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While the idea proposed is important, I believe pg cares more about the the team, which I think is reflected in the application. So you could very well generate a random idea and be accepted as long as you have an awesome group of people.
85% accuracy with UCLA doesn't sound that impressive... seeing as its only 35% better than a coin flip.

That said, its definitely a very marketable idea
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I remember reading (I wish I could remember where) someone speculating whether the story of invulnerable Achilles was a folk memory of a warrior using iron armor or weapons.

What caught my eye in that article is that the timing of the disruption of bronze by iron is timed at about 1200BC - which is pretty close to when there is archeological evidence for Troy VIIa being destroyed in warfare. Not to mention the catastrophic arrival of the Sea Peoples at about that time destroying a lot of cultures in the Eastern Med at that time and leading to what was pretty much a dark age for a few centuries until the rise of Classical Greece - maybe the Sea Peoples were using disruptive iron technology?
I put my phone in airplane mode for exactly this reason--it's not just being super busy, but I have lots of push notifications setup which in my daily life are helpful but while I'm sleeping or socializing not. However I need various other functions on the phone (e.g. my alarm) so turning it off not an option, moreover switching from airplane mode->non much faster.
What in the nine hells is a .22 caliber shotgun? Shouldn't it be a .22 caliber rifle? A shotgun tends to involve multiple, random pellets, which doesn't appear to be what the article talks about.
>But if you put enough hurdles in front of them, they will become pirates. As I did this morning.

People are seriously re-prioritizing their "needs". There's a prayer about having enough so you're not tempted to steal. It's supposed to be about food and daily necessities.

Apparently some people need music so much that it's worth stealing for. Can't you just move on with your life, and decide to not listen to that music?

Relevant discussion was "don't make me steal": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176804
Small nitpick: CP/M came out of Digital Research (or, more accurately, DR formed around it), not Digital Equipment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
Rip from SoundClound.
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The article does not make it clear that to make a submission to the review itself you should see this page

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview/ipreview-c4e/ipreview-c4e-res...

the survey they are asking you to complete is submitted to Coadec whose agenda is here

http://www.coadec.com/?page_id=225
I tried MailChimp before but found them to be very slow, often it took hours for a signup confirmation email to be sent out which had a noticable impact on people confirming, so I ended up using SendGrid instead.
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OSF/1 morphed into Digital Unix and then into Tru64. I have seen Alpha boxes running NT, Linux and OpenVMS.
I don't understand this logic. It seems like he took every avenue possible to attempt to pay for the music (much more than other people who don't know about grabbing a UK IP address) and he wound up unable to do so.

Sure, I suppose he could just move on with his life, but it's an album he really wanted and even offered to pay for it. Changes in how the record industry operates need to happen, not peoples priorities.
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Seriously? It seems pretty easy to know how not to beat someone to death. It's very easy to inflict a lot of pain with only superficial injury - with a cane or paddle, for example.
Too few programmers know that UTF-8 is a variable length encoding: I've heard plenty assert that in UTF-8, every character takes two bytes, while claiming simultaneously they could encode every possible character in it.

A bit broader: too few programmers understand the difference between a character set and a character encoding.
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SBCL = Steel Bank Common Lisp

More precisely, if you tell the SBCL compiler to trust that all data types are as declared and omit type checks, it gives you code that's faster than gcc with the options at the bottom of this page: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=spe...

These are "inner loop only" compiler settings, at least the way I'd use it --- but it's still nice to see concrete demonstrations that you don't have to drop down to C code to get maximum performance.

EDIT: (declaim (safety 0)) also omits array bounds checks, and checks for undefined variables.
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I make exactly the mistake your friends do--I still have the first smartphone I ever bought, from, I believe, 2000. I also have a 3g I should've sold shortly after getting the iPhone 4.
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Well, a GCC "bug" - IIRC gcc used the i386 floating-point hardware, which is 80 bits wide (whereas PHP was expecting 64-bit doubles). GCC is arguably correct by preferring the wider type - people should just learn that == and floating point don't match.
Shotgun = smooth boor and they do make them 5.5 mm (.22 inch). If you look at how he is using the firing a lot of pellets is safer and would make the same sorts of holes.
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Armory_M6_Scout seems to be .22 caliber shotgun, designed as a "survival gun" for downed pilots.
Exactly the same story currently exists in reverse for the album 'Kaputt' by Destroyer.

It (used to be!) available to stream in full at http://hypem.com/#%21/artist/Destroyer. It's available to download at Amazon's US MP3 store for $5.99. It's not available to download from the UK MP3 store, and Amazon UK are charging £22 for a CD copy. That's 6 times the price!

