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Totally agreed that it was one of my mistakes. It was wrong to get TC review so early. Another lesson learned. :)
A case against "It's only one more year"
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"the fact that you have the key at some point"

I speculated about this in another post. Perhaps the CarKit thingy acts as a remote starter, so the renter never has the physical key?
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Great fun, but I suspect NIMBY concerns would kill any practical application.

Let's imagine they get the machines scaled to the point when they could build an actual habitable structure, and that they sort the power concerns that I suspect would make it insurmountably uneconomic.

Now, imagine a squad of sufficiently large and powerful helicopters buzzing away all day next to your office. How many people are going to be OK with that?
What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?
Thanks for the comment. Will pass that to our designer.
It takes a lot for me to recommend a product, but having played with ImpactJS (on the list) I can't recommend it enough.

Although it's commercial, $99 is cheap and it was great fun to tinker with over the Christmas holiday (I like paying for software, then I don't feel guilty if I have a question to two). The integrated level designer really made it more approachable for somebody just starting to think about HTML5 games.
Collaborating with distribution packagers is a lot better than maintaining your own repositories. Packagers should always be up to speed with the latest guidelines and best practices for their distribution. I have often seen badly built packages by upstreams.
If robotic ground based cranes can't reach inside the building, then for the most part, neither can human workers [making similar adjustments for scale]. Robotic helicopters might have advantages where helicopters are currently used for construction. But those are limited cases.

Generally, the duration of construction is determined by economics and weather. Flying robots probably don't provide an advantage on either front.

There may be some applications for MAV's for the inspection of construction. But there's an off the shelf solution already availible [http://www.amazon.com/Air-Hogs-Hawk-Eye-Channel/dp/B00395EJR...]
Graph.tk plots equations on a canvas and it's LGPL
The app has to warn you as to what is getting sent; you then get to decide if you want the app or not.

In other words, it's not really "all or nothing" as much as "whatever this particular app asks for, or pass on this app."
Yeah, hardly scientific, but it's at least anecdotal evidence that there's some room for improvement. Like you I wonder how different the results are with google.ru though. I live in Ireland, but sometimes do queries in Dutch. Google.nl often gives different and much better results for those than google.ie.

Also slightly off-topic: I appreciate that English isn't the author's first language, but, wow, that was painful to read. I feel his point might come across a bit stronger without sentences like
"Or perhaps a painkiller should be administered to dispense the suffering of google as we strike with the mercykill?"
or
"Perhaps it is time for google to crash down on the matress of bitter disappointment as well, a la black swan."
Well, that and incredibly beneficial union rules. Lots of work printing cargo manifests, handing them to another person who types it into another system, and so on. But it's ok, that process only adds a marginal amount of delay, error, and cost. It's better than getting shut down by a strike, right?
Ah, but homeopathy is based on the idea that the smaller the dosage, the stronger the effect. So, the easiest way to overdose is to not take any at all. It's a wonder any of us are still alive at all....
Actually the thing I'd be concerned about is that energy extraction isn't free. It means that you kick the ball and you get more "thud" and less "bounce". How much more? I don't know. But unless you're forcing the kids to play with this ball, quite possibly enough to make it much less attractive.

Almost all of the ideas for harvesting human energy or other incidental energy has this problem where people forget about conservation of energy. If you gussy up your road to collect energy from passing automobiles, the fuel economy goes down. If you hack your floor to do the same to passing people, that makes your floor harder to walk on. People don't really output that many watts under any circumstances, the only thing I've seen that is useful is extracting milliwatts for very small electronics like pacemakers or something. These ideas keep winning design competitions but I think we never see them because they don't actually work in the real world with real people. It seems like the same amount of money put into solar panels is very likely to be a far more effective investment.
I don't think it's my computer performance (I have an i7), but something with the package.

I'll try again with vanilla DF when I have the time.
This is only really worthwhile if I get to pick-and-choose the 20-30% myself (which implies I could get the full 100% if I wanted to make the effort). A table of contents, chapters 1 and maybe 2, possibly 3, and perhaps an epilogue and index may constitute 20% of a book but wouldn't be very useful in many situations. As a concrete example, many programming books devote their first 100 pages or so to introductory material, even if around page 500 they start going into 3D vector spaces or such. I'm interested in that later material, not the introductory stuff, and I'd feel cheated if a Google-indexed Index page led me to believe I could get some free info when I couldn't.

