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Age 40+, More calls than SMS
Age 40+, Mostly calls
I read all 31 snippets and I am still a terrible coder. Perhaps a better title would be "31 random CSS hacks, copied from other blogs, in no particular logical order"
What an anachronistic technology in a world of ubiquitous internet connections. I, for one, hate SMS.
It's ridiculous that I have to defend my statement that I simply do not know what influenced the show while others are not being required to backup their assumption the show was influenced by something specific without providing any actual evidence of it, such as a quote from an interview.

It's also ridiculous that this tangent about Andromeda has grown so long while there has been zero response to my actual on-topic inquiry regarding negotiating with difficult people.
I can't say I really know. I didn't hear about anyone breaking it, certainly.
Yes, I realize a different person said it. Yes, I did mean it creates problems when people feel their sacred stories are bastardized -- also that the bastardized stories may use a cool sounding name for a character that has a specific meaning to Christians and this can be confusing to the audience when they don't view it as simply a cool sounding name but, instead, read all kinds of deeper meanings into the character that simply were never intended.
jpegtran has always given me good results in this area. It strips all metadata, not just EXIF, and it also losslessly optimises the compression to further reduce the filesize. Obviously this latter operation exacts a fair toll on the CPU. It can also do other wacky stuff like lossless scaling, cropping and rotation.

http://jpegclub.org/jpegtran/

jpegtran -optimize -copy none -o outfile.jpg image.jpg

EDIT: recursive in-place optimization and stripping of all jpegs under current dir:

find . -iname \*.jp*g -exec jpegtran -optimize -copy none -verbose -outfile {} {} \;
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806150

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810787

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1161537

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1275109
If you install CFITSIO[1], you can rebuild GDAL with FITS support. GDAL is the crazy-format swiss army knife. Some caveats[2] apply, though.

1) http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fitsio.htm...

2) http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#FITS
Ask HN: Is there anyone with a top school MBA that regrets it?
Everyone is always talking about how it's not worth it to spend a lot of cash on an MBA.

But what is your take if you actually have a degree with a top school?

Do you regret it or would you do it all over again?
Same here; my first purchase was pre-286. I remember when PC-AT's were the new hotness.
This is kind of a weird article, it almost contradicts itself a bit.

As the article mentions, SMS'es are kind of piggy-backed with control signals sent on the network. At first they found they could tack on a 128 character message, but then reduced the character set further to get to 160 characters.

What isn't clear in the article is when this 'proof' that 160 was enough occurred. Did it occur after they figured out they could jam 160 in, in order to validate that 160 would be useful enough? Or did it really occur in the order that the article talks about, that they first picked 160 characters out of the sky, then managed to jam that into the signal.

I find the latter to much less likely. 160 just happens to be the most you can fit in to the packet, which he then validated was probably enough to be useful.

Anybody know definitely otherwise?
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GPS coords where the picture was taken seems likely.
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> Did you consider the content of my post before posting that knee-jerk reaction? The first site is inflammatory, but for our purposes it is just hosting some graphs.

Yes, yes I did. The next time you want to make a point, pick a site with a bit more credibility.

Better hygiene and medical care helps stop people dying of infectious disease. But your inference is that because of this, vaccines are ineffective. Oh look, here's a better image:

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/imageLibrary/index.cfm/go/il.viewImageD...

Right? There are hundreds of these sorts of graphs and epidemiological studies out there, and they all look pretty much exactly the same. Better hygiene only gets you so far - to completely wipe out an infectious disease, you need vaccination.
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a world of ubiquitous internet connections

Haha, I dunno what world that is, I regularly travel to places where there's no GPRS/EDGE/whatever but there is good ol' GSM. Or sometimes there is data but it's prohibitively expensive.

Incidentally if you hate SMS you probably just have a crap phone. BlackBerry for one presents the same interface for SMS, IM, whatever, the underlying transport is irrelevant to the experience. I guess iPhone and Android are the same.
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Personally i believe that you should use the least amount of CSS hacks as humanly possible. The only one i use on a regular basis is clearfix. I usually dont have to use any others to get my layout working in everything except IE. I then use an IE specific style sheet (conditional comments) to break my layout for IE.

In my view its better to do that than use hacks.
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I said it before and I'll say it again: take TechCrunch as it currently exists, bolt-on a section for high-end electronics reviews, and you'd goose their revenues without any actual human who reads TechCrunch noticing. (The reviews rank based on on-page optimization plus the earned trust of TechCrunch, and the eCPM would be out of this world relative to any article TechCrunch publishes.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734020

Traditional publishers are cottoning to this tactic, too.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects...

