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Depending on the country of Europe, you could not register as a "Buddhist"; in Germany it is not an official religion, for example.
this is a ridiculous and irrelevant statement. In any case as far as I know he's atheist.
You're in LA - look up coloft - they are in santa monica and have a website of the same name. They have a lot of events for startups and the owners are fantastic people.

You have all kinds of hacker groups in la too. go to meetup.com and see what you can drum up.

My observation is that LA startup scene is really heating up and I wish you the best.
Multi-touch E-ink Triton display, Android, and their app store maybe? Shouldn't take much more than that.
No it isn't, did you read the mailing list? The closest thing to in the list was one of the devs responding to a troll saying "if you really want that, here is how you can implement it".
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Android phones you buy directly from AT&T have sideloading disabled. I believe you have to root the phone to turn this feature back on.
It sounds to me as if what you don't believe in is not the Copenhagen interpretation but quantum mechanics. The things on which quantum computation depends, and that you are being skeptical about, are common to all interpretations of QM. (Which is just as well, because all interpretations make the same predictions about our observations -- aside perhaps from some funny "anthropic" things -- and whether quantum computation works or not is, at least once the necessary engineering has been done, eminently observable.)
And: "I've told the Purchasing Dept. to approve any amount up to $10M."
I use FreshStart (an extension) for that in Chrome.
Please stick to the facts and try to get the reasons behind the removal before starting a baseless campaign like this. Not everything is a zionist plot...
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"The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation." No religious affiliation does not mean people are becoming non-believers. I hear a lot of people who believe (in whatever) but don't want to be marked as religious.
I love giving everything I do to Google. It makes my daily life so much easier. Whenever I think about big corps and how I potentially may not trust them, I look around for people who actually work there. In Google's case, I find young, smart, cool people just like me who I trust not to be dicks and do things with my stuff I wouldn't want them to. They may mess up sometimes (I would), but I feel like I can trust them. The upsides from sharing all of this stuff with Google outweight the possible downsides for me.

Just wanted to post this since I feel like not enough people speak up to represent the not-so-paranoid crowd.
I made an iPhone app called Glow about a year ago that visualized "feelings" on a map in much the same way. I was working on a web-based global map as well, but got bored of the idea.

http://glowapp.com

http://glowapp.com/live

I guess Glow is an obvious name for map visualization apps.
It was working ok until I got a 30" monitor. Then it became a choppy scroll and sluggish. Sluggish I can handle more than the scrolling.
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I was answering the question from above "what are the differences from the current version?"

As for the differences from Chrome, those are mostly the same as they've always been: Deeper extensibility, more customization points, and made by a non-profit organization dedicated to openness.
Quantum algorithms halve the "strength in bits" of symmetric encryption algorithms by using the Grover's search algorithm (AFAIK):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer#Potential
Actually...follow the tweet I used to get to this conversation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351900

No reference of master conversation with Title you mention.

Silly?

I still would have posted Amazon link as reference to areas they do confer with partners.

But you are correct I would have provided more discussion about Lendle users.
Not sure how did ArabCrunch come to this conclusion without even asking Facebook and getting an answer.

Condemn the removal of the page, sure I'm with you but to call this a racist move then I would say show me how you to got to that conclusion.. don't just throw accusation because the CEO happens to fit the profile of someone you don't like
Congrats DotCloud. Please use the money to keep doing great things.
I've always thought religion would become less and less prevalent. Being non-religious was extremely rare before evolution was discovered and now its growing in popularity since we now know more, i think that trend will continue.

Evolution has had about 150 years, religion has had multiple thousands of years. In my opinion its just a matter of time before religious belief becomes a minority everywhere.
If you just want to search from the address bar without suggestions, you can already do that in Firefox 4. Just type a word and press return.
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Excuse the shameless plug, but if you're interested in metrics and analytics, maybe you'd be interested in joining the AWS CloudWatch team? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2284954
This is one reason why I think PC gaming never really took off in a big way.

We must be living in different worlds. I've seen PC gaming surpass movies as the dominant cultural product with ease, and at least in this part of the world (east Asia), no console game comes even remotely close to pulling down the revenues that World of Warcraft does or getting the TV time or tournaments that Starcraft II does.
For those with old ppc Macs, there is a port of FF4 Final at http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

