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I don't think he'd have saved any time doing a completely original interface based on nothing. Quite possibly, it would have taken him a lot more time to do something as visually compelling (for mom and pop) as that completely from scratch.
It takes 25% of your screen; Gnome-Shell's activity pane takes 100%; Mac OS X Lion's launchpad also takes 100% AFAIK.

Seriously, what do you intent to do with all the free space you get if dash takes just 10% of your screen?

Dash is for launching apps and places; You open it, launch an item and it disappears. It doesn't stay there and waste space.

I think people have preconceived notions about Unity and Shell being bad. Just try them with an open mind and give them enough time (say, a week) and I'm sure you'll love them both.
Sorry, it's already National Cordon Bleu Day and National Hug a Newsman Day.

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that doesn't justify the sudden silence in matter of months that the article shows in the graphic, I wonder if analyzing the worm's code shows if there is a time condition or bug that disables it after X date.
Various possible solutions:

1) When is 'morning', exactly?

2) Allow N votes per hour instead of N per day

3) If (2) would devalue votes too much, allow N votes per 5 hour period.
I think the barrier is that credit cards are pull and not push so people are hesitant to hand the capacity to pull over to very small operations which are often overseas and might be dodgy (or get hacked for that matter). Imagine if you made a purchase on a site and it gave you a string to then cut-and-paste into your e-banking (or you give them your ebank "email" and then you get an SMS confirm notice, which is closer to pull while still having that push feeling of control). Although, I am a little hesitant about SMS and banking now, having had to try to do some banking overseas and not being able to get the SMS confirm from a bank on a push (domestic paying of rent) operation.
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The BBC did a really good TV drama on Turing called "Breaking the code" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/).

I suspect its available on DVD now. Here is a small snippet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV67Sj2jkVg
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I haven't been able to figure out why electronics can't be shipped internationally through Amazon either. The closest guess I can make has to do with FCC, and other countries' equivalent, requirements and interference. For example 802.11 uses different bands depending on what country it's licensed in. US is channels 1-12, but France for example goes 1-14.

I figure the OEM nor Amazon wants to indemnify the device from causing interference in countries it's not designed to work in. On the other hand I have no problem buying whatever the hell I want from some chinese stores.
Hey, Tim Soo here.

Yeah it's not meant to be a replacement for an acoustic instrument by any means. I played in symphonies growing up and taught violin for a couple years. It's made to be a mixture of RockBand and an acoustic instrument.

B/c you're working with two accelerometers and a tuning fork gyroscope, you actually have much more control than you might think. Bow tilt, vibrato, velocity. It's actually (for me anyways) a pretty useful tool for entering MIDI when I want it to sound more like a violin, than say if I just entered the notes via a MIDI keyboard.

For even for classical musicians

Again, it's not made to be a replacement for a real instrument by any means. But the idea isn't lost on classical musicians. Part of the reason I decided to kickstart this project is because I was approached by a few classical musicians who wanted to play a song while say controlling additive synthesis via their vibrato or control really any parameter via bow tilt.

I chose a Wiimote and iPhone because I think a good portion of people already have both.

Expensive? When I bought my Wiimote plus, it was actually only $28. For a gesture control / experimental device, I would say this cost is on the lower side.
We should make it a standard that url's be copy-pastable. Sorry and thank you.
"... I'd never read your write up before. Thanks for that. ..."

It was a great thing to do John. It changed history ~ http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/number10.gov.uk/... I've also capped the Downing St. response via twitter ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3909148598/
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Haha, many thanks.

For those who are interested, I was classically trained in piano, violin and voice. Used to play in professional groups for awhile. I studied music and music technology in college.

And you're right! This shouldn't be a replacement for the joy of struggling with an acoustic instrument. This just serves to put a new twist on an old idea.
I actually bought and read the book.

I was mostly interested in seeing what a self-published web-focused book would look like. I had read some of zeds other writings and work a bit with python.

It took me a few sessions to get through (and I didn't do the exercises), but its a pretty good book. Even though its tilted towards beginners, the really easy stuff is in the first half and you can skim through it.

