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Why am I reviewing FAP Turbo? At Newfapturboreview.Com
A friend told me that their practice account was multiplying 30%-200% every week consistently. What they did was let Fap Turbo trade half of their practice account ($250) at IBFX every time. High risk in my opinion but this robot just kept multiplying their account week after week.
So, what sport creates the "best" looking athlete based on our society's standard? IMO, it would be soccer..?
Sorry the Littlecosm Alpha is now full.... :(
For their study to be valid in proving that exercise prolongs 'youthfulness' it requires that they be meeting the species normal exercise limits before expanding on them, otherwise they're actually performing a study on how sedentary lifestyles reduce youthfulness.

This is a scientific study that isn't being accurate about what it's even studying, which makes me instantly dubious of any of its results.
This is more true than most people realize. The web was inherently hard to regulate from the beginning because a given page could pull in assets from many different states and countries. So regulators basically gave up.

It's quite possible that with a different set of circumstances, the problems of spam, porn, black hat SEO, etc. would have triggered a regulatory response that would likely have massively slowed down the growth of the internet.

Imagine FDA-style, mandatory, centralized, single point of failure, pre-market review of every website for "safety" and "efficacy".

That's insane to contemplate, but a few high profile "Myspace child predator" scare stories at the beginning of the internet could very well have made it happen.

Even the very concept of pre-market review is strange to the internet. Here it's accepted that you launch and figure things out iteratively. Part of the reason is that we're more tolerant of visible crashes in computers than other fields.

However, systematic studies (e.g. http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/12...) have shown that centralized pre-market review even in areas like healthcare costs more lives and money than it claims to save. [Not to digress too much, but among other things, the lack of an opt-out means the FDA has no incentive to remain competent. There are thousands of schools that certify medical doctors, but only one certification agency for medical devices. The relative lack of innovation in healthcare vs. IT is in nontrivial part due to this stifling regulation; see for example what happens when internet culture collides with FDA culture here: http://mobihealthnews.com/6932/interview-the-iphone-medical-...]
Ask HN: "Please don't use Internet Explorer" message
Hi, I am building a web app that does not run on Internet Explorer and I want to put up a sign on my home page to ask users to view via Firefox/Chrome/Safari.

Can any one think of nice, funny messages that convey the message without sounding patronizing?

Here is one for starters:

"This site works best in modern browsers like Firefox, Chrome or Safari - all of which are free. It seems that you are using Internet Explorer, though fine for most purposes, it does not support many advanced features supported by most modern browsers. This application needs these new features and hence we must ask you to have an extra bit of patience and come back from another browser!"
Companies hiring for many roles will discard most or all candidates that fall into the top >20% bracket at the earliest possible stage because they're obviously going to be more expensive, likely to move on to another role earlier and/or likely to prove a "poor cultural fit" if they start debating decisions made by a less capable and experienced lead or manager. Some people are looking for session musicians rather than rockstars.
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Alpha full :(

By the way, the intro screen is awesome and beautiful, it reminds me of "Ico" AND "Another World" ("Out of this World" for you Americans).
Quoting my favorite trolling rule: "This has a working definition of 'attempting to be as annoying as possible while still technically obeying the rules[.]'"

Which fits patent trolls perfectly.
I wonder, why don't large corporations join forces and lobby the government and congress for changes in patent rules and laws?

Of course they themselves may have benefited from the current rules quite a bit too, but they still can benefit more with some changes to the rules that remove the chance for these leeches from sucking blood from them and the whole economy. (For large enough players, growth in the economy as a whole will also affect their growths and profits.)

Large corporations generally have both positive and negative impacts on everyone's wellbeing, but these patent trolls, who don't produce anything of value, only consume resources, are clear negatives.
Ask HN: How does Google make money off of Android?
I've been combing the internets, trying to figure out how Google makes money off of Android. There was an older question [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600408] that sort of addressed this question, but the answer is basically: "It is making money off of 'search'."

I don't understand how it's making money off of search and what prevents Google's competitors from removing that from the source and forking their own version of Android.

Since Android doesn't have GoogleAds popping-up all over the place (I'm assuming it doesn't since I don't own an Android phone), how is this better than trying to make the best search engine so that every mobile device will use Google as its search engine? That way they don't have to waste resources on developing/maintaining a complex software stack.

