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Here are some edits that are not humorous, but would actually improve the DNA:

https://github.com/cariaso/dna

These edits were proposed by Michael Cariaso, whom I met recently. Mike runs a cool site called http://snpedia.com.

SNPedia is like 23andme, except every night SNPedia reads PubMed abstracts to see if it can determine information about more SNPs. So, I believe it now gives information on 10x as many SNPs as 23andme, because it groks a lot more medical research.

SNPedia has a mode where you do not even need to upload your data to them, instead you simply download the program and run it locally. But, regardless, you need to get your DNA, and 23andme is the cheapest option for doing so.
I agree. If I feel I can add something of value to the discussion, including occasional humor, I'll chime in.

I call it the Mr. Ed principle.
It's a tradeoff. Otherwise, you would have spammers commenting on all new posts.

Sometimes I do see golden comments stuck at the bottom because the poster was late to comment. It's bad but there really is no easy fix.

It's up to the community to upvote all quality comments (and submissions)...even if that means having to scroll to the bottom of the post to find great comments.

Like pretty much everything else in life, the system isn't perfect. I'm sure PG would listen if you have a better way of implementing comments.
I've been using Crowdbooster for an event we're using, and its awesome to see how our social media marketing is working. Love it!
I don't know if this is still the case, but Catholics were the single largest religious group at the University of Chicago when I was there in the late 90's.
Hmmm, didn't there use to be info about their node.js support? Trying to figure out the current status and how to mess around with it.
SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com/whyspideroak#privacy) might work for you.
I don't really think he would, it's just a vague hope that maybe he'll remember he has a soul or something and actually try to be what he portrays himself as instead of a politically motivated con man. Maybe it's possible he'll come around. I feel like Egypt has changed him in some way. He actually took a minor stand against the establishment. It was timid, but first steps often are.
Keith Rusler, from comments section of the article: "I have to say, Nokia made a bad decision jumping to WP7 knowing that Qt wouldn’t be on it. Now that Nokia did this, they basically went from Qt “Code once, run everywhere” to “Code once, run nowhere”."

Nokia needs to sell Trolltech NOW. The apparent conflict of interest is too great regardless of what the real conflict of interest might be.

And I, like most Qt programmers, don't know what the real level of conflict-of-interest level is. But if I've learned one thing in the corporate world, it's that appearances matter. The appearance that Nokia wants to kill Qt is enough to screw-up a lot of decisions.

Otherwise, KDE should take steps to force an Apache release of QT source. Better now than later. See: http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...
Yeah we really badly wanted to move away from using screenshots as a means of capturing bug data for a few different reasons (different browser renderings, needing to constantly capture new screens when layouts change, etc...)

Also we wanted to ensure that there were no dependencies on a particular browser or operating system so we decided the best route for us would be an embeddable widget.
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I used boomerang
Current student in NYC, building a bootstrapped SaaS application.

Would love to see more stuff coming from students on HN, rather then reading for x time about funding, viral social mashup pseudo startups and top 10 lists... of things to do and not to do...
my point was the market determines the value of their services. as such, consumer feelings about what is "fair" may be misguided. I say 'may' because certain issues like, say, the value of healthcare, are too complex for me to judge.
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They initially recruited some really good (especially for social networks) "experts" who made the content a cut well above your run of the mill social Q&A site.

Early adopters were intrigued by this early high-quality community. "Less early" adopters were in turn attracted by the (still) high-quality content; this group was followed by people like me, who have seen the site's quality gradually decline. Heaven help the people who have followed me onto Quora, much less the people who will follow them... :)
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Against popular belief, concepts can be understood without learning the nitty-gritty mechanics.

I disagree. The problem is that you don't know that you understand a concept until you actually can apply your conceptual understanding to accomplish something. The world is full of people who "understand" quantum mechanics or relativity in terms of half-baked analogies and are unable to apply those concepts to anything but pseudo-scientific discussions.

Real conceptual understanding comes form having worked with the subject area enough that you have built your own conceptual framework. You can't really just teach someone a conceptual framework, because the words you use to describe your framework will likely be interpreted in a completely different way by someone else.
The "why" question wasn't answered in the actual article.

It was a reasonable debunking of a deplorable TC article, but I was really interested in the difference in mindset.
There's clearly people willing to pay the full price for the 595. If there wasn't, they would have cut the price already since it takes almost no effort to do so. People pay for the perceived value of the product, not the value of the underlying costs plus some margin.

Pricing based on cost is irrelevant because that has nothing to do with the value created or what people are willing to pay. E.g., why did Sony and MS sell the PS3 and 360 below cost for so long? Well, no one would have paid the $1000 plus margin that Sony would have needed.