The second half (chapter 27 and on) do a good job of covering thinking like a programmer, and builds up a basic text adventure.

From someone who has been a computer programmer for a long time, and read a lot of programming books, it was informative and entertaining.

If a third of a million people have downloaded it, at least a few are reading it, making programs, and finding out that its worth doing even if it isn't easy.
Many thanks! While I know most people aren't fans of Bruno Mars, his range is still pretty ridiculous.
Yep! Since it's so easy to loop with Ableton, or really any other looper nowadays, there is a lot of ImogenHeap-esque potential in this.

Also instead of foot pedals I just use the buttons on the wiimote (makes it so I don't have to stand in one place the entire time)
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Algorithmic real-time, direct democracy doesn't remove human emotion from the equation. On the contrary, it makes it easy for key decisions to be made an emotive reaction to yellow journalism without those making the decision having any accountability or any penalty for failing to weight up the consequences.
Don't blame the professors, blame yourself. Of course I don't mean this literally, I'm just trying to say that it's good to get used to doing your own research. Professors won't teach you everything that's important. It's primarily your job to broaden your horizons.
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IMO no. It's a rather new ecosystem. Overtime a dominant variation will emerge. Even if someone did come to a conclusion of what should be the correct variation how would it be enforced?
> But you bet your ass I'm writing some more of these and charging a enough to make $1 or $2 off each copy.

Do one on ZeroMQ and C and I will gladly pay you $30.
Sorry, just venting - I don't perceive overtrust of experts to be a great problem right now. Open-minded is good. I was 17 before a teacher ever mentioned its virtues (he discussed "parsimony" in science). I do believe that a lot of softer science has found voice through politicization, and perhaps other long-term effects of grant-driven research, subsidized tuitions...
Haha I'll admit the synthesizer wasn't great. I just used the default.

I'm a violinist, and actually have owned/played on several electric violins in the past. The most decent model (from sharmusic.com) that I tested back in 2006 costed $500. The fifty dollar ones just didn't cut it for me.

The point of the violin design, however, was so I could tie different aspects of performance (body movement, bow tilt, vibrato) to new parameters.

Previous designs actually didn't use iPhones or wiimotes. Rather, just DIY accelerometers. But, I wanted to use devices that people already had. So of course I wouldn't expect people to shell out cash to buy an iPhone just for this purpose. But for those existing iPhone users (who don't have a Wii), buying a Wiimote isn't too costly.
is there a day that isn't "The Day of Something"? i like the idea of webmaster's day!
Ravi Mehta is not vaguely surprised that most high-profile basketball "experts" screwed up their Final Four predictions. Overall, of 5.9 million brackets submitted to ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge by those following the games, only 192 had Butler meeting Virginia Commonwealth in Saturday's semi-finals.

This is like asking people to predict the result of a slightly skewed coin flip, without giving any odds, and afterwards proclaiming them wrong if the less likely side happened. In other words, this does not show that the predictions were "wrong" in any meaningful way.
Sure thing, trust on technology to sort it out. Biotechnology can solve all our problems, so let's just party like there is no tomorrow and leave the rest to the engineers.
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What I mean is that this could be a solution for few people but not for every one.

Looking from a country prospective, expecially an economic point of view, it's not a long term solution if the majority of your students apply for interniship in a foreign country (even if EU).

Europe is not USA, we are not a single federal country but an "alliance" of many countries with different economies, rules, languages and even cultures which are in many cases an obstacle.

If it would be relatively easy for a californania student to apply for an internship in NY, would not be as easy for a polish student to go and take an interniship in portugal for the reasons listed.
Hi! Sorry for the delay in responding to comments. Was asleep.

I'll come back and check this often, so post questions!

