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A similar thing happens with TVs in electrical appliance stores. Brighter pictures are more appealing to the average viewer, so the stores bump up the brightness setting on the more expensive TVs.

They can pull tricks like this because most people don't care that much about whether their chosen product is better according to some objective measurement. Rather, they care about getting a good deal and being made to feel happy about their purchase.

Unfortunately for Sennheiser, high-end audio customers are probably one group who do care about buying something objectively better. News like this risks hurting their target market substantially, I'd say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)

Attention is a scarce resource. Acting like a fool is correlated with actually being a fool. People are less likely to take a comment seriously when a cursory examination suggests that it's a waste of space. Maybe that's not the way it should be, but that's the way it is.
>...when will there finally be enough political momentum behind ending it?

I keep thinking next year... next year... but the reality is as people get older and have kids they start to view any sort of recreational drug as a threat to little Johnny. So that pot-head you knew in college? He's voting against every attempt to soften drug laws.
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I thought your number was quite mindblowing but then I worked out that 70000 hours is about 8 years if you were there constantly, 24/7.. 90000 waking hours is over 15 years.

I worked it out at around 15-18k hours (depending on where you live and variations in school day length).
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I second on #3. There should be a quick link to log in and remove reminders.

Also very curious, what is the monetization strategy here.
Could you recommend a good cheap pair of over the ear headphones to a non audiophile like me?
Google bets $20K that Chrome can’t be hacked
Well I think we have a very hard work to win that notebook and the prize of $20.000. But maybe Charlie Miller would do it before. What do you think about this? It is possible to hack Google Chrome?

I think: Impossible is nothing
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> And it was far less an important part of the user experience at that time

I don't think that's necessarily true. The browser was an extremely important part of the user experience, but 2 things happened: 1) MS stopped developing IE which allowed Mozilla and Apple to leap frog MS in terms of user experience, and 2) the iPod came along which became a gateway drug to Macs and helped Apple become what it is today.

However the 90's Apple/today's Nokia analogy only fits if Nokia has something outside of phones that it can use to grow it's business. It remains to be seen if that's the case.

There's also the problem that Apple became more insular in terms of developing the whole widget and making sure it wasn't dependent (as much as it could) on ISVs while Nokia seems to be going in the exact opposite direction.
This was a period when you could support a family and live a comfortable middle-class existence while working on an assembly line. It wasn't a question of the education, just much less global competition.
I mean, I'd like you to explain to me how an ice core from one specific location could give you an accurate reading on the global climate?

The properties of the ice and the recrystallized inclusions within the
ice can then be used to reconstruct a climatic record over the age range
of the core, normally through isotopic analysis.

Ice cores can provide climate information such as soot in the atmosphere and CO2 levels but it can only give you information on the specific location it was taken from.

The variety of climatic proxies is greater than in any
other natural recorder of climate, such as tree rings or
sediment layers. These include (proxies for) temperature,
ocean volume, precipitation, chemistry and gas composition
of the lower atmosphere, volcanic eruptions, solar
variability, sea-surface productivity, desert extent and
forest fires.

Just because you read something on Wikipedia doesn't make it true.

See, I'm not a climate scientist. Neither do I believe everything I read on wikipedia. But the article has plenty links and references to suggest there are many institutions and universities involved with this kind of research.

Sure, it could all be one big conspiracy. But somehow I find it easier to believe that you're just too lazy to read.
Google doesn't have to charge for Android. They will make $10 per user from mobile ads alone, according to a recent report.
For me, too often, it works the other way. I try to use it as a search box, but if I type in a phrase and hit return (as I'm accustomed to do with search boxes elsewhere), it instead tries to add a question. I wind up having to use the arrow keys to select something else in order to make it do a search.

(This is with Ubuntu Lucid's stock FF3 on Linux, if it matters.)
I'd easily pay that if there were a similar thing nearby (I'm in deepest Lincolnshire). I'd be paying £400-500 per month for a small office around here. Plus VAT. Plus rates..
There are quite a few! ;-) There's a thriving tech community across the north, e.g.: http://geekup.org/

We even have a nice (but still small) group over here in Lincs, the true tech deadzone..
I have to disagree. Some very intelligent people struggle with writing.

I can understand skipping a comment over poor grammar. But if you are going to vote, I think you ought to consider the content over the form.
Sounds like NASA, constantly in limbo because of political disagreement. What's the public line though on wanting to cut money from renewable energy, one of the targeted for being "more efficient" in funding?
I think #3 is the sticking point. I can read it, but a lifetime of reading has trained me to use capitalization past a period and space as a prompt to some sort of change. The lack of it makes a paragraph read like an unbroken sentence to me.

It slows me down considerably.