I think I'll just torrent it and get it in lossless format, thanks very much.
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thanks, my question was right about the issues met by people living in another levels of abstractions.

i'm not a native english speaker and a newb to HN, so sorry that i put my sincere question so that it looked like arrogant statement 'there are no issues, what are you talking about, i even don't know what LE and BE mean'.

will learn.
I do a lot of data mining and text mining as well. My biggest concern is always memory usage and UTF-8 is hugely more memory efficient than UTF-16 in almost all cases, even for Asian text. Any difference in character counting performance is negligible compared to the benefit of avoiding disk access.

Also, the text I process is never UTF-16 at the source. So even if I used UTF-16, I would have to convert the text first and that would be the one and only time characters are counted. There would be no additional counting overhead at all.
But seriously lacks accuracy... and he needs pinpoint placement.
Typically shotguns come in one of several calibers: 10, 12 & 20 gauge are the most common, but .410, 32, 28, 24, 16 & 10 gauge along with 9 mm and .22 rimfire calibers have been manufactured.

He could have also been talking about what's referred to as an "over under" type shotgun. They are usually double barreled "over and under" rather than "side-by-side" and usually have a .410 on the bottom and a .22 long rifle on top.

Either way, it would have been accurate, however I am not a rifle expert, nor can I see what rifle he used to produce the artwork.
"It was listed on Amazon US as an import that would be available on Feb 15th, but only in CD form. I'm not buying plastic just to rip the files and throw it out."

What a hurdle indeed.
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Doesn't seem to be an issue w/ him. Wonder what happens if he misses, or messes it up. Seems like it could take quite awhile if you weren't a great shot, and weren't absolutely dialed in each time. Laser sights maybe? Closer to the canvas target? Who knows.
Re: char counting, as usual it depends on the application, but as the previous poster remarked you can keep a separate counter for O(1) length access, at least in situations where strings are relatively constant. I agree the author of the article omitted this point and that I personally am not as black and white in the 'UTF-8 is better' camp, but just string length is imo, usually, not an unsolvable bottleneck.
He specifically asked gcc for optimisation for code size (-Os). For speed, he should be using -O3 only. He used "-Os -O3". This invalidates the benchmark.
I haven't seen or even heard of any in decades, but there were some smoothbore .22 "rifles" and pistols made for firing shot capsules (they could fire ordinary bullets too). The ones I know of were intended for "snake medicine" where rattlesnakes were common. The reason for the smooth bore is that firing shot capsules out of rifled barrels leads to "blown patterns", that is areas where there are no pellets, especially towards the center of the pattern which is where you are actually aiming the gun.
The horn-reinforced bow was known and used for millenia, even by the ancient Egyptians. The specific innovation was the stirrup.

As for encirclement, the Mongols were decisively defeated in what is now Israel by that very tactic (stopping their advance into Syria and Egypt). Almost any general would prefer not to fight under encirclement.
On what was "Startup time" benchmarked?

I've never seen a PC take 2 min to start Windows 7. Unix would be seconds.
Um... did you see the article? :-) He holds the gun very close to the "canvas".
This is certainly nothing new. The reason why this is interesting is because Fred is actually trying to buy something off the UK and can't because he's an american, and typically the opposite is true (people outside the US being shown road-blocks and random impediments to actually spending their money in US-based services).

To give you a practical example: I steal just about every TV series I watch, because being back in Europe, I can't use Hulu, can't grab them off iTunes, and generally TV stations delay broadcasting for about 1 season (probably to keep prices down). Grabbing them off of torrents is as simple as waiting for the episodes to show up on my "downloads-tv" folder, thanks to RSS and a torrent client. This usually happens about 20 minutes after the original broadcast in the east coast - I just have go about my life and wait for them to be ready to watch.

Back to the topic: these legal hurdles that force you to buy things locally will eventually go away (they're already gone for a few things). That's the one true problem here. Some people will always pirate, and some people will pirate because it's convenient. It's certainly easier than using proxies, faking an address somewhere and generally lying about you because you want to give someone money. This whole deal boggles the mind.

TL;DR: Some people pirate things because it's more convenient. Companies should make it more convenient to actually purchase music/tv/movies/games online.
Without reading the article, I'm going to guess.... Honestly.

Now I'll read the article.
Agreed; plus, can't you turn the iPad/iPhone Kindle app to landscape mode, also affecting pagination?
Same thing is happening (has happened?) to video online - just try watching Hulu Plus on Roku or your iPad - no It's Always Sunny, no Top Chef and many, many other popular shows are missing. Apparently that's 'web only' content.