Here's the video demo that is mentioned in the comments
http://youtu.be/Slizmp8qIyw
Great article (which I reposted on swombat.com). One comment I'd have is that the "growing" characteristic is very important! I followed this approach for my first startup, and thought it would be a walk in the park. However, the industry we started in (audio on the web) was tanking in 2007 and that was one of the important issues amongst the many problems we hit...
Everybody mentions iTunes in this context, but nobody remembers there have been hundreds of failed companies that tried to sell MP3s online over the years. Apple is an exception, not the norm. They succeeded, thanks to the integrated platform and smooth user experience, but it doesn't mean that everybody will.
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It's much easier when it's just another IP address! :)

And yeah, the reason something like AppEngine or Django wouldn't work is that they, by default, bind only to loopback/127.0.0.1, and are only accessible from the host on which they're running, as a security precaution.
Interesting. So you are saying you picked a growing industry and it tanked?
There's an easy way to print from the wikipedia or any wikimedia wiki:

http://pediapress.com/

It's also open source, video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1K03AZfpDM
> The problem is that popularity is not indicative of quality.

Doesn't this apply to every voting system ever designed? If you want to avoid this problem, what can you do apart from get rid of voting in the first place? Without voting, what will be left of HN?

> Your proposal is just another way of staging a popularity contest for comments.

Again: isn't that what we have right now?

I'm merely suggesting a way of improving it. I perceive that part of the problem is that the exceptional people who made HN what it is in the early days now have little say compared to the newbie masses who are dragging it down. The people in the middle (eg. myself) are a big number who increasingly become disenfranchised and are less active, thus voting less, thus exacerbating the problem.

> In other words, just because some guy is popular does not mean he makes good decisions.

Here, the "follow" list would be private and only specifically there for you to nominate who you think make good decisions. This gives those who reduce their activity due to quality an equal voice rather than a lesser voice.

I don't see how you can separate popularity as you do. Why would I have a popular person in my list if I didn't trust their decisions? He could still be popular, just not in my list! Perhaps I should have called it a "proxy vote list" instead of a "follow list".

A user who is in the list of many other users need not even be told who or how many there are (the upvote total may need to be delayed or something like that to achieve this). People shouldn't be writing solely to seek popularity.
Ooh maybe you're on Windows 7 home? I'm on professional. That could be a difference.

When I use it, I go to: Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Firewall and then select "advanced settings" on the left. Do you have that option?
Yes, there are probably people with embedded viewers that downloaded it several times not to mention all the HN and reddit users that read the article on the front page and downloaded it just to have a look, it's hard to tell exactly.

Regardless, it's still a huge number of downloads so congrats for that.
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I don't think further restrictions will help.
I'd prefer a fixed contingent of up/downvotes (or votes in general) per month/week/day which may be somehow related to your current karma level or will be dynamically altered each period and/or in addition for every 10 upvotes you get, you'll have an extra vote yourself.

Submissions should hardly give any karma. That should take care of most of the problems regarding submissions.

About the approval: It should probably be the other way around. Flagged submissions are added to a queue for review (maybe letting the community to vote once more and therefor reviving the submission) and duplicates with comments are merged.

Random mumble:
I have the feeling that many discussions depend too much on the poster. Sometimes complete discussions shift because of a comment of an established poster or live and die with said poster. And it's from time to time not because of some valuable insight but rather the fact that it's him/her. I am probably the only one who feels like that and I don't have a solution (if it needs one). Hiding the username and having to do an extra click (profile e.g.) to see who's behind the post would probably minimize the problem. But it would make it harder to filter out posts (which would need another indicator karma/per comment ratio (e.g.) to make it at least a bit useful).
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That's cool, but nearly invisible (I certainly didn't know about it) - if you write to be read, active isn't going to help much.
You cannot even trust registrars (netsol and godaddy are prime examples).

Spend a few hours and write your own code to do direct registry searches through the whois telnet query.

I wrote one myself, it's not that hard and you'll learn a bit.
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So where does politics fit into this?
That's great, but there was already http://availableincanada.com/.
After giving this a bit more thought, I realized that this scheme could be made even more decentralized by simply de-anonymizing votes and providing an API to HN that would allow fetching of the voter lists for each comment (and article).

Then each user would be free to use software running on their own machines to implement the comment recommendation scheme as described above.