I'm not defending or agreeing with the complaint, just trying to find the reasoning behind one of the positions. I think people should step back and see what's actually bothering them about the writing (or if there's anything fundamentally bothersome at all).
Yes! I just launched this (quietly): http://domainjig.com to provide related suggestions and check availability, both instantly. I'll be announcing it here (and elsewhere) soon.
In the mean time, any comments/suggestions are appreciated.
Conjunctured already filled up their main space and since expanded to another location. The people I know there love it and many would give up their apartment before they gave up their co-working space.

This should definitely be your first stop.
Doesn't seem like a business; more of a web app.

But maybe a small ad at the bottom of each e-mail?
I agree about getting too involved in the responses. We are strange creatures. :)
By jailbreaking iOS, one can significantly improve the notification experience by installing LockInfo and enabling its InfoShade option. Obviously this is far from a perfect or complete solution, but it's a step forward in the right direction.
I don't think you'd see a Japanese caught dead using one of China's simplified characters like 让!

The character you picked for "hash" (井) was cute, but the actual word used in Japanese is "ハッシュ".

You're welcome.
What about:

"What do you think about Google?"
I've relocated around the US many times but never outside of the US so take that however you will. I don't really think much about all the variables. I just moved. I felt the new location was always better for my growth and business and at the time I made the decision, that was all that mattered. Everything else, culture, friends, etc... would fall into place on it's own. Of course everyone is different and their situation is different. Without knowing much more than what you've provided and not knowing you personally, I can say I can personally recommend more or less to your checklist other than to have you ask yourself, do you like the idea of this move, do you feel this is good for your career, and is it something you want to experience. If the answer is more yes than no, you can always give it a try and if things don't work out, ask in advance before the move if you could ever go back.
conversational tone signals that he just wrote a one-off sentence. more formal tone signals that his thoughts were revised and thought through.
This is wonderful to get back to a thread and read new comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imeeonmdbakdmilnnc...
As usual, stating the obvious here, it's a cheap way for them to find security holes.
"As for speaking English as a second language: Stating up front "please forgive my English" seems to work pretty well to smooth things over for some members here."

This isn't my discussion and so I apologize for potentially butting in, but being an ESL speaker myself it bothers me a bit to see ESL writers apologize for their English. I'm not sure if this is unique to those who are ESL themselves, but I find distinguishing between an ESL writer and a sloppy native writer trivial. If it's at a point where it causes problems communicating, we'll know it's because English isn't your first language, and we know the writer would rather not make these mistakes - no need to apologize.

As for conveying sarcasm in short posts on the internet, the difficulty is far from limited to ESL writers.
In terms of the points cited in the article, there's not that much difference between BigCorp and a SME. Both would pay similar salaries and have stable long-term roles for engineers, which I think were the author's points.
Or maybe better yet, the ways that they kept floppies from being double sided?
It is odd that you're demonizing Malcolm X and Steve Sailer, while refusing to address their arguments. Apparently they are "clumsy," "racist," and "grotesque," producing "simplifications" and a "non-sequitur." But in the time it took you to tell me all about the hypothetical explanations for the data you refuse to believe but even more ardently refuse to check ("My dog didn't bite you, it's not my dog, and what do you have against bulldogs, mister?"), you could have, well, fact-checked Sailer's claims.

It is striking that you've mustered so much rhetoric about conclusions in order to avoid looking at the facts behind those conclusions. It is a little like preachers talking up hellfire when someone questions the 6,000-year-old-earth thing.
For a site like Quora though, I believe that things should be obvious enough that instructions aren't needed. They're not there yet, but that's what they should be aiming for.
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Thanks a lot for that answer.

I guess moving inside of the US (albeit between states) is still not that bad: Same language, same currency, roughly the same laws etc.. I would do that in an instant. Sure, it might disrupt the social life, but good connections are going to stay or they weren't worth the investment in the first place.

Can I get back? Sure. But the offer contains a binding clause (and that makes sense, of course, for the company) that says that I need to be there 1-2 years minimum (contract is still in flux). Not that this is a lot..
I completely agree that price is a function of perceived value. However, this scenario smells like they are misleading consumers in a legally grey area.
This somewhat reminds me of the case a few years back about the scam of daily contact lenses. Basically it was revealed that the daily contact lenses from Bausch & Lomb and Johnson & Johnson were exactly the same as the weekly/monthly disposables which pissed a lot of people off and got them sued.
Not sure but wasn't there a recent backlash about processors being crippled and then "unlocked" for higher power if they paid additional fees?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-357082/Contact-len...
I think of Lisp not as a concrete programming language as but essence of programming itself.