Works great for me and is way faster than Safari 5.04 on a iMac G5 and a Powerbook G4 (10.5.8 in both).
Notably, I've yet to find a grocery store loyalty system that doesn't let me look up my "misplaced" tag by phone number. So I just give Jenny's number (867-5309) as my phone number at the register and I never even sign up for the program.
Meh. One of the smoothest features of Chrome (that won a lot of adherents) was how you could close lots of tabs quickly without moving the mouse (i.e. the tabs only re-size after you move the mouse away). Same for opening tabs. How did FF4 not copy this? It looks just like Chrome only crappier.
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Does it just do long-polling to receive the data? This seems another app where enabled WebSockets support would have been nice.
I wonder when Amazon is going to release their own Android device?
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Well, Firefox basically does that already, then. You can enter search terms in the URL bar and hit Enter to search. If you then hide the search box, you've got what you suggest.
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Thanks! We have tons of stuff in the pipeline.
On the other hand, half of the "related searches" on that page are "nokia app store", "android app store", "samsung app store", etc., which are not the official names of any of those brands. Its possible that the public uses more formal names when linking but less formal names when searching.
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That small of a nicety overshadows all of the other great things about Firefox 4?

Also, the Firefox team is implementing that but it didn't make it into this release. You can find out all sorts of things they are working on at http://wiki.mozilla.org.
Firefox 4 still has a huge number of UI issues on linux due to reliance on XUL for the UI. There have been improvements in a couple extensions, as far as font colors using GTK themes go, but the menubar is still too tall and has the wrong font color (on basically every GTK theme and theme engine I can find) and keyboard shortcuts for several things (e.g. space to toggle menu items without closing the menu) are removed from GTK. Using RGBA with the murrine GTK engine, alpha transparency leaves "ghosts" on hovered menu options in Firefox, and buttons occasionally completely change their look pre- and post-hover (firebug had a drop-down that would "segment" itself when hovered, for example).

Add this to the completely non-native tabs and toolbar, and the lack of a status bar, and the UI is simply unusable imo. A native UI using an established toolkit, or a custom-built UI with usability in mind would both be preferable to the current halfway kludge.
> Chrome's location bar provides everything you _type_ to Google

That can be changed on about:flags

> sync feature gives them all of your bookmarks and history.

Unless you don't use Gmail and do all your websearch using Incognito, I don't see that as a problem.
Where is this "maximize"? Is it an add-on? A button I'm not seeing?

edit: why the downvotes? I'm at work on my rickety WinXP corporate box, and FF4 definitely does not behave as described above. (Do really think I didn't try that?!)
related: scalability is not efficiency. discuss.
I didn't apply a few months ago (when I was looking) because of that one line. I'm glad to hear that you're not becoming burnt out!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465086

There is a patch there, it just didn't get reviewed in time for Firefox 4.
Down-vote, really? I was just giving my first impression, which was 'not better than Chrome' and 'looks clunky'.

Also, Chrome has had that feature for over a year and in that time it's won a lot of praise from a lot of places. Granted, it's just one little feature that doesn't matter that much... but that's what people refer to when they speak of "polish" and "user experience" and I think that stuff matters more to people than you might think.
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yeah! great job guys... keep it up
Nice Concept. But don't get me wrong, you guys have to find a good designer for your site. Especially, the black background panics me (gives me an impression that I just logged in to some hacker site) plus the marquee on the home page takes me back to 90's era.
So, "always be fundraising" and "always be recruiting" and "always be learning from customers" and "always be improving product/market fit" and "always don't go broke" and so on?

I can understand parallel-tracking some of these things, but if you do too much at once, don't you end up doing nothing well because you waste so much time task and focus-switching?
I couldn't find any PPAs or packages for Ubuntu, yet. Did anyone else?
Firefox user here since phoenix, switched to Chrome and never looked back. You can't come to par with Chrome to make me switch back, you have to make me shit my pants to do so, and Chrome did when they were the first to bring websockets to the browser. They kept bringing good stuff like web inspector, so no need to download firebug or any other extension. And joining the search bar with the address bar is just genius.

In short, I prefer my browser naked, and Chrome is the best without clothes.
Do the laws of physics allow for free will?
> The things on which quantum computation depends, and
> that you are being skeptical about, are common to all
> interpretations of QM.

I disagree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory (The "Motivation" section is particularly relevant to this discussion.)

This is not the standard QM, but to the best of my knowledge it is consistent with the results of all the standard QM experiments.
But plenty of people were talking about "web apps" before the iPhone. Which shows that "app" is not distinctive or unique. Nor is "store" distinctive.
Try imminst.org forums for the latest on brain hacking--they're the go-to experts on this kind of stuff. Tim Ferriss (4hww) seems to pick up many of his brain hacks there too.
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> Should there be a meat tax?

There is a "meat tax" which is exactly equal to/accounts for the inefficiency that you're worried about. That inefficiency is in the price of meat because suppliers pass the cost of grain through to their customers.

People don't always buy the most efficient. Get over it.
> Compare that to Dubai or Singapore or Belgium where the population is much smaller but Apple's addressable market is higher due to incomes and purchasing behaviors.