Didn't know I'd left the Web.
> too few programmers understand the difference between a character set and a character encoding

why then they have the same names??? :)))

ps/ http://www.grauw.nl/blog/entry/254 - is this article ok? first in google by "charset encoding difference"
Is this really still news? Yes, we know you can get great performance in some tasks with languages other than C. I swear, if I see ANOTHER article with the linkbait title of "X faster than C"...

The decent ones posted at least bother to do a comparison with several pseudo-representative tasks. This one just goes "hey, I played around with this ONE SPECIFIC TASK NOBODY GIVES A CRAP ABOUT and IT RAN 0.006 MILLISECONDS FASTER THAN IN C! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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It will be interesting to see how they improve accuracy over time won't it? I wonder what factors are used to calculate the odds and if they differ from men to women or college to college?
In addition to that, it also seems to be a big thing that people can place any sort of bets mid-game, rather than stopping all betting as soon as the game kicks off.

That's old news in Europe, not just thanks to a single site like Betfair - nearly every company offers in-game betting, both online and in shops.
Not a shotgun.

[Creel] comments, “The gunfire itself dictates how and what can be done. I use .22 caliber bullets and have to take into account the size of the bullets as well as the energy of the blast behind the projectile. The bullets dictate the size of the images I make and the blast knocks the paint off around each bullet hole: this all has to be planned for when I am designing a piece.” Creel holds his rifle directly against 4 x 6 white aluminum panels and fires as many as 5,000 bullets per panel to create his a finished piece. -- http://www.handeyemagazine.com/node/104
I kind of wonder how that guy who made Crush The Castle feels about the success of Angry Birds. Provided my timeframe isn't off, CtC was out and got a lot of play and downloads (on the iPhone) a good year and a half before angry birds even showed up.

The only MAJOR difference was the primary game mechanic; the projectile. CtC used a two tap mechanism where you launched balls from a trebuchet, it was all about timing. One tap to drop the weight, a second tap to release the ball. Progress through the game, you get three balls (yellow birds). Progress further, get bombs (black birds).

Suddenly, this Angry Birds game comes out, and the most noticeable difference is that it's cuter, and uses a slingshot instead of a trebuchet. A quick google search of the two brings up "Crush the Castle, Angry Birds set in midevil times".
It's a same with TV shows, which persist with ridiculous region based rules, what chance does legit content have when you go there wallet open and it won't let you buy. I guess in the short term they are getting more money from the overseas networks they are syndicating to, but eventually that money won't be there because nobody bothered to wait till they got around to showing it.
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Same thing happens with every TV show produced in US if you do not live in the US yourself.
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The Scout is a double barrel gun with a .410 shotgun and a .22 rifle; it is not a .22 shotgun.
I wonder if the "microbial fuel cell" they mention is actually any better then a normal battery pack of the same size. If it does't do any kind of waste disposal, I imagine it has a limited lifespan - so we have to ask if it is longer or shorter then the non-flesh-eating kind.
Maybe I'm dense but I don't see any API documentation on how to use it.
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".22 caliber bullets" don't mean it wasn't a shotgun. It means he fired .22 caliber ammunition. Could have been fired from a shotgun (over under .410 w/ .22 long rifle maybe?)
I am not stealing. I am downloading TV shows.
There really needs to be 2 distribution methods, someone buying the content is making a network far more money than they would have made advertising to that person.

Overseas networks should just accept that a small portion of the audience would buy it online before it is shown there, you could even subsidize them based on where the online content sales come from.
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When you say 'ASCII' I guess you mean 'strings where all bytes have a decimal value in the range [0-127]', right? If so I agree that it's rare to encounter that, but the common use (however wrong) of ASCII is 'chars are in [0-255]', i.e. all chars are one byte; and that data is very common.

Thinking about it, I don't know what codepage the UTF-8 128-255 code points map too, if any, though; could you explain? If you treat UTF-8 as ASCII data (as one byte, one character, basically), does it generally work with chars in the [127-255] range.
Well, the Plan 9 guys famously got this right...
This article is really pushing the fact that books have become commodities. They no longer compete on quality but rather with cost. Pricing is less around value and more on cost plus.

I personally believe that there are salient differences between books (quality, time spent, book cover, number of pages, etc.) and having a big name publisher can open many opportunities for new authors just like in the music industry. I guess it would be more accurate to say that publishers can free up authors' time by using the publisher's resources for marketing and distribution, etc.