Edit: I would concede that fiction titles can benefit from releasing chapters 1, 2, 3 as a further hook into getting people to buy it. But people and publishers do this already, have for a long time, it works pretty well for them.
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Learn to program. Is easy.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
The next thing to do would be to wait for them to swap the defaults and make it so that you have to specifically opt-out of the scheme, or have your contact information casually shared with a set of third parties. Then we could scream for privacy and spread instructions on how to disable that using this week's user interface to the privacy settings.
I'm not a bash expert, but I ended up adding "set -e" to the beginning of this one, and tweaked it a bit to do what I needed (eg: scp to remote backup site).

Drop a line if you want a copy!
I get your point re:SQL Server & Oracle (though not for all DBMS types) - but why do you need horsepower to serve web pages?
the revolts and demonstrations, and even murdering of journalists, continues to get very little attention in the US media. Despite blogs, social media and video sharing sites being part of the vehicle of dissent. I wonder if mass media feels a bit burned by the previous Iran 'twitter revolution' not leading to a greater outcome.
"...Project Denver where they are building high-performance ARM-based CPUs, designed to power systems ranging from “personal computers and servers to workstations and supercomputers”."...

It looks like there targeting everything from mobile devices to the datacenter. I wouldn't be surprised to see ARM server's running 'big server tasks'. ARM is a huge threat to Intel and the potential power savings in big datacenters should add up to quite a bit.
Normal rental car companies have employees whose job it is to maintain the car, fix any cosmetic damages and notify the administrative unit if they believe a significant damage or theft has taken place. However, this is a different situation. The owner of the car seems to be the one who is repsonsible here for carrying out any checks and my question is, what is the process for negotiating any claims of theft or damage in this case? In the case of a normal car company, they simply make an outright decision as to whether the driver has damaged or stolen and then they put a charge on the person's credit card. In this case there are three parties - the renter, the owner and the middleman (getaround). So, if a claim of damage is made by the owner, in order to bill the renter, there needs to be a process on getaround's part to verify that claim. Similarly, if the renter claims that a false damage/theft claim has been made by the owner, there needs to be a way for the renter to be able to support that claim. My question is, what is that process? Does it require both the owner and renter to document all aspects of the car before an after each trip? Because to me that seems like the only way to ensure that fraud does not occur at some point in this process.
A 4x8 sheet of 1/2" Gypsum board weighs nearly 60 pounds. A five gallon bucket of paint weighs about the same. A quadrotor couldn't finish an office because it would be too large to fit through the door...never mind the rotating blades.
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I sell pictures. That all I do.

I simply put it behind a paywall and put up a preview image to entice people to download.
Yup I agree. A lot of fun too.
Building something new isn't exactly the problem - we could. There are several good alternatives around, most of which have been listed on the website itself. MDC is great and anyone can contribute.

The problem is that W3Schools dominates the search results. If you search for "html colors", guess which website is at the top. This happens for much of the faulty pages as well.
Great show, but there needs to be another device (carried by the quad rotors) to create very strong bonds between the parts. If the quad rotors could carry this bond-making robot that temporarily attaches to the parts and joins pieces with adhesive/nailgun/puzzle-piece fit, then they would be on to something.

Make a structure of actual use, like a tiny bridge across a moat that could hold people. The magnets have got to go.
Is it able to do isometric view and pathfinding ?
I thought this too so I upvoted you.. Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised to find that wasn't the case.
Assuming the ARM servers can beat Intel in "work per joule", which I think they will, then they can win in what is now the VPS space.

I use virtual private servers from three different vendors for a number of projects, and they make a lot of sense from the cost standpoint, but they have a huge drawback that you are sharing resources with others and their workloads impact your abilities (plus any one of them could be a vector to introduce a hypervisor exploit and compromise the system). I'd much rather have a small computer to myself.

Imagine a 1U system[1] with 32 independent 1GHz ARM servers[2]. That hits about the same power use as a modern intel machine, has an amazing memory bandwidth by comparison, and if you rent them out for ~$8/month each (smallest slices available now) it is a money farm.

Systems like this will also work for problems that scale laterally. Pushing that a bit, imagine if a CDN vendor started putting racks of these at their strategic locations, you could improve your application's response time by hosting nearby, handling locally what you can, and bundling the heavy lifting back to your big servers in an efficient way.

[1] Or 2U if space isn't at a premium. They are easier to cool.
[2] Disks go elsewhere, say across a 1gbps ethernet switch to a SAN. Build in the switches and you don't need the magnetics for the ethernet, there are clever capacitive solutions.
One speculation on the parts issue... Most rental companies only rent cars which have been produced in the past couple of years. Because those vehicles are almost always under warranty, I wonder if the black market for used parts for them is small and therefore doesn't provide much of an incentive for such theft? Almost all repairs involving mechanical failure (as opposed to an accident) on newer cars are handled by dealers because of warranties.