On the other end, do you really think that bottle of Coke you buy is priced anywhere based on the cost of manufacturing? The ingredients in that cost about $0.02, but they charge $1 at the store. The 20oz bottle has maybe an extra couple cents of cost, but they charge twice as much.

To your point, Ask could have 5% share of volume, but if their ad platform was better to the point that they could charge 10x what Google could, they would be doing pretty well.
In this case it does cost less to produce since they don't have to develop a new product and setup separate manufacturing processes. That piece of foam saves a lot of money.
That made me laugh. But people doing cool things with Perl are not that interested in public opinion. Perhaps to a fault but I consider it a positive.
I can also provide the binaries for analysis if you so desire
Australian Bank does service with a :)
I would find this more plausible if my Samsung Android devices were

a) regularly updated with Android tech as opposed to seemingly lagging the rest of the industry

b) supported worth a hill of beans instead of getting a "uhhhh we don't support that in the US market" when asking about AT&T

c) a good demonstration of Android capabilities in the first place.

Samsung makes decent phones. Nothing spectacular. The GPS in the Galaxy class phones draws endless complaints about bugginess. The builds deployed on AT&T are mediocre. Their Kies desktop software is bloated, slow, and unreliable - it's frequently the case that disconnecting and reconnecting the phone/tablet fails to recognize it (and in turn it doesn't work with a number of US SKUs, thanks to AT&T).

Sorry gang. There's the potential there to be great. But it's quite a leap from there to dominance. Nokia has had plenty of potential and in the past a pretty dominant position too, but I think the shellacking they took the last few days here on HN is entirely deserved and demonstrative of "you have to nail all facets of the user experience."
> Google Cone of Haste +3

Parsing it as a verb, I followed your instructions and this comment is already the top hit for "Cone of Haste" on Google.
Makes you wonder what Amazon pays Sennheiser for them. Amazon is not known for their super-low prices, after all.
What's the big deal, let them spy on us. We're no terrorists, let them violate our civil rights and lets turn a blind eye on this subject once and forever. 15 comments and you're getting nowhere fast. Did you hear? Lindsay Lohan stole a $2500 necklace!!! The world is a horrible place now.
I love the Quora UI.

Making the site hard for new users could even be seen as a feature. Keeps youtube/yahoo users away.
My issue with the formal academic training is that it teaches you to be an academic, not a practitioner. I feel that if you want to learn how to start a company, then start a company. If you want to become an academic, go to school. Now, I'm probably a rare case because I grew up in management consulting and have been an entrepreneur since I was 8 years old so I feel that it's not the education that's important, it's what you do with it that is.

To that end, I love seeing folks in this HN startup "tribe" have an idea that others may think is silly, pour their blood, sweat, and tears into and maybe it works out. Or maybe it doesn't.

I've always said, "we'll either all end up in a mansion or a cardboard box, but we'll have a blast along the way". That pretty much sums up what it means to be an entrepreneur to me. Meet like minded people trying to make the world a better place, and maybe make a little cash along the way.

So kudos to all of us kids playing around in the sandbox trying to create a bit of the future, today.
1. Trolltech was profitable when Nokia bought it.
2. Nokia could sell Trolltech/Qt. They justify their actions on the basis of needing some money. Selling Troll/Qt could bring in some money (let's exclude the small detail that MS wants QT dead, not sold...)
3. If KDE demanded the Qt source out of escrow, it would be one more black eye on the already nasty look Nokia, so Nokia might just let the Trolls go...
I've founded a few, would be happy to chat more about it and what you're working on offline :)
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How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its magic?
Hi there and thanks for the shout out! Unfortunately, I'm knee deep in my own startup these days but would love to chat offline anytime and throw ideas around. You can link through to my profile, feel free to shoot me an email.
Some people just don't want to make that step from doing to managing and in academia, as in many environments, the push is probably "up or out"

The triumph of that attitude is sinking the company I work for. The best technical people were elevated "above" the implementers, and we ended up sitting all day in meetings and writing documentation for lower-level workers. Luckily the crop of people who replaced us were as good or better, but it didn't take them long to recognize the "up or out" attitude. The company has made it clear that excellence in a hands-on position is a waste and will not be rewarded, and people taking non-hands-on positions find they are a horrible boring grind for people whose interests are technical. (Though you do feel important being in such demand for meetings.)

Now all the best people are choosing the "out" route. There seems to be a relationship between how smart they are and how fast they've left, and I'm starting to feel pretty dumb for staying.
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I just performed the mod. Was really easy and I hear an audible difference (even to my untrained, non-audiophile ears).