I feel like the answer is very obvious but I'm completely missing something.
Yeah the difference in inertia on Safari's scrolling has been bothering me for a while so I feel you on that. There are a ton of places where I think native apps are better than a modern web app right now but I think that's just the state of the web. The browsers are all improving rapidly but the bar set by native apps is rising as well.
In the defense of Microsoft and Google, they typically filed patents as defensive measures to mitigate against what they saw as a broken system.
In that case, you're entirely forgiven.
Then their control isn't the control but is the experiment group. If you're exercising under the species baseline norm then you're studying how sedateness decreases youthfulness, not how exercise prolongs it.

Humans were hunter gatherers, their level of exercise would be our evolutionary norm, IE the obvious control group. Exercise above or below our evolutionary norm would give us information as to how best increase longevity.

It's a commonly accepted 'fact' that our exercise below this evolutionary norm is detrimental to our health. Exercise above and beyond our social norm is obviously going to beneficial to our health and weight as it is equivalent to moving us towards our hunter gatherer ancestors, but this is only normalizing a wrong we already know about.
Sure, I'm a user interface developer/designer capable of things most couldn't even dream of. Looking for a new job in NYC so I cam move my family back to the city. I built Edit Room, which is the quickest and easiest way to create CSS3 animations. Links and Email in profile...
The implementation details of the 1-Click patent are still fairly broad/generic: http://www.google.com/patents?id=O2YXAAAAEBAJ

It's worth noting that while the USPTO granted the patent (and even after multiple reexaminations still granted parts of the patent), the patent was never granted at all in Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent
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Hi there!

Where do I find “good” programmers in the Valley? Is there a newspaper, a forum, blog, cafeteria, event, etc get in contact with good programmers?

I will hopefully move soon to the Valley to found a company. I’m a programmer myself, but I will need some help. 1 or 2 good programmers that I can trust will do. They will obviously get a portion of the company! Motivation is everything, and unfortunately salary won’t be high at the beginning.

The problem is that I live abroad and I don’t know too much people there. I know a lot of “good” programmers but they all live abroad. I guess they won’t be able to come to the US due to the green card!

So how do I get in touch with “good” programmers in the Valley?

Thanks in advanced!
I had the same setup once; mostly because the $#!# $#!$# light above the desk was too bright, but I totally credit jwz with the idea having read about it in... '95 or so?

I got the camo net from an army-navy store, and went in on a weekend to set it up. 1 other guy was in working, and as I rolled it out, he and I agreed it just smelled too bad to be able to work. Had to take it home, set it out on my lawn (this was the summer, in Georgia) and let it "bake" the stench out for a day or so. Couple days later it was fine, and I cherished my dark hidey-hole for a year or 2 afterwords.

Internal light source was a lava lamp (red wax, clear liquid).

Good times.
Blogged more about what we are doing with Utopic yesterday:
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I feel for you. One of my perceived barriers to my on-the-side startup idea is this very thing.

If you get to fill in the form again, declare yourself as a director of the company /you will form/ to hold your IP. That's all, do NOT list the IP. The IP baggage is then not with you, per se, but with the Ltd company you created.

Sounds like my perfect nightmare, I hope this resolves itself!
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Loading resources over a network is going to be the bottleneck here. Mobile Safari's offline storage may not provide enough disk for this.
First thing I thought was "frames" when I saw this site. Pretty obvious really.
I /think/ this may depend on the mechanism used to move the money. Do ACH transfers incur NSF/Overdraft fees, or do they simply get rejected?
Why do they have to add a new alphabet just to add new word ? Don't they have swedish equivalent of the word web ? This is insane.
I am probably too young to have used your software. Just one piece of advice, please keep withdrawing amount from your paypal account, on timely (probably daily) basis, there are way too many horror stories about it.
Here is how we use the PHP AppServer in Midgard Create. Very easy setup:

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> Huh? Stupid comment.

> If you don't like how the industry describes this behaviour I suggest you find a new industry as we're always coming up with names like that.

Leave these bits out and you've got a perfectly good response. There's no need for name calling.
Related Swedish Trivia: We pronounce "at" (@) as "snabel-a", where snabel is something like the elephant's trunk or proboscis. Basically an a with a long nose.
This is a rather negative spin on something that probably is much more simple...

The kernel has always been the most heavily patched package by distributors. In the old days of Red Hat desktop, when they had a 6-month release cycle, it had maybe 10-15 patches. Now, with them having to support the same base kernel version for 7 years with bug fixes and backported features, I can only imagine how many patches it has.