In fact, HN wouldn't even need to de-anonymize the votes for this to work. All the HN servers would need to do is make available a list of unique user id's of the upvoters and downvoters. How those user id's map on to usernames wouldn't need to be revealed. But the user id's should remain consistent from comment to comment and article to article, so that the affinity number described in the original proposal could be consistently updated.

So, in this new proposal, each HN user would be assigned a unique id, and when they vote their id would be made available via the HN API along with the comment(s) they voted on when a given story's comments are downloaded for viewing.

Software running on a given user's local machine would then use the user id's and information on how those user id's voted to create a measure of affinity as described in the original proposal, and then sort, rate, or recommend comments accordingly.
Yes to the C book. It seems because of the age of C that there is a gap in the literature for a more up-to-date book (one that would be pre-K&R).
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Although I appreciate your effort, I don't think it makes any sense that we try figure this out on our own.

It's the task of the author, not the readers, to deliver those facts.
I'm extremely grateful to entrepreneurs like Paras who've been in the trenches (and stumbled several times, only to pick themselves up and dust themselves off each time), lay their cards on the table and share tidbits of actionable insight (Non-esoteric, actionable insight being the operative words here).

I think this extends PG's classic words, "Make something people want" to something that sounds like:

Make something people want that

1) they're ready to pay for / you can monetize

2) is in an expanding / sufficiently large market

3) has precedents / incumbents that validate the need

4) you're sufficiently well leveraged to execute on

5) you and your team are passionate about

While there will always be outliers / exceptions to the rule, I'm convinced this is an excellent heuristic to filter the several hundreds of ideas that course through the average entrepeneur's mind in any given year.
All of the technical discussions about this aside this really makes no sense. To me it sounds a lot like claiming that you cannot own letters hence you cannot own an essay you wrote.
I agree with gleb and Alex3917 that a large number of mediocre comments are the true problem.

I used to participate in the comments because the conversations were stimulating and the community was small. The community's too large for everyone to talk now, but HN has been the best tool for the intellectually curious to date and that doesn't have to change. The bar for commenting just needs to be higher.

When I read the top comments nowadays I'm expecting them to be written by:

- the author of the submitted article
- the subject(s) of the article
- employees or close relations to the subject(s) of the article
- experts in the subject matter

At the bottom I expect to find comments such as product feedback or links to the print version of the article and minor but useful stuff like that. Smart people with interesting things to say shouldn't leave comments here--the community's too big for that now.

I'm not sure how you programmatically enforce that. It might be as simple as changing the commenting policies and have the users adjust their self policing.
I just checked, and Amazon says it can (now) ship Kindle to Canada. Customs duties, etc, but they can ship. FYI.
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The trouble with online tutorials is that they lack the cohesiveness of books. Usually they focus on how-to-do one single aspect and you lose the overall view of the subject as a whole.
Ah BT. Calling them an ISP is not very accurate. The former telecoms arm of the postal service, later a privatised monopoly service. Avoided by anyone who can, but with a head office who believes that if only they could become a tv station all would be well, while we wish that they would be broken up into some competitive organizations that might be relevant. No way they can run a successful music service....
They've recently started taking some journalistic liberties with the material they get to push an agenda. One that comes to mind is the "kill squads" in Afghanistan. Basically a bunch of psychopaths got together to kill civilians. These guys aren't in the same platoon nor the same company.

RS reports it as some sort of secret hitsquad the government is trying to cover up. http://www.michaelyon-online.com/calling-bullshit-on-rolling...
I kinda have from a company called Easily (March 2008). I used a random domain name and their interface claimed it was already taken for the top TLDs, I don't know if they instantaneously registered it or just lied:

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And to take this to extremes: here's Playboy, with a piece of serious long-format investigative journalism: http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-man-who-conned-the-penta...

[for comparison, here's the NYT version (which I believe is in large part based on Playboy) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html?_r...]
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Even easier to visualize: a ream of paper (for example, what you put in your printer) is 500 sheets. So, stack five of those on top of each other, and you have 5000 pages (plus a little extra for the wrappers.

Needless to say, it's nowhere near the tower pictured in the photo.

EDIT: corrected "sheets" for my previous, incorrect "pages", which changed the number of reams to five.