Think like that, but 100x more aggressive. Will it degrade the NYT brand a little bit? Meh, it is the NYT: they'll still be the world's preeminent newspaper, they'll still make money from advertisements, and they'll still be able to credibly threaten Google with PRmageddon if Big Daddy G gets uppity about it.
The general approach of putting together your website on one machine, the coding machine, and publishing it to your server is one I use, although I prefer a complex build on my design machine and then rsync it with the server.

Checkout Chronicle (http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/chronicle/). I've put up a HN thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186798).
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The predecessor to the Internet in the UK in the 1980s - JANET - worked like this:

For example, the University of Cambridge had the NRS name UK.AC.CAM, whereas its DNS domain is cam.ac.uk. All NRS names had both a standard (long) and abbreviated (up to 18 characters) form. For example, UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE was the less widely used standard equivalent of the abbreviated name UK.AC.CAM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
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Somehow this reminds me of the story that the length of audio CDs was chosen so that Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 would fit onto one CD (see for example http://www.snopes.com/music/media/cdlength.asp )
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Mr. Hillebrand is not a rich man, although given that the text message is a number 1 overpriced product (http://www.walletpop.com/2010/09/27/10-most-overpriced-produ...) it seems that his work has made huge amounts of money for the others.
Yes, their ad was in the same tone as their email copy. But the demographic is totally different.

Being easygoing and joking around can sound callous when people are just starting to get to know you.
Could you elaborate a little on how matching fonts are chosen? I see delta-VAR and delta-RLW but what do these mean?
When I try to view the site, a blog comment field popups and takes over the entire page, with no method of dismissing it: http://screencast.com/t/IwfGfxcSsZG4
Personally, I've always used Jhead for this. It is available for Unix and Windows, and I also use it to rename my photos.

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
> I think bicycles are plain fun. I ride my bicycle to work whenever I can.

I would do the same, if only we'd have a decent shower at our workplace, so that I won't smell all day after a bike-ride from home. Nevertheless, I can't wait for this winter to be finally over so that I can take my bike for photo-taking rides outside the city I live in. (if it matters, I'm a fellow (East-)European whose city doesn't have that many bike-lines, but it doesn't matter anyway, cause I've first ridden a bike on a national road at age 12, so nothing scares me :) ).
Is that true? I’m sure it is nowadays, but I remember getting a phone upgrade (from a previous GSM phone) that had this ability.
Not to mention that your mom is far more valuable from an ad revenue perspective. Chances are you've never clicked on ads displayed on TechCrunch.
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Please DON'T use geolocation to guess the language. Use accept-language.

Except for people living in Germany who prefer English there are plenty of people living close to Germany who may receive the german version of the site as well.
Ubiquitous internet is decades away. You don't have to wander far off the beaten track for SMS to be the only viable form of mobile communication. SMS is great in that it works in places where the signal is too weak for phone calls. Also sending an SMS is a good order of magnitute cheaper than sending an email when roaming.
I made something somewhat similar a few years back because I thought it was something that I would use. I did not follow through, but I'm glad you did. I think there's a lot to be done with this. Good luck!
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Great project. Is it possible to include the best time of the day to visit, e.g. "quiet on Wednesday mornings"? Also: Do you adjust for longer opening times? Maybe some venues close sooner on some days.
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I can't comment, but I can tell you that I currently regret having spent the last 3.5 years of my life in one of the top engineering programs in the world (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). If this is considered "education" these days, count me out. I can honestly learn more on Wikipedia and Hacker News. What a waste of $100,000.
I think Apple is working on this problem. The newest version of Mac/iPad app store already has an indicator when you bought an app IIRC.
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Good to know, I withdraw my objection about folding :)

Still, they are not electric and cost around 1400$

EDIT: This video shows how to fold/unfold one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNnOdoUn3kg . I'm sold!
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Licenses of open source projects warrant that the work can be used, modified and even forked by anyone. Similarity seems only superficial.
> I have not seen any electric bicycle that offered any real advantage to a normal muscle-operated one.

Some people don't have showering facilities at work, or do not want to carry a change of clothes with them. An electric bike is less likely to produce a stinky cyclist.
> actual people on the graph (not one person scaling)

yeah I couldn't find an image which showed exactly what I meant, but yes, that is what I had in mind.

Although you seem to be suggesting that you should be able to get a literal exact count of the people. I think that that won't be possible or useful because the data is aggregated over several timepoints. I guess "on mondays, approx 10 people visit" might be useful, but I see this graph as more of a general indicator of how busy a place generally is.