On a site like Hacker News, we take the success of product differentiation for granted. The best product will differentiate itself based on sound understanding of product development and will thus succeed. It would be unsafe to assume that business aspects are irrelevant.
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Great website. Can't be viewed in landscape mode on android. The socks and twitter link obscure the text. At first I thought that was part of the joke. Whatever. Gave me a laugh this morning and that is worth its weight in gold.
promote a hashtag? either literally by sponsoring a promoted trend, or just by adding a hashtag to the tweets your apps generates.

at the moment, you ask users to tweet eg "@betnext 5000 on SomeTeam - Feb 7th 2011"

Change that to "5000 on SomeTeam Feb 7th 2011 #betnext". to me a hashtag is better promotion than an @reply.
Boring, another overly-entitled whiny consumer.
> the worlds (first?) best postal service for the time

The first one actually belongs to Darius I of Persia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Road)

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Mounted couriers could travel 1,677 miles (2,699 km) in seven days; the journey from Susa to Sardis took ninety days on foot. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote, "There is nothing in the world that travels faster than these Persian couriers." Herodotus's praise for these messengers"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor darkness of night prevents these couriers from completing their designated stages with utmost speed"was the inspiration for the unofficial motto of the United States Postal Service.[3]
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> Some people pirate things because it's more convenient

Some music/games/TV shows are never released in my (admittedly small) country and there is no legal avenue to purchase them over the web. So sometimes it's not just convenience (of course, the content owner is not losing a sale in that case so you could debate whether this is piracy). FWIW, I try to do the right thing wherever I can so studios would simply make more money if they lifted the restrictions
Been having the same problem.

Seems like a decent startup idea if you can get the content contracts.
A very good point. The article's conflation of the issues doesn't help: citing Nokia suing Apple in an American court, under America's unusually broad patent law is a poor example of alleged European reliance on copyright.

It's worth noting that the UK IPO is specifically asking for examples relevant to specific industries and for examples of how more lax copyright and patent regimes give other countries competitive advantages.
Ha. Try living in Uruguay (South America).

I can't buy most of the stuff I'd like legally, even though I wouldn't mind paying for it (even if I do buy it from, say, Amazon US, it's still illegal !!!). (Edit, fredolivera beat me to it and has a better argument here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2192699 )

I'll lobby for a change in laws, but the music, movie and software* distribution industries need to change as well (* by software I mean big software like Microsoft, Oracle et al, which have pernicious software licensing agreements which vary by country, etc.).
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I think you're confusing veganism with vegetarianism. Vegetarians don't eat meat, which is doable. Vegans try not to consume or use any animal products at all, which is near impossible. For example: dairy, honey and chewing gum are out of the question, as well as the use of beeswax, leather and products tested on animals.

Veganism is a recent, Western, movement. Vegetarianism has been around for millennia and is practiced by hundreds of millions around the world. In India alone, 40% of the population is vegetarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_in_specific_count...
Are your analytics set up properly? It's weird that you'd only get 10 visits from an article on TC.
I think Locale is supposed to do that, but I don't have an android device.
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"We beat C" is a claim that goes hand in hand with "we are viable for scientific computing", so I'm always interested in hearing it (although more benchmarks would be nice).
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The Four-Hour Body, by Tim Ferriss. There's a chapter on gaining progeny, for those who want that; he observes that when you put a cellphone next to rats for an hour a day their sperm count and free testosterone are lowered.
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New York released statistics that show that only 41% of NY students graduate prepared to get at least a "C" in college level math and writting classes.

Charter schools do much worse--only 10% of charter school students meet this "college ready" standard.
If you look at the app store, there is room for free apps, for quality apps around the 99 cent price point and niche apps/ big names up at the $10 mark. I think a similar thing will happen in the ebook market, personally depending on the book I'm more than happy to pay at the $10-$12 price point which I guess is at the top of the market.

I'm not the fastest reader and I don't devote more than probably an hour a day on average to long form reading so one book can keep me going for some time, I'm sure others that power through books in a day would feel differently about the high price point.
Something like a real-world Hollywood Stock Exchange?

http://www.hsx.com/

Used to play that a long time ago...
Artillery games go back a long, long way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game

Anyone who grew up with DOS probably remembers Gorillas.BAS and Scorched Earth. These new games aren't much different.

In fact, aiming a projectile at a target is probably the oldest game in human history:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870377970457607...
So pirate it and when it IS available pay for it. It's what everyone else who wants to pay for music does.