Hmmm, can it really be true that Singapore (population 5e6) has a larger market than India (pop 1e9), even given the huge per-capita GDP difference?

I agree with the thrust of your point (and everything about FDI), but would be useful to look at the income distribution in India to see if your ballpark estimate is correct.
Loved Rails for Zombies and I can't wait for the others to open up. The format that Envy Labs has for online learning is really just brilliant.
> Careful reading of the "bottom line" winestock posted will show that (s)he actually understands this.

This is incorrect. Winestock:

> Bottom line: Lack of religion is either non-adaptive from a fitness perspective, or it is strongly tied to traits which are themselves non-adaptive.

A third possibility, one of many, is "Lack of religion and a fertility rate less than 2.0 occur co-incidentally in seven countries". Given that we have only examined nine countries of a possible 195 (or so), I think that this third option is at least possible.
Wondering where did you get that map. Caspian sea is missing.
Different people like different things. Some people like to study computer science for its own sake, do research, develop algorithms, AI, machine learning, natural language processing, graphics, etc. A lot more people just want to apply their software knowledge to build a product of value to society. Among those, most do not require heavy algorithms or optimizations. It's just data in data out. Supply and demand are well balanced proportionally among the various sub-needs, but the field in general is undersupplied.

PS: "We all communicate really well". I wholeheartedly disagree! I think you just got lucky with where you worked.
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What do we know? That one species can evolve into another? Never been remotely proven. That one species can adapt itself to its surrounding. Sure that happens. It doesn't change its species though. "Macro" evolution just doesn't happen nor can it be proven to have happened.
This is one of those comments I really wish I could give more than 1 point to.
You can do the same thing by using Jammit with Rails (http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/) or mod_pagespeed with Apache (http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html).

They both have the advantage that it's done on-the-fly and you don't need to do a build before deploying.
Probably has more to do with being from Unixland
I really would like to see a built-in PDF viewer–that's one of my favorite features in Chrome because it keeps the download folder clean and lets me reference several PDFs/pages without leaving the window.
"The models we saw weren't final -- in fact, they didn't even power on"

Stopped reading.
I think you're both right. The best way is to watch/read many sources, keeping in mind each has its own biases.

What gets me is that many here seem unable to accept that Al Jazeera is just like other sources, rather than some sacred source of truth and beauty. It's like "skeptics" that believe in conspiracy theories. Disappointing to see this so popular in HN.
Actually according to the book "Death Star" by Michael Reaves, the project manager actually caught the exhaust port vulnerability during construction and made a verbal agreement with the foreman to fix the problem.

Unfortunately the project manager got distracted by other matters soon after and the foreman fell sick and the replacement foreman didn't know about the changes to the plans so he went ahead and built the port to spec.

When the project manager found out, it was too late and the construction was still behind schedule so she just left it.

This all happened AFTER the plans for the death star were leaked, too. So if the vulnerability had been fixed, the rebels would have gone ahead with their plan as normal and even Luke wouldn't have been able to hit that womprat.
The I-Bank part of the post is one quote and a link to here:
https://www.fis.dowjones.com/WebBlogs.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020110...
If I understand RTFMP (what I know I got from reading Cumulus, an open source C++ implementation), the security side of this is not thrilling me:

* It's Diffie Hellman for key agreement, which is trivially MITM'd (odds are, you can even zero out the DH key and it won't notice).

* It uses AES in CBC mode with all-zeroes IV's (so it's less secure than CBC mode).

* It's using a 16 bit CRC for message integrity checks instead of a cryptographic MAC.

I say all this with the caveat that I could be misreading Cumulus or Cumulus could have it wrong, but if this is where RTMFP is today, then Sendoid is substantially less secure than an HTTPS file transfer site.
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I'm a n00b when it comes to developing web apps, but the one I've been working on lately has gotten a fair amount of really positive feedback.

Again, I'm not a sysadmin or anything near the sort, so I'm quite unsure as to how to go about ensuring my app is robust. This has been a learning experience for me to develop a cool app from scratch, using RoR and Heroku. In the event that my app does go viral, I'd like my app to not crash and burn.

How could I ensure my app is robust and able to withstand thousands of potential users simultaneously? Even though getting featured on TC or other sites might be wishful thinking at this stage, I'd still like to prepare for the worst-case scenario in terms of handling unexpected traffic spikes etc.

Any pointers will be helpful!
People from the tech community are disproportionately represented on dating sites (if you're advertising on POF, they let you target them specifically), presumably due to the industry gender ratio and the general lack of customer interaction meaning far less dating via work occurs than in other industries.
Quantum computation works just fine in Bohmian QM. (The pilot wave contains all the same structure you get in a conventional wavefunction, including the "parallel worlds".)
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That poetic justice cuts right to the heart of the do-not-track debate, too.

