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Or in other words, a black hole is something that light never escapes from, and the universe is also something that light never escapes from.

Ignoring hawking radiation of course...

... unless the cosmic microwave background is the equivalent of the hawking radiation given off by black holes (note: for the picky, before you object, consider that hawking radiation consists of when one part of a short lived mutually annihilating pair of particles falls into the event horizon and the other falls out (hence gets radiated away) and thus from the point of view of those inside the black hole it would appear as those there was a constant rain of particles falling in... which I'm equating here to the microwave background noise), which would imply that our universe is shrinking...

...unless it implies that our universe is getting bigger, maybe if our universe is a black hole with hawking 'radiation' then on the other side of the 'universal event horizon' things work a bit differently and it is matter which is more likely to fall in, not anti-matter...

... which would explain why baryonic matter in this universe has an overwhelming tendency towards matter instead of anti-matter, which is one of those really big still outstanding questions in science...
As a woman who has also been a CSR and has almost exclusively worked around men in the computer tech industry I think you are making the best of the situation and I applaud your noble efforts to move upwards. I think there are many subtle details most others around here will never understand (or even try to).

But I still think you got a raw deal no matter how they spin it and I firmly believe in the back of their minds you were always flagged as "disposable" (replaceable) if necessary. I've seen it over and over again over the years.
Looks really slick, and the anonymous demo is awesome!

Btw, small typo on front page: Under "Open for Business" it says No monthy fees, ever!"
Newtonian gravity is obviously a conspiracy by the intellectual elite to maintain control over the masses.
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Wow, is this the beginning of the end of cable companies?
I find it takes about 3 weeks if I start reading the text with a real-world use in mind. A week into it I'll try to write something towards that real-world goal and it will be horribly broken, but it will force me to really research what I'm not understanding as I'm going through the book instead of going back to re-read it 2 months later when I'm trying to use the new language/technique/etc.
"We postulate the density continuum defined by the rule R03/T02 = R3/T2"
T is in seconds, R is in meters. So R3/T2 is in cubic meters per square seconds. A density is something per cubic meters. How exactly do 'square seconds' form a density in any meaningful way? Don't worry, I won't be holding my breath.

Postulating is al good fun but are you actually planning to do some physics with it? You're just saying Newton is evil and wrong but are not giving any reasons why his laws don't sufficicently confirm to reality. Neither are you explaining why your alternative fits reality better.
Calling relativity an offshoot of Newtonian gravity is also not quite correct.

On the Verlinde article, I haven't read it. While it sounds interesting, it hinges on the definition of entropy. IMO, it might be a big circular argument.
Lines longer than 80 chars are harder to scan, and sticking to this rule allows tiling of windows. Maximising code windows on a widescreen is a huge waste. Even with long lines the average line length will be far shorter.

This is Guido's reasoning for keeping PEP8's rule to 80 chars.
Many people do desire the feature to change themes. A big reason to choose open source in the first place is the flexibility in customization that it brings. It's the opposite of the "Apple mindset" that there's one good way and that's the Steve way.
Winkey+w or winkey+e allows you to choose a window or desktop by mouse clicking. Copy/paste used to suck, but with newer ubuntu versions it works well for me. Notifications are not nice, I agree with you.
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> You could have done with AJAX what WebSockets does

If you consider long-polling (the nearest approximation you can do with AJAX) the same as true bi-directional communication.
No, when companies "complain that it's hard to retain/find talent" they mean that they are paying far below market rate, have poor working conditions, don't pay relocation or interview expenses, have poor benefits, are in a god forsaken location, and believe they are entitled to top talent for bargain basement rates.

There is no such thing as a company paying true market rate, with acceptable working conditions and terms, who cannot find talent. The problem is there are many companies that are in denial about the realities of the competitive market.

All this silly nonsense about only hiring people who started programming at age 8 is just a distraction to avoid contending with the real issues here.
Did you run Chrome with "–enable-webg" flags set (don't know if they are default on Ubuntu/Linux?
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Reminds me of a similar implementation using OpenLayers: http://gis.ibbeck.de/apps/Mandelbrot/htdocs/wms_mandelbrot_f...
The problem with the Enlightenment guys (as I understood) is that they always had big plans and awesome ideas, but there's just not many enough of them to implement everything they want.

They might consider to simply take the good parts of KDE/Gnome and build a visual shell around it to their liking. Kind of like what Canonical is doing.
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I'm basing that on this excerpt from the announcement on the Datasift website

"This means that developers interested in building tools to monitor and analyze Twitter data can now filter Tweets from the full Twitter Firehose, using DataSift for non-display analysis."
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Why node.js?
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I've started companies that grew from 1 to 50 people. I find that business advice from 37signals is often quite naïve and I hope people treat it as a data point, not as a set of guidelines.

Managing a company below 25 people is relatively easy. You can still talk to most people every day, you can gather them all in one room, information flow is unrestricted. But staying under 25 people means for most companies that you are stifling growth.