Let's consider slightly older vehicles. Or, for that matter, even newer ones. How many parts on a car could be profitably swapped out with low value replacements while allowing the vehicle to remain operable? One could certainly replace a water pump with an older one, but it couldn't be so badly damaged that the vehicle could not be driven a few miles. What's the marginal difference in the value of the stolen part vs. the semi-operable one? Is the sum total of these marginal differences minus the cost of renting the vehicle sufficient to make this crime worthwhile? For non-commodity vehicles (a Honda Civic w/ many aftermarket parts, etc.), I can see positive ROI for the thief, but owners of such vehicles would no sooner rent them out than they would offer up their pets or girlfriends by the hour.
That's exactly what people used to say about x86, with some combination of IBM, DEC, Data General, Control Data, HP (PA-RISC), SGI (MIPS), Sun (SPARC), etc. substituted for Intel.
I think the part connection is just an implementation detail. They can make these guys place something and another robot attaches.
I'm really confused by the notion of the "In the time this article took, they could have built a better one" arguments.

I don't know how long you think it took ( https://github.com/paulirish/w3fools ) but it took a couple of hours of time from a few people over about a week.

I'm not sure the last time you built a website to scale and to the breadth of information that's found on w3schools (valid or not), but it takes a hell of a lot longer than a week.

And just because the creators didn't build a clone of w3schools, doesn't mean they aren't contributing useful information back to the various communities affected by the nonsense published at w3schools. Every single one of them are writing blog posts and submitting to open source projects, hosting podcasts, helping on IRC channels and forums, and building helpful websites to learn exactly the same stuff found on w3schools, except with valid information.

The creators of w3fools have no issue with the other resources that are available that they suggested as alternatives. For more specific beginner data, there are numerous walkthroughs and helpful answers littered across the internet with the correct information in them. Creating yet another site that puts together tutorials isn't what is needed. They want the beginners to be able to have a fair chance at good knowledge. Creating a site to slowly gain google juice over the next two years does nothing to help people today. Until w3schools stops showing up first for every "___ Tutorial" search in existence, the job of making it a notoriously questionable resource will do way more good than building a shadow site would do. If at least you are somewhat aware that you should fact check the things that you learn there.

I find it a little bit troublesome that the group that follows 'hacker' news is so willingly supportive of blatant technical misinformation. You can nitpick about some of the things that are brought up, but as a whole, it's ridiculous that the number one resource for technical information is so wildly out of touch with reality. You can question the method that this was brought up, but you should still have the desire to see good information in the wild.

And finally, yes, there are other out of date websites that have tutorials on them, but they don't show up first in google, and they don't sell certifications based on their misinformation to unknowing people who don't realize that the certifications mean absolutely nothing (and are potentially detrimental). Get mad at whoever you want, but objectively speaking, the site is a disservice to the community, regardless of it's ease. Getting bad information is _always_ easy.
Good question. I am a Russian speaker - ran the same searches on google.ru and got much better results (than google.se). Were Google.ru's results better than Yandex? Probably not.

Perhaps the problem isn't quite as fundamental (non-English NLP sucks) but has more to do with secondary Locale handling in specific countries?

Interesting observation on US-centricity (is that a word?) nonetheless. Many major US Corps derive > 50% rev from outside of US. Not sure if GOOG is one of those.
The more an artwork is shared, the more people know about it. The more people know about it, the more likely they will visit the artist's site. The more people visit the site, the more likely that the artist will make money, either though selling swags, advertising space, or even begging for donation.
Here is an easy answer. Research how technically demanding it could be and come up with a phony project that requires the same skill set.Get multiple people (independent of one another) to code it .While you do this gauge all of them and see who might be reliable enough to do your "real" project.
I would imagine because OpenID failed, it's popularity peaked in early 2008 and it's been dropping since then. It's pretty much a dying technology. Most consumers have no idea what it is.
Sounds like you live in an affluent or at least broadly educated area, if people broadly have such high-minded concerns about the welfare of the community. Your experience may not translate to more economically-mixed neighborhoods.
I bet some money that without the folks downloading free copies of the book the author wouldn't have sold as much in the first place.
I seem to remember that not so long ago it was standard advice not to give out your address or phone number to people you don't know on the internet.
+1. Note that this is also explained under the big “BUILD ONE YOURSELF” heading on http://w3fools.com/.
Facebook has refused to provide that option.
>implies content actually isn't worth sensationalizing
It seems that airport-centric rental businesses like Hertz/Avis/etc. avoid adverse selection bias in renters because customers have a need which is independent of undesirable traits. Furthermore, by virtue of being able to afford a plane ticket (or, even better, be important enough to have someone else buy one for them), airport renters have demonstrated some level of responsibility.
"I don’t have any inside information about Facebook’s finances, and I’m not a Goldman client. But I’m convinced that when we look back at this investment, it will rank as one of the best stock opportunities available today — akin to buying Apple stock just before the release of the iPod.... Disclosure: Ethan has a very small position in a Facebook secondary vehicle, purchased in 2010."