For the record, the practice does not offend me. This has been done for ages. R&D costs for creating the HD595's were no doubt great and to recoup some money they created a cheaper, crippled version. With headphones you aren't paying for the parts but for the engineering.
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This position assumes that dominance requires a base of greatness/nailing all the facets of user experience. While I wish it were true, I haven't really seen that play out.
Yeah, this is a disease. When I was in high school, I was essentially told that real programmers only used C++ and Java (since Real Programmers exist primarily to take the AP CS exam, right?) Looking back, I wasted a lot of time in programming contests that allowed any language allocating memory and dealing with shitty numeric types. If I had just used Haskell instead, I would have never had any problems. With C++, I often lost points not because of stupid bugs like calling two variables "i" or something.

Fortunately I figured this out right about when people started giving me money to write computer programs. But I wish someone had told me earlier.
Say "have dropped" and I agree...
Just as in Mike Elgan's analysis of Nokia, it doesn't look like Samsung have any idea how to create a sensible range of products. There are 18 touch screen phones available in the UK (out of 75 phones in total):

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/mobile-pho...

If I were King of Samsung, this would be cut down to around three models. The model names would be consistent, recognisable, and the names would not be discarded when the phones are updated. This way, when my Samsung Galaxy Pro is due for a replacement, I can go and ask for the latest generation Samsung Galaxy Pro. No need to spend ages trying to figure out which of the vast selection is supposed to be the flagship, or which is the budget model. The laptop situation is even worse. What's scary is how nobody but Apple seem to have figured this out.
This is a first post, on a dead-stock Wordpress.com installation.

Why should I bother to read about your views on Samsung when:

1. you show neither data nor other facts on which to base your opinion

2. you don't disclose anything about yourself?

For all I know you could be a Samsung employee trying to increase the value of his stock benefits.
I just saw a commercial for this game, and I got interested when I started thinking about how the architecture might work. How might the tiles communicate between each other? They all have to tell each other what letter is on the other tiles, then one of them (or all of them?) decides if its a valid word.
Thank you both for the additional insightful comments.

In my case, we were told the topic of salary adjustments will be discussed (so I suppose it will be more of a combination performance/salary review). So I should probably be prepared for a bit of negotiating.

Then, a month later, ask to see him. Now you're driving the conversation, and are much more likely to prevail. Don't worry if this isn't when annual raises are decided, those are for the "company driven" adjustment to your income. The "employee driven" ones come at any other time.

The distinction between "company driven" and "employee driven" adjustments is certainly important. However, given the company's reality, and my understanding of that reality, I'm not sure it's reasonable to have an "employee driven" discussion only a month after the "company driven" one. I'll have to give this more thought in the coming week as I attempt to formulate a strategy...
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The great thing about the internet is that people can express their point of views. If the idea is a good and interesting one it will be discussed. Think of it as an anonymous letter to the editor if you need.
According to Amazon, the HD595 is actually heavier by 10g than the HD555. Is the headband different?
The full quote, which I am posting under your article as you posted part of it first:

"Mr. McNealy: It's not the Valley. It's the overhead and the overhang, the clouds brought in by Sacramento and Washington, D.C., the regulations, the deficit and the misallocation of resources. It's all of those things. Obviously, I'm a believer in the private sector and in personal responsibility.

The biggest issues with the Valley are local, state and federal governmental overreach and overregulation. It's over-pensioned, over-unionized and over the top. "
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Not at all, it's worth negative $200.
When your aim is ubiquity, 18 models of the same basic product is a positive, not a negative. Apple and Samsung are playing entirely different games. Apple is built on brand and large profit margins, Samsung on controlling the components and being everywhere. They are equally valid plans, but Apple's way is more likely to win fans.
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[Tarsnap is] specifically written to be secure online backup.

Indeed -- which isn't quite the same thing as file sharing. Tarsnap is not designed to have archives uploaded from multiple sources.

you're not likely to be able to access them from a phone

FWIW, I was told recently that Tarsnap works on Maemo 5 + ARMv7... so it's very likely that Tarsnap can run on at least some phones.
also, News Flash: Rich ex-CEO Blames Regulators and Worker Unions for All The World's Problems
Warning: hydrocodone was well-tolerated by me, however I believe I incurred a small amount of ptosis (eyelid droop) as a result. If you take it, be on the lookout for the side effects.
Sounds good everyone.. We should get a separate section or mailing list going. I'm based in Boston if anyone wants to help set up a meetup around there or NYC next next weekend Feb 25th-28th
I think it's important to expose kids to programming, and if they show an interest, to explore it further.

It's possible I never would have become a coder if a teacher hadn't given me a brief intro to Basic when I was 11 years old. I took it from there, and was self-taught until college.