Using a repeating image of little stick people will hint to users that the bars represent visitor volume.
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My beautiful wife took me on a date to the State Library, where we looked up my name and saw my entry as 'author'. That was the big buzz for me (although I did like walking into a book store, having given away all of my copies, and seeing my book on sale for 1/3 price. I bought 3.)
His second reply on the thread sounds even more like he's holding the account hostage:

http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/Hudson-Dev-Can-I-get-my-...
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This is the correct reason for the turbo buttons. Most of the program delays (especially in games) was done inside really basic things like

// Delay
for(int i = 0; i <= 10000; i++)
{
// Do nothing
}

This was a bad way of putting delays in the game / program.

I remember when I was young, getting about 10 386 computers and mounting them on the wall of my bedroom (being young and obcessed with star trek, I wanted to turn my room into a borg cube) .. I wrote programs that used the parallel port to flash big arrays LED's on and off. Being young, I didn't know how to do timing properly on these machines so I used FOR loops like the one above for delays ... the Turbo button allowed me to half the speed of the faster machines while running the same code on all of them.

p.s. The unfortunate side effect of putting 'tight' loops of code in your program as delays meant that the processors got very hot very quickly (this was back when processors didn't necessarily have fans on them). I ended up being ordered to de-construct my borg bedroom when the wallpaper set fire after a chip got hot!
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Benjamin Franklin invested a today-equivalent of $4444 in his time, for the states' use 200 years later.

http://eh.net/book_reviews/benjamin-franklin-and-invention-m...
I found the following AppHub forum posts where some developers talk about their sales/download/trial numbers http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/69061.aspx (in early to mid Dec most devs were posting numbers < 100. The highest I saw was the Farseer games guy(s) that had ~1K). Some free games were > 10K.
I see electric bicycles as a tool to help people build a bit of exercise into their daily commute. I'm all for that. I'm a bit leery of devices like this, which help people build no exercise at all into their daily commute.
Could you add a favicon? Thank you for the great work!
Are you behind a compressing proxy (e.g. Opera Turbo)?
It seems horribly unsafe in case of an accident. Sure, 15mph is turtle speed when it comes to bicycles (disclosure: I've been racing road bicycles for five years) but you can still get hurt pretty horribly if you fly out of that thing. There's no frame/hand compression to stop you.

Also, it doesn't look like a bicycle, at least compared to something in the similar price range: http://www.londoncyclesport.com/Assets/LondonCycleSport+Digi...
I agree. Anytime I use a CSS hack it makes me feel dirty. An IE specific stylesheet is an unfortunate necessity, but there seems to be a cottage industry of people using browser-specific hacks for everything. It feels like it goes against the whole spirit the CSS standard. Maybe it is a case of just getting the job done, and being forced into nasty hacks by a half-dozen browsers implementers who are supporting different parts of the standards on their own schedule.
Just tried it out with Opera Turbo enabled: both pictures have a similar moiree-like pattern, with "VOID" on neither.
Hoisted from that page's comments:

However, due to the nature of the publications today, nobody is going to be honest and say: "You know what, we really thought that this advanced technique was going to be better. We tried our best, as you can see, but the improvement is really tiny."
There should be some credible way of reporting negative findings, which are surprising.

There are journals, such as the Journal of Negative Results (http://www.jnr-eeb.org/index.php/jnr) for ecology, that do try to fill this gap. But they don't have the same impact value.

This is fair enough, up to a point: you should be aiming for results that will change the field.
WOW! I found only one error. How many were there?
I'm surprised that Printer Ink Cartridges don't appear on that list.
10x revenues... what's their profit margin I wonder. For this to be a decent buy they must 50% at least.
That looks like a bug, I've created a ticket for this issue: https://github.com/Treesaver/treesaver/issues#issue/147

Thanks for catching and reporting it.
As a matter of fact, bicycles are one of the oldest and most refined technologies available to us.

Bicycles can hardly be considered an old technology. While Da Vinci had already sketched some designs in the late 15th century [1], the first prototypes could not be built before the early 19th century.

The first recognizable version of the current chain-driven models was only produced in 1885. [2]

The chain-driven bicycle is not as simple as it looks.

