^H^Hjar hell with code needing different versions of 3rd party libs (e.g. - Axis-of-evil).

So, yeah, some corporate exec checklist features, but little for developer productivity / sanity added. Sadness.
Looks like the Autobot insignia.

Is this a declaration of solidarity against the evil forces of the Flashicons?
I don't know why this is such a surprise. This was all explained in the first chapter of Brave New World.
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Oh my, do I have to put it even more bluntly to get the point across: These commercial whitelists are effectively extortion scams and affiliate rings.

Their sole purpose is to extract money from you. They're businesses, that is their business model.

The value they provide in return is rather minimal - unless getting e-mail out is at the very core of your business and you need to pull every last string to absolutely maximize it.

Otherwise there are cheaper ways to get reasonable deliverability even at AOL and Hotmail. The default deliverability is already quite good, which is what services like SendGrid largely bargain on. I firmly doubt SendGrid signs each of their customers up for the aforementioned whitelists. They probably offer "assistance" with the process, which probably amounts to sending you a link to a nice HowTo document, and which probably yields them a small affiliate kickback when you actually follow through.
I was taken aback somewhat when a "Hey PlentyOfFish user, log back in today!" banner popped up over a video.

I didn't log back in that day, and decided to stop doing so.
I really don't like this co-branding the Times has been doing for awhile. This is actually a ReadWriteWeb article, not an article written by Times staff, and not one that goes through the Times' fact-checking process or anything else.

Here's the original: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iphone_5_completely_red...

Every time I get an article like this, and it's under the times brand, I presume that it's been through the editorial processes of the Times. But it hasn't. It's a way to confuse credibility and I really wish the Times wouldn't do this.
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115403 (URL differs only in that this one has a random-looking fragment ID appended; (1) isn't HN supposed to check for that, and (2) why did you do that, mikecane?).

What I said there:

Actual article is at http://personal.lse.ac.uk/KANAZAWA/pdfs/I2011.pdf.

They used two populations with different measurements of attractiveness and of intelligence, and analysed them separately.

In the first population they got results that suggest on the order of 11-14 IQ points per standard deviation in attractiveness.

In the second, 2 IQ points per standard deviation.

The first population was of children in the UK. Their measure of "attractiveness": the children were assessed at ages 7 and 11, by their teachers, as one of "attractive", "unattractive", "underfed or undernourished", "abnormal feature", and "scruffy or slovenly & dirty". I kid you not. You may, if your own intelligence happens to be reasonable, be able to think of one or two problems with assessing "attractiveness" in this way when you're looking for correlations with intelligence.

(One more detail: attractiveness was treated as a binary variable in Kanazawa's study, with a child being reckoned "attractive" if put into the "attractive" category both at age 7 and at age 11. More than 60% of children were reckoned "attractive" by this criterion. Draw your own conclusions.)

The second population was of US high school pupils. They were reassessed about 7-8 years later, at age 18-28. (How were any of them 28 at that point? I don't know.)

The NY Daily News story says:

> The study indicated attractive men have IQs that are 13.6 points above the average, while beautiful women are 11.4 points higher than average.

which is simply rubbish: those figures are from the first population only (and the second gives much, much weaker results), they concern children of age 7 or 11 and not "men" or "women", and they're really measuring all kinds of things other than attractiveness.
The cult of personality around Jobs cuts both ways. For years he (and Ives) has been viewed, if not held, as the rock of Apple, and the font of its inspiration.

That perception can't just suddenly change overnight when its no longer convenient.
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> Really, you think its worth their cut, just to operate the store?

That's not all they do, though. They build the platform and heavily market it, too.
Is a dividend a normal thing for a term sheet? I've never really heard of that before.
That sounds reasonable, I would certainly be quite careful with such statements if I was in that field.

I'm slightly skeptical towards the opening part, are there really "thousands of AI scientists" in the English-speaking parts of the world? I'm surprised, but I have really no insight into the world of AI science.
>I feel that the only reason you don't like any of these words is because you don't want copyright infringement painted in a bad light.

No, I'm just pedantic. I don't do copyright infringement; as a developer, depending on copyright for my living, I hold that it would be immoral.
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Is this not blazingly obvious? There is no such thing as inherent beauty in the world - there is just the human perception of beauty. And we find other humans beautiful, not for some random reason, but because they will make better and fitter mates. That's what beauty in human beings is.

And being more intelligent is indeed a part of being better and fitter.

Beauty is a way for your body to broadcast its fitness. And there is no reason to think that it would broadcast only physical fitness, and totally ignore any form of mental fitness, even though it's mental fitness that has been responsible for most societal advances in recent years, AND personal advances.
I don't believe that facebook is the technological fad that tech pundits want them to be. They have infected the infrastructure of the web in ways that livejournal and myspace never could.
This comes out to ~16% efficiency. The big question is the cost per watt of this technology.

It's very hard to beat liquid hydrocarbons as a portable energy source. 16% efficiency is fantastic when you take the form factor into account. Add in the fact that our established infrastructure already can consume, process, convert, and transport this stuff, and you have a winner.