With my own son, I introduced him to Scratch, helped him through a few lessons, and then watched as it became his favorite thing to do. I really can't say enough about Scratch as an introduction to programming. It gives kids a simple environment where they see quick results while learning the basics. Just as important, there is a social aspect in that they can easily share their programs with their friends. There does, however, seem to be a need to bridge the gap between Scratch and traditional languages.
I almost never comment - it takes time and I am busy. I am doing another startup after having been on vacation for 8 years. How the world has changed! 8 years since I sold my
last business and I am learning all over. HN is a faucet of knowledge on turned on full boar. I have been reading and learning like crazy!
While this is really neat, the 595s also feature some nicer padding on the headband. Probably not enough for the price difference, but I just wanted to note that the piece of foam is not the only difference between the two.
Hmm. Software engineers get all pissy when some Pointy Head Boss tells them how to suck eggs because the IT guys are the experts and the marketdroids don't know what they're talking about... but when 90+% of climate scientists say that Global Warming is real and humans are a causal factor then ALL OF A SUDDEN, we're all climate experts and what would those pesky scientists know about it anyway.

You guys are really fucking arrogant. I'm ashamed to be associated with you.
It's interesting that I became so interested in programming when there wasn't anyone I knew or in my family that was into that area. My parent's still wouldn't have the slightest clue about programming and the only reason we really got computers and upgraded them early is because my grandpa was into them early (the usage side of things, not programming).

I guess what really sparked my interest was being able to make games, the programs like rpg maker that come with point and click programming languages, all come from that. So I think rather than focusing on the programming language side of it I would focus on the results with kids, if they can script a NPC walking around the map or script interactions/ map changes and stuff, even though it's only a few lines of quasi programming I think that inspires more than simple text based program learning with a text file that can feel daunting, to may possibilities, not enough hand holding.
The linkbait title doesn't help their case.
Yet, people still flock here to start companies. I reject the Republican slant of his statement.
Yahoo Answers.
Don't forget Rypple.
He still smiles.

And he should. He did a good job there.
One interesting competitor to Samsung is Vizio. While they only really have a presence in Home theater equipment, I find them to be very interesting. They are a completely new player. In a lot of ways they are similar to Hyundai. Hyundai essentially had no name brand or history to sell it's products. So they built the best car they could and sold it at a great price. The Hyundai Genesis was born. Now Hyundai is becoming more and more popular and is getting the credit they deserve. Vizio is similar. As a new player, it seems they just decided to make great products at affordable prices. In doing so, they have managed to keep up with huge companies like Sony and Samsung.

I would like to see a company like that enter the mobile market. Someone who makes a product that speaks for itself.
The problem is that in markets where goods are resalable, a very large portion of sales are fraudulent. Being out of country makes the fraud likelihood even higher. With paypal or mastercard payments, merchants have no protection because of chargebacks.

Basically, after a fraud/non delivery/stolen CC allegation CC companies and paypal will pull that money from the merchant's account and fully refund the customer pretty much immediately and without question. It's usually impossible or impractical to reverse that once it has happened, regardless of what evidence you have. Police will not investigate and the CC company won't hear your case.

I have had a client that personally delivered and item and got a signature. When the chargeback claim came (non delivery), he recorded a phone conversation with the recipient where she admitted (she was "tricked") to the fraud. The police told him (after a lot of badgering) that they get about 100X as many claims as they can investigate. Basically, for all but relatively high stakes cases, they just log the complaint and move on.

There really is no way for retailers to protect themselves.
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If you're the one with the money/power, you probably get a little leeway in your dress and writing.
If samsung operates their business units independently, and don't play favorites, then Apple can easily have the purchasing power with Samsung Displays the Samsung Phones has. However, if samsung plays a slightly dirtier game, then they risk losing Apple as a customer and can't sustain a competitive advantage in displays. Nobody buys an Apple phone for the Samsung memory or display. Likewise, no one will stop buying those items if Apple switches to a different vendor.
Is this decompiler output accurate? I'm suspicious because proc12 [¹] looks like memcpy, except it's advancing a byte at a time and copying an int at a time:

*(int*)local6 = *(int*)local5;
local5++;
local6++;

Either the memcpy code is strangely broken, or the decompiler is putting int * where it means char *.

[¹] See full code at https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/outpu... and same for proc20: https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/outpu...
Hmm. So on the "How long till you said "I love you"?" question I assume "other" is "exactly two years".

Otherwise the mind boggles :D
It's great, simple, elegant and gets the job done. The only issue I had was the missing pricing coupled with the 30 day trial thing. I think it would be great if you could mention somewhere that priced plans are coming soon.
prior discussion last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179433
As long as you realize that every time you take that ~5k for a patent you're selling a piece of your soul. Software patents are evil taking money from your employer when they file for one makes you complicit in the process.