The line has to be drawn somewhere. At some point it stops being a somewhat patched kernel to become an effective fork. And for the major distributions it has become a fork for quite some time now.

And the Linux kernel is heavily forked already. In fact, the whole Linux development model is based on particular forks by all the different subsystem groups and distributions, with periodical exchange of features and fixes between them leading eventually to the canonical Linux fork (Linus').

Today it doesn't make sense to be extracting patches from git just to produce a "tarball with patches" source RPM.

It isn't a conspiracy, people. (If they started doing this to other packages, that would be another matter.)
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Wow that's amazing, thanks. I'm amazed by how much the Roman Legionaries were actually marching pretty much to the maximum.

I'm more surprised that my estimation based off a 1500-2000 year old military data set was even close to accurate.
The problem here is that the reason they are suing nearly 400 companies is as a tactic against Google and Microsoft. Essentially the patent covers looking up in a database items that have geographic information associated with them, and displaying the results on a map.

They think Google maps and Bing maps violate this. They also know that if they sued either of those two, neither would not be interested in settling and buying a license. Either of them would go ahead and mount a vigorous defense, and very likely destroy the patent.

So, instead of suing Google and Microsoft, who they know would destroy their bogus patent, they are going after companies that use Google maps or Bing maps, such as companies that have a "store locator" on their web site that will show you where nearby stores are located.

Their hope is that those nearly 400 companies will all put pressure on Google and Microsoft to make the suits quickly go away, and that Google and Microsoft will respond by just going ahead and licensing the patent since that is quicker than getting it invalidated.
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Why couldn't anyone infer the patches by grabbing the original kernel source from kernel.org and using diff on them? (sorry if this is a naive question)
"vau" is V. It's quite distinct from W in German.
the big problem for the US is the American consumer. For the last 20 years the average American has been using $1.10 for every dollar made. This has been possible due to cheap loans and rising real estate prices.

The bare truth is that for the last many years America, and to some extent Europe, has been living well beyond its means.
I remember reading about JWZ when I was 15 in the mid 90s. He was a hero of mine: when I grew up, I wanted to work at Netscape.

It worries me he runs a nightclub now:

if your idols want to leave the industry, what does it say about the industry?
Not only is the point of the cone not at the particle; it's not even in the same space as the particle! The cone is in the Fourier transform of the beam.

A standard optical trap, applied to very small objects, works like this: the electric field causes polarization in the thing being trapped, turning it into a little dipole; it then exerts a force on the induced charges, basically pulling on each end of the dipole; that force is bigger in regions of greater field intensity; the net effect is a small force pulling the object towards where the field is bigger. (In an electromagnetic wave there is also a magnetic field, which also acts on the objects, but the effects of those average out to zero over each cycle of the wave.)

Now, really the effect of an electric field on a particle is more complicated than just turning it into a dipole. There will be higher-order stuff as well. The authors of this paper claim that if you look at the quadrupole term and consider interactions between the different terms (warning: I am not at all sure I understand this bit, and they've left the details to a supplementary section that appears not to be included in the paper on the arXiv), then with a suitably shaped beam and the right sort of particle you can get a backward pull against the direction of propagation of the wave. (So, yes, the light will have to emerge travelling more-directly-forward than it went in, so to speak. Which is ... counterintuitive.)

So it's different from an optical trap in that it relies on higher-order effects, and a more sophisticated beam shape, and it can only work on very small objects (the higher-order stuff gets averaged away for bigger ones; so I don't think you could use this technique for things like biological specimens). But it uses much the same underlying physics.

[EDITED to add: their trick also doesn't work for the very smallest objects, substantially below one wavelength. It works only in the "Mie regime", meaning with particles whose size is comparable to the wavelength.]
Scoble keeps making the "only 16 apps" claim, but it's absolutely false. To be fair, there are currently 16 featured tablet apps in the Market. But if you search for "HD", "THD" or "Tablet", you'll find a great many more, including a Hacker News reader that I'm currently working on. :-)

What's my take on the Xoom, as an owner and developer?

- The weight and size don't bother me at all, but I've got big hands. I can hold it for hours when reading. The power button, however, is definitely weird.

- Honeycomb and the Google apps are just amazing. I love the application switcher, the notification system, the tabbed browser, the Google Calendar client, the large, interactive widgets, etc.

- There is a shortage of good tablet apps. To be fair, this will be true of any two-week-old tablet platform that tries to compete with the iPad. If we want a two-player tablet market, somebody's got to go through the "no apps" stage.