Big players have an angle to weasel out of the proposed legislation -- if you can see enough packet traffic (think Akamai, Juniper, Google, Comcast), who gives a fuck about cookies? The big guys can sell ad targeting galore, and little guys are hosed. It has the potential to lock up the ad monetization ecosystem.

And for all the creepy online targeting -- how about what happens offline? Way more data. Way more detailed. No one seems to give a crap.

FWIW, the rapleaf guys seem perfectly nice in person. They just can't seem to get out of their own way with this 'ick factor' stuff.
Can you claim that something is on sale the moment you release it?

(A genuine question, I thought there may have been a requirement to note that something is an "introductory offer", but there are almost certainly different laws that apply to online sales.)
It looks like we weren't the only ones who think the service rocks - way to go! Congrats all around!
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one of the feature that i remember was that you can set individual settings for color, brightness, contrast and volume for each channel separately, this was a big issue as when you switch the channel suddenly color will change or volume will change due to default settings of the channel stations/broadcasters, the other was alarm settings and PIP etc.
I'm afraid they will also say "pigs learned to fly", but I admire your optimism
But June 8 release date. I think they'll pre-release these to folks at Google I/O in May (at least the 8.9" model) and we'll see lots of happy developers.
> The WiFi 10.1 will hit on June 8th -- the 16GB version will cost you $499 and the 32GB $599.

Awesome! The Xoom's pricing is hard for many consumers to swallow (personally I can't wait to buy one myself as soon as they come to Canada). But the Tab 10.1 looks like it will be the first awesome Android tablet that's truly competitively priced with the iPad.
Let's look at a few others, then.

USA: 2.1
UK: 1.9
Spain: 1.5
Portugal: 1.4
Denmark: 1.9

Nice to see that Spain, Portugal, and the USA, those bastions of atheism, have such high fertitily rates.

A better explanation is "Western nations have low fertility rates".
I like having a title bar, I park collapsed Trillian chat windows up there and I HATE that Chrome doesn't give me space to do that. It's a UI deal breaker for Chrome for me.
Tested this and learned a ton of from the Rails Best Practices course, whereas it usually takes me a while to learn how to refactor code properly using a new language or framework or even to care.

Definitely trickier than Rails for Zombies for people how have used Rails before but much more rewarding.
Why do engagdet.com urls always seem to create 2-4 additional urls in browser, so that clicking back once keeps me on the same page?
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Competition just heated up. Slightly thinner and slighter lighter than the iPad 2, and at the same price. Wow!

Samsung makes so much of the internals of the iPad 2, I think they might be Apple's biggest hardware competition. Too bad Samsung makes only slim margins on the hardware while Google and Apple make lots more off of the apps and browser.
We should stop innovating if there is no protection to our inventions
That's exactly my point. Not only does QC work "just fine" in Bohmian QM, it critically depends on the Bohmian interpretation of the wave function probabilities to achieve the massive parallelism it promises. To the best of my knowledge, there is no empirical basis to that interpretation, and there are effective QM models which don't need it.
Well, we knew there was high turnover with the staff on that thing. Vader's people-management methods were pretty extreme and capricious, to say the least. It's abundantly clear that ruling through terror didn't exactly bring out the best in his workforce.
Rails for Zombies is brilliant. Very high-quality stuff, and the website design is beautiful. I can't wait to see their JS courses.
The BBC, CNN, the NYT, and many others do the same thing. AJE is about on par with them.
Maybe they were thinking they could buy the name from cisco, which is what happened pretty soon after. Have you considered the possibility that Apple had talked to cisco quite a bit prior to announcing the iPhone, and knew they were going to be able to acquire the name, and the subsequent "noise" cisco made about suing apple was a negotiating tactic?

Their agreement was pretty mild-- cisco wanted apple to support its VPN technology on the iPhones which they did.

Apple generally, if it finds someone else owns a name it wants that doesn't already infringe on one of Apple's names, buys the name from them.

It doesn't just copy the name and wait to be sued, as Amazon did here.
No you have the wrong way round. Daneel (all though started with Giskard) was unable to accurately turn mathematical models intro true predications without Hari Seldon.
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I think I got it from Robert Powell's stuff:

http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php...
Part of our frustration probably stems from the reality that the large media businesses will get by just fine without the readership of the elite clientèle of YC. [eye roll]

However, most of us probably do tend to influence the opinion of a few others. A little complaining (in a constructive way) might be useful, albeit in an indirect way.

I like to think of preaching to the choir (or disagreeing with them) as being a way of polishing one's persuasion prior to the full congregation (or converting the masses).
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