Remember, portability brings a whole raft of additional requirements and challenges.
This is a very important article. An eye opener.

My takeaway is this - Facebook is the first web application that showed us how easy it is to connect to the people we love, as well as those we know, but do not care about.

Facebook is the mere beginning of the way we will communicate in the future. It has its gripes, and people are starting to get bored with it ("ok so I friended her, now what?").

Nothing happens on Facebook.

Facebook, in my opinion, will eventually fade, and make room for new models of human communication, ones which do give us an added benefit instead of poking and secretly stalking our ex-girlfriend.
> We never needed a term to refer to “XHTML 1.0 plus CSS2.1” or “HTML4.01 plus JavaScript”

Various combinations of these were labeled with terms like “Web Standards”, “Semantic HTML”, “DHTML”, “Ajax”, “Web 2.0”, etc.

If people want a term that denotes “website which takes advantage of modern standards-based browser features”, how is that a bad thing?
Maybe one day we'll hear something like this about Facebook, too: http://www.theonion.com/video/internet-archaeologists-find-r...
You could just bookmark it.
cars are lucky to be 20% so it's really about the same cost as an electric car.

Except that your range is going to be a whole lot better and the maintenance costs for your storage device are a whole lot smaller.
I want to chime in here because I took a job in this industry (high frequency trading in particular) right out of college.

I can't speak for the whole industry as I've only worked at one firm, but my experience has been generally positive:

1. The work environment is similar to the software companies I interned with. Nobody wears a suit, the hierarchy is relatively flat, free food/soda/etc.

2. The problems are really interesting. HFT is a competitive game and good (read: fast and reliable) technology is just as important as smart algorithms.

The only downside? It's difficult to leave. I've had coworkers that have been around a while say that people generally don't leave the industry voluntarily.

Why? Money. I'm not trying to be a braggart but I can say with a high degree of certainty that I will never make as much as a developer at a normal software shop as I do now, with the exception of launching or getting in at the very early stages of a successful startup.

Believe me, I get the whole "money isn't everything", "adding real social value is more rewarding" mindset, I do. The reality is though that it isn't easy to halve your salary based on a philosophical argument, however persuasive, especially when you're still working on cool problems.
sell corn futures?
There is perhaps some chance that I could be wrong due to the substantial inertia which Facebook has now accumulated, but I expect that it's just another fad which seems to be peaking if my spider-senses are correct. Facebook is not a particularly brilliant application and the amount of value it delivers is also not that great. If you're a Facebook user or addict, just pause for a moment and ask yourself how much actual value you're getting out of it relative to the time invested.
"how easy it is to connect to the people we love"

I think connecting to someone used to mean something different, although I am not sure what it was.
Well I guess i'm more basing it on semantics -- secularity typically is defined by a state being separated from religion, and I was just pointing out that Tunisia has explicit mentions of religion in regards to its state and president, whereas Algeria explicitly states otherwise.

RE: Algeria, I have a lot of family there, and my immediate family travels back at least once a year. Overall it's a very liberal, secular country, especially compared to other Arab nations.
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Sounds like a hoax. The claim is extreme - an organism can't actually exist entirely on CO2 as claimed. What else is false? All of it?
These guys are printing money.
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I think the question still applies. How much your time is worth does not need to be hypothetical - it can take into consideration how much your employer (presumably your startup) can afford to pay you for your time.
Must be a polarizer then.
From http://www.rubyinside.com/rails-installer-ruby-and-rails-on-... (which I worked on with Wayne), I just wanted to repeat a key point:

I've been speaking to Wayne and in the long term he will extend the RailsInstaller site with more information on where to go next and links to tutorials, etc, but for now he wants RailsInstaller.org to be the #1 "go to" site for budding Windows-based Rails developers. To help with this, he's keen for people to link to http://railsinstaller.org/ with the text Rails Windows Installer - making it more likely to come up if people Google for "rails windows" and similar.

Being on sites like HN will probably do most of the work but Wayne & RVM have been significant credits to the Ruby world in the last year so if you have the opportunity to link it up, please do! I'm going to get a link on Ruby Inside ASAP..
They get paid for their hardware. Everybody else does too - phones, Android. Apple adds to that a 'company store' model that is unjustified.

They do it only because they can get away with it.
>>>why did you do that, mikecane?

It wasn't on purpose! I count on the filter here to save me from posting things already up. The NYDN must take the blame here for giving me the URL that it did.
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Sounds cool, just watch out for that "Face" name...http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373258,00.asp
I do like the impact of the logo, but am I the only one who thinks it's a bit too "military?"
Long on hype, short on proof and details. Also, releasing tons of genetically engineered microorganisms into the wild - what could possibly go wrong?
This is definitely going to help with the accusations of religiosity and crackpottery.
You know what would be totally awesome? Paying for Gmail and Facebook so I don't have to deal with any fricking ads, and so I can expect a commensurate amount of commitment from the companies that run them.
Though Kurzweil is well respected I find myself unconvinced of most of his assertions.