- The lack of Flash and Netflix is painful, because it means there's very little video content to consume on the Xoom. And the Xoom would be a killer device for watching video. Flash will be fixed Real Soon Now, and Netflix is making very vague noises.

All in all, I love my Xoom, and I enjoy writing software for it. I think that once Flash arrives, and more apps become available, that the inevitable 87 Android tablets launched in 2011 will stand a decent chance at making up some ground against the iPad. And this would be a good thing; even for iPad owners—Apple needs credible competition. And the Xoom is definitely a more credible device than the Android 1.5 phones ever were.
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I don't mean to be flippant, but why? Best case scenario (as I see it), the lawyer says they have no case and they can neither fire you, nor take your IP. Which leaves you working for a company that doesn't want you working for them. Which, to me, equals quiting or being fired in the short or medium term.

Worst case, you quit, are fired, or sell them your project.

I think you should see if they'll buy your project, and if not quit or be fired.

I'd go to a lawyer if they tried to claim ownership of your project, which they don't seem to be doing.

Of course, IANAL, and neither is my parent, which may answer my question of "why?"
No, it's not a typo.

Standard "optical tweezers" pull things towards regions of higher intensity (it's the intensity gradient, not the potential gradient, that's relevant here), so you can't pull anything past where the intensity is maximal. But the technique described in the paper works even with no intensity gradient along the direction of beam propagation. (I think that if there were one, the gradient force would swamp their new force, but I'm not sure.)
In dutch "@" is pronounced as "apestaartje" which means literally "monkey tail".

An overview of the literal meaning of @ in different languages can be found in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#.22Commercial_at.22_in_...

According to Wikipedia the oldest documented use of "@" is in an Italian mercantile document in 1537.

[Dutch] http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/@#Ander_gebruik_van_.40
[English] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#History
On Disney's "Warimals" site:

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In what world is Facebook required for this kind of thing?
Sokoban?

(I'm really not familiar with recent games)
I’ve never heard a politician speak/write in such bullshit-free terms (i.e. plain English). I suppose that’s why he’s “minister for culture, communications and creative industries”.
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ahhh, so W is pronouced 'vay' and V is 'vau'. I see. I got the german pronunciation confused with the french (which is double-vay), and assumed that Germans were pronouncing 'w' as 'v' in www. But I was wrong. Thanks!
cool. but this seems fundamentally similar to the Chan/Var style of parallelism in haskell?
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Tuxebo (YCS09) is innovating in the rental space, and we're looking for a talented software engineer to join the team, possibly as CTO with salary (experience dependant). Founder equity and status is available. We are based in London, so you would need to live in London already or move here. We can help with accommodation.

Tuxebo is a marketplace and booking system for renting things. Currently focused on construction rental, the aim is to be a one stop shop for all things rental; luxury cars, wedding rentals, jewellery, clothes, books, private jets, mobile homes, etc. Renting is a necessary service, financing option and lifestyle choice, making our market a very big, diverse and interesting place.

The company is generating significant revenue, is profitable and growing rapidly. Yet Tuxebo has a very, very long way to go before even resembling it's aim. This is a unique opportunity to work with some very, very smart, fun, entrepreneurial and passionate people and to get a part of a rapidly developing startup in a huge market.

As the 4th member of the team, you will be fundamental to the company and the development of the product, working alongside experienced web entrepreneurs in taking Tuxebo from simple web app, with just a few verticals, to a huge marketplace covering everything rental in multiple countries.

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* Experience with some relational database, e.g. MySQL/PostgreSQL

* Experience with Linux systems administration

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* Familiarity with Pylons, SQLAlchemy

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I’ve taken the tour, but I still don’t understand what you do. Can you explain how it works?
Indeed. The lure of CentOS is pretty much that it is RHEL with replaced artwork. And Red Hat benefits a lot from CentOS...

Red Hat sells to businesses, and any business with money to spend on RHEL subscriptions will do so. Management doesn't like free-as-in-beer very much. But they also don't like to see a piling amount of licensing costs on development and testing machines.

Having a paid-for distribution and a free distribution with separate brandings allows RHEL to have a higher subscription cost while not losing customers to the competition because of the added cost of development/testing machines.

I think this is even the reason why Red Hat is much more successful than Novell: the existence of a low-resistance path to the "enterprise" distribution without that meaning less quality or bleeding-edge distributions.
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