[1] http://www.ltolman.org/davinci.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycles
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I am writing from memory, but I think the writer of this piece had in mind the following Milton Friedman anecdote: When told there was almost no crime in quasi-socialist Nordic countries, Friedman retorted (I paraphrase) "ah, but we have almost no crime among Nordic-Americans".
Particularly ironic since he uses a .si domain!
See: http://no-www.org/
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Very nice. For extra whizzyness you should ajaxify it so you can use raphael's lovely animation in place of page transitions, like http://populationpyramid.net/
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Agreed. I would much rather have a normal, folding bike. However, I have to admit that these guys got the folding part right. I think folding bike design hasn't really progressed much over the years. People rave about Brompton bikes, but I am not impressed by how they fold, what they fold into, or their weight.

And while I would not pay the exorbitant price for this thing, I would gladly pay a significant amount of money for a modern folding bike. Say, with a carbon fiber frame instead of a steel one.
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How is this not receiving upvotes and getting substantial discussion? It's well written, constructive, and extensively referenced. I've bookmarked it for re-skimming regularly to try to help me overcome my chronic procrastination problem.

Maybe it's just the novelty, but it's already helped me today.
The more I think about it, the more the 6-mile range sounds like a crippling flaw. Hills and headwinds will presumably knock this around, but that aside, there's just so little room for error. Forget to charge, make a short detour to buy groceries and there you are walking home with a bag full of perishables and an immobile chunk of carbon fibre.

Nice to see some attention paid to lighting though. It's an important issue for commuter bikes, and one that doesn't seem to get as much attention as it should.
Hey ComputerGuru, just so you know: I get it.

On behalf of your millions of users who don't say very much but rely on it daily, I'd like to say a heartfelt thank you and reaffirm that you're perfectly entitled to do exactly as you please with your own software.

Bear in mind this is an entrepeneurial forum, so many here are focussed on trying to monetising something that delivers value (nothing wrong with that). You've done the hard part and they can't see why you don't take it further.
He decided that inotify wasn't worth it for his purposes.

> I had originally intended to make Ninja be memory-resident and to use inotify to keep the build state hot at all times. But upon writing the code I found it was fast enough to run from scratch each time. Perhaps a slower computer would still benefit from inotify; the data structures are set up such that using inotify shouldn’t be hard.
Looks nice but sliding pages back and forth is really jerky on a iPad.
Interesting project through, especially for slate devices for which the navigation is pretty natural.
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very true. But I also guarantee that there will be price cuts almost right after release, much like the galaxy tab, let alone a few months after its release when the 2nd ipad is available.
>Using a repeating image of little stick people will hint to users that the bars represent visitor volume.

This is a very good idea. Unfortunately his bars are vectors drawn with SVG, I don't think it allows background images.

Another, perhaps not as clear suggestion would be to simply add a "Smaller bars mean less busy" message under the graph, like you see on performance benchmarks.
I agree with you. My point was that in http://blog.pedro.si/why-not-forget-about-top-level-domains-... the "www" is present in the example, yet the focus is on the "com". I am curious to understand the though process that directed focus to eliminating "com" before "www"
Here is part of what the Wikipedia article has to say, which appears to show that the size limits were indeed the result of the existing design, and so the only 'proof' here was that the existing amount of data would be sufficient for the intended purpose. Which makes the linked article another example of the mainstream press getting themselves all confused when it comes to cause and effect in technology. A key sentence in the Wikipedia article was that SMS, so limited, could be implemented with software changes only, making its rollout by far easier and more likely to occur. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS:

"The innovation in SMS is Short. The GSM is optimized for telephony, since this was identified as its main application. The key idea for SMS was to use this telephony-optimized system, and to transport messages on the signaling paths needed to control the telephony traffic during time periods when no signaling traffic existed. In this way, unused resources in the system could be used to transport messages at minimal cost. However, it was necessary to limit the length of the messages to 128 bytes (later improved to 140 bytes, or 160 seven-bit characters) so that the messages could fit into the existing signaling formats.

This concept allowed SMS to be implemented in every mobile station by updating its software. This concept was instrumental for the implementation of SMS in every mobile station ever produced and in every network from early days. Hence, a large base of SMS capable terminals and networks existed when the users began to utilize the SMS."
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Seems to be down for me...
But you are not a customer since you don't pay for the service, you are a user - so it's user support, not customer support.

The customers are the people/companies who buy ads to finance Facebook.

Why would they bother that much with the user's problems - it's not like you can easily quit anyway.
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I want to scratch something to death. Someone QUICK, port Stylebot to FireFox so I can remove that awful static sidebar! (Otherwise it looks fine!)
I agree that the number of available devices is not sufficient in order to make solid conclusions about the marketplace potential. When do think Windows Phone will have 20+ million devices in use ?