I think that main feature of Lisp - Lisp is "syntaxless". And I mean not CL or Scheme or Clojure. I mean some "abstract Lisp"

But syntax sugar is not so bad in itself - you can treat python and javascript as versions of "infix scheme", you can treat java as horrible lisp-macros library, you can treat Perl as especially horrible Lisp with some funny inclusions.

I think that Lisp is a start of the road, not the end
Either I'm too lazy to read or you're too dumb to realize what the word "extrapolate" means. Here's a quote for you...

In mathematics, extrapolation is the process of constructing new data points outside a discrete set of known data points.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/extrapolate

When you're taking other information and trying to combine it to reconstruct a climate history that's extrapolation. That means you don't have an actual record and you're making an educated guess as to how other factors might be combined to provide you that missing record.

And again you haven't answered my most basic question. If you could get an accurate reading on the global temperature from one location than why do we bother with all the weather stations?
Are you serious?

"I've learned more from the community than I did during my $100,000 MBA from the University of Chicago."

You weren't out meeting people and making awesome connections?

You didn't build relationships with the brilliant professors?

I am shocked by the content of your post.

What have you learned on Hacker News? And then what did you learn at Booth?

I would pay to read that write-up.
Good luck with your StartMate funding, this looks really promising. Can't wait to give the beta a go.
did you not get an invite?
some good examples here: http://qr.ae/FBsB
That's absolutely brillant! Thanks for the link. So funny when the father rips the shirt of his son and discovers his 'I love Java' tattoo ;-)
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"See, I'm not a climate scientist. Neither do I believe everything I read on wikipedia. But the article has plenty links and references to suggest there are many institutions and universities involved with this kind of research.
Sure, it could all be one big conspiracy. But somehow I find it easier to believe that you're just too lazy to read."

Or maybe he raised a point that is eluding you because you don't understand the science. His claim is not that there are no institutions looking at ice cores, and the text you quoted actually lends support to his argument.
The pseudo-intellectualism that permeates this board is a little appalling. I can certainly assure you that C-level executives across Silicon Valley backed by the strongest VCs and beyond write in a much less formal manner than most people on HN. Nothing wrong with that.
Yeah, I've been cleaning the fingerprint marks off my iPad for months and never thought to look for patterns. What an interesting study it makes!

In terms of other apps, Cut the Rope would probably have some interesting smudge marks, depending on which levels you play.
This is classic market segmentation. The R&D costs are sunk, the marginal cost is low, there's only so many people who will buy the things for $350. If only we could sell some for $150 without pissing off the people who paid $350 or doing a whole new R&D cycle, there's lots of people who'd buy them for $150.

The real question that they should be asking is should they have just sold them all for $150 and not risked the bad PR? They may have sold enough at the lower price for it to come out a wash, and not be embarrassed by something like this.
> However, spinning it off (as some are suggesting in the comment thread) has major difficulties. In particular, since buying Trolltech, Nokia has LGPLed Qt. That seems to me to drastically change the situation for prospective commercial licensing, as companies can ship commercial, proprietary products with Qt without paying licensing fees. How would Trolltech 2.0 make money?

The business model would have to be different, that much is true. But where does the funding come from now for GTK+ for instance? Or the Linux kernel?

There are enough Qt-using companies out there that maintaining and improving Qt should not be an issue if it is divested from Nokia. The concern would be making sure there is a neutral platform for the companies that contribute.
My relationship with Hacker News is also much like this.

I have made exactly three comments before this one, and they were almost a year ago. If not for those, I might not have even created an account here. I just have the type of personality that enjoys taking in knowledge more than discussing it.

My account at Less Wrong is similarly neglected. I often wonder how many others (on both sites) do what I do.
College student here, working on a startup. I've actually gone part-time on classes to work on my project full-time.
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"LATEST BUZZ
Of all the different bug trackers out there, this is definitely one of them."

Is that actually saying anything substantial? Maybe it's in jest, in which case I do find it humourous, but if not, it's not necessarily a compliment, is it?
Disregarding the hack, with Koss I would even go more expensive if you can as you get lifetime warranty, replacements, and upgrades if the old model is gone. It's easier if you live near Milwaukee as you can just drop them off, but you can mail them too. I have these ones: http://www.amazon.com/Koss-Pro4AAT-Titanium-Pro-Headphones/d...
No that's meant to be humorous since we don't actually have any testimonials as yet. Both testimonials are from myself and alan (the co-founders)

There's a few little random geek references I've thrown in on different pages just for fun :)
The rest of us are not Fred Wilson.
I believe he's doing exactly what he wanted to do. He had both houses and could have reversed the TSA, cancelled the PATRIOT act, closed guantanimo, ended warrantless wiretapping and spying on americans, etc. But he has done the opposite.