Oh, well, at least it's an expert opinion from somebody who has no stake in the matter.
There is yacc, as a fairly common standard case, and I find that quite a few of my homegrown tools for little languages fall into this category (e.g. translating a table into a header file, a source file, and a ruby script).
I'm not an expert with it - I'm in the tinkering phase only :-)

Having said that, based on what I saw on the forums it doesn't support isometric out of the box but you can create your own tile type and then work with isometric tiles (I can't speak for the creator, but the question has come up enough that I would hope he's looking at adding native support!).

The Isogenic Engine (http://www.isogenicengine.com/home/) on the list looks quite good for Isometric games but I haven't used it - would love to hear how people have found that library.

I'm not sure about path finding. I've been building basic platform style games where units go backwards and forwards typically.

For starting out with simple platform games though it's quite nice.
Just think about the potential impact if YC and the huge network of companies (and supporters here on HN) did something similar ...
second, it's more interesting that's it a portable generator that's 'fun' to energize. I'm not too concerned about car windows in places that actually use kerosene lamps to light their homes.
>>"If even HALF of those people who downloaded my book that week had bought it, I would have hit the New York Times Bestseller list."
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>Yeah, that's a BIG hint that piracy and sales aren't linked in any useful way.

There was an article on HN a while ago about how 1% isn't the lowest possible number, as in "if just one percent of people who see our ad buy our product..." I'm sad that this is happening to authors, but it does sound a little like whining at this point.
People have an incentive not to do things bad on Airbnb too.

It is called prison.
Check out SecondPorch (secondporch.com) for a pretty nice execution of that concept, built around FB Connect.
A site in india, jaagore.com(means wakeup), allows people to volunteer for a good social cause, or start a movement themselves. I think this domain could be helpful for similar site. You can also make use of Facebook/Twitter api to bring the social element into it.

Another use that comes to my mind is to use this domain to power a review site, may be a community powered startup review site where hackers, designers and entrepreneurs can review startups and provide suggestions for improvement. Think over this. If successful, it can turn into a good place for budding entrepreneurs to look for relevant information.
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Ethan had a followup a couple days later at http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/01/14/brocks-insight...

Josh Shahryar also had a great piece on Enduring America on Friday, after Ben Ali fled the country:

"Today, as dismayed as I was, I got an answer to my question: What happens when the media ignores a revolution? Sometimes,the answer is: Nothing. The media can help mobilize support for victims of earthquakes like the one in Haiti. The media can also help create an atmosphere where people can feel that they should care about those overseas. But, when the media refuses to cover a revolution, it really does not carry any impact.

That’s what people in Tunisia proved today by forcing their dictator to jump ship and leave the country. In a few hours, those US outlets who paid no heed will tell you how important it is that, for the first time in decades, a country in the Middle East has forced out an autocrat. Then you’ll have analysts telling you how important it is for US interests that this wave continues or maybe doesn't continue. There will be cute little graphs that Anderson Cooper can pull around on those big computer screens. Hey, it’s all going to be happening!

But this will be too late. The mainstream will not be part of the global wave of online support who witnessed a ground-breakingly inspirational event that will live on in memories for years to come and that could influence views on the Middle East, democracy, and human rights for decades."

More at http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2011/1/14/tunisia-specia...
what is "very little attention" ?

I saw it on CNN at a pizza place a few days ago.

Not saying that people shouldn't talk about it more, but whenever somebody says something isn't being covered by the "main stream media" I can usually show otherwise with a quick google search.

Often it is just code for: "Why aren't people caring about this issue that i care about?"

Not always the case, I'm just tired of hearing people say that.
5 upvotes.

Note that value is a time function, if you invest now, soon it will be worthing a lot more votes. I estimate 2 upvotes / 10 minutes.

(Too many words for my taste. If you put that many words in such a simple idea, make sure to hook me up in the first phrase and don't let me go until the end.)