I am curious why you think that he would do better if he got re-elected?
Education should be a basic human right!
been thinking about this for a while myself. Another option we had in mind was "Find your next project, fast."
It's not humorous, it actually bothered me. If you don't have testimonials, don't have a "testimonials" section!

On a more helpful note: where are the screenshots?
A link to the 'print version' of the page: the whole article on one page without the incredible clutter and cruft that the New York Post splashes all over its site:

http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/th...
In Japanese, you can mix word order freely as well---nouns are marked with particles ("ha" = topic marker; "wo" subject; etc etc). You can think of it as the nouns being declined, but with the declensions being completely regular.

These sentnces all mean the same thing ("Jim ate an apple"):
Jim-ha ringo-wo tabeta.
Tabeta ringo-wo Jim-ha.
Ringo-wo tabeta Jim-ha.
Jim-ha tabeta ringo-wo.
Ringo-wo Jim-ha tabeta.
Tabeta Jim-ha ringo-wo.

However, putting the sentences in a non-SOV order changes which which get emphasized (the same thing happens in Latin and Greek, which were also both verb-final languages by default). The SVO form of the sentence is the most neutral, plainly informative version of the sentence.
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> So Nokia becomes Microsoft's RIM.

This would have been a good point – and certainly so if this had happened even just a couple of years ago.

But it didn't, and business has begun to adopt the iPhone and even Android devices because of the large gap in the market, and because Apple & Google are driving devices that people actually want to use outside of business too.
All kids are different. Some will eagerly jump into new things, others need some gentle prodding from their parents to get started. Even curious kids sometimes need a suggestion for what to play with on a rainy day.
Nowhere did I say or imply that, I simply said there are quite a few people who won't read sloppy writing; that's a simple statement of fact. If you want to be read by the widest audience, then consider the reader rather than what's easiest for you.
The real point is that blog posts like this make your company look bad. Consumers are fine with you jacking up the price so that the cost of production and R&D isn't significant, but if you do anything to intentionally make a product worse then people will really get riled up, as it looks like you're intentionally destroying value.
Hotswap of running Java code has been available since Java 1.4. You can use it through a Java debugger and you can attach a debugger to any running process in the JVM.
Apologies, meant no offence. There's a demo video on the front page and some screenshots on the about page on the right hand side.
Then he's being lazy, but if you look at his blog, he most certainly does.
I don't think anybody at Hacker News really begrudges your leisurely writing practices. However, it seems like you feel entitled to have your opinions treated equally despite the fact that you are presenting them differently. This is probably why many of your comments are getting downvoted. I am sure that you and posters such as frevd are cool, intelligent dudes; but most members of the HN community value conventional writing style. It's not in the guidelines because it is something that comes from the members of the community themselves. By intentionally eschewing the rules of writing, you are signalling to the community that you are not willing to "meet them in the middle", so to speak.

If the majority of HN posters did not care about writing style, this situation would be reversed. But, c'est la vie.
I agree that the capitalization is a bit of a problem for the root, but at the same time I think SamReidHughes's reply was a vast overreaction. Looking back through the OP's comments per SamReidHughes's reference I agree they're not necessarily up to the HN prose standard but still nothing to go ballistic about.
The problem is that customers don't understand the possibilities well enough to pay on commission. Right now, software companies are forced to dump a ton of money into a product, and then use the finished product itself to educate users of the benefit of the product, at which point they can begin selling it.

In a "well functioning market" buyers would be aware of what sort of product could be built with what sort of development time, and would pay for the work. (I think this is what's happening with Minecraft - the people who bought the Alpha see themselves as funding its development).

My take on it, anyways.
If professors knew what business ideas would succeed and which would fail then they'd be investing instead of teaching.

It's not ideas that succeed or fail, but founders.
Some people here are quite anal about grammar and spelling and do not seem to readily infer that someone is an ESL speaker. I come from a bicultural/bilingual home. English is my native language but I also am prone to imposing German-isms (for lack of a better word) onto my writing, especially when tired. I do this in spite of not growing up knowing much German. I'm generally pretty tolerant of individual quirks and of the acclimation process new people go through. Lots of people are not. I basically agree with you that they shouldn't need to apologize/explain but in some instances it does seem to help smooth things over.

Peace.
I got the invite and registered the applications etc, just haven't had the time to copy in the script and give it a red-hot go yet.
Are you serious? Have you worked in a board room at a Fortune 500 company? Most CEOs and executives don't have time to compose grammatically-error-free responses. Do you know how Steve Jobs writes? Now multiply that across 500 organizations of the biggest corporations in America and the shoddy writing will certainly shock you if you think "people are less likely to take a comment seriously" because their sentences aren't grammatically-correct. Calling someone a fool because they write differently from you is absurd. Ad hominem attacks don't belong on HN.