Once you get above the magical 25 people threshold, you'll find that it is simply impossible to manage the company effectively using a completely flat structure. Also, you'll discover a lot of new problems you never suspected existed before: you'll need internal PR, for instance, as people in one part of the company won't know what people in other parts are doing. There will be myths to dispel, growing animosities, lack of direction. And there is simply no way you can keep your pretty flat structure with 45 people.

I know that 37signals' advice resonates with people. They are the cool kids. But keep in mind they are an exceptional company, in every sense of the word.
Mihar: your startup (popify.me) isn't in your profile. Add it there.
Many people do desire the feature to change themes.

Do they?

A big reason to choose open source in the first place is the flexibility in customization that it brings. It's the opposite of the "Apple mindset" that there's one good way and that's the Steve way.

I think you are mischaracterizing Apple’s mindset. It’s not about finding the one good way, it’s about finding a good way and the assumption that most people are not interested in tweaking that.

I do not think that all open source projects have to slavishly follow some sort of central ideology of maximum customization. There are enough alternatives to Gnome that it would be no problem at all for Gnome to be different. For those who really need it crazy customizability is certainly available.
I should probably take a second run through that classic now. =P
That's a great question!

Stephen and I had the opportunity to speak with Sahil of Gumroads last night and told him we were very impressed by his work. However, we've actually been working on babolog for quite a while and even applied to YC to work on this very project. You can check our updates-log on our site to track our development back to Dec 2010.

While Gumroads offers a pretty nice solution to selling links, we believe we do a better job at solving the problem of e-commerce for digital goods.

Our system is a complete e-commerce solution with a built in affiliate program, storefronts, and an integrated marketplace intended for users who wish to establish a store presence.

We have upmost respect for Sahil and his beautiful work, we've just been working on this for a long time and continue to recognise a different market of customers who want a complete solution for conducting online business.

We look forward to releasing a variety of unique features which are mid-development, like our digital request system, in house digital content creation tools, marketplace plugins, live chatting with store owners, and more!
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For me priorities would be having basic
functionality, like copy/paste, working properly

It really should work. Since ages. Care to elaborate where copy and paste doesn't work in Gnome? Cause that's really a bug.

or how about a task-switching applet (activated
on alt-tab) that can use the mouse to select the
window you want;

You can do that with Gnome 3. Press Alt-Tab, hold down Alt and click around to your app. Works like a charm here.

or desktop notification windows that you can
close (those notifications in Ubuntu are really
obnoxious)

In Gnome 3 (and also Gnome 2 fwiw) you can close the notifications by clicking on them. But even better, in Gnome 3 you can set yourself as busy (click on your name in the top-right corner and select "Busy") so notifications will stay silent in the hidden notification area and won't disturb you.
People are "cheerleading" node.js because they tried it, successfully built something with it and want to give proper credit to their stack.

The existence/prevalence of node.js submissions does not imply that anyone thinks it any more technologically capable than Twisted, Go, Tornado, or eventlet. Node.js just happens to be simpler to install, have more easily accessible documentation and has more of a network effect going for it.
Should now fall back to canvas rendering when webgl isn't supported.
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Ask HN:Is it legal to use "fb" in domain name of a site using FB API?
I am developing a site that will use Facebook Graph API(mainly for login and to get user's friends). The site is social in nature and will extend facebook's functionality.

Is it legal to use "fb" in domain name in such case? e.g., www.fbmeetup.com?
Shouldn't it be titled "Canvas Fractal"? What's inherently HTML5 about this aside from canvas?
Funny, I have seen these guys in a bar a few months ago (in Germany). I didn't talk to them. However, that would've been interesting I guess. Anyways, interesting story.
Nice entreporn!
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I'm developing a mono .net MVC site with a MySQL backend and I am wondering if anyone has had any experience using an ORM with a similar stack?
Aren’t IKEAs linear? I never had any problems navigating an IKEA since there are only two directions to walk to. There are shortcuts (paths which obviously don’t look like the main path) but I always ignore those (except for one – I think every IKEA has a shortcut right at the very beginning that takes you to the end) and just walk on the main path.

I guess my tip for everyone lost in IKEA would be to always stay on the main path and to never use the shortcuts.

I actually prefer this linear design to the completely non-linear designs of many other furniture stores I have been to. I certainly want to look at everything when I’m at IKEA.
I love the demo for it's thought provoking stab in the brain. I love three.js and can't wait to tie it into my own app.

re: WebGL games. The clients will all be "open source" (as they're javascript). What effect do you all think that'll have on the future web-based gaming industry?
Indeed it is! The best message I saw was, "I met my wife on here".
Yes, the Apple mindset assumes that there is a good way and people are not interested in tweaking that. You can agree or disagree with that.

I do agree that a sane set of defaults is good. It should be usable without customization.

But for one, I am interested in tweaking things. From the operating system to how things look. That's why I use open source. Isn't that the original hacker spirit?
We have a tool called "jhbuild" that keeps track of all the dependencies and stuff. In short, just get jhbuild from git.gnome.org, build it and do a "jhbuild bootstreap && jhbuild build".

More complete instruction can be found in the wiki: https://live.gnome.org/Smoketesting

If you want to just check out gnome-shell without the other Gnome 3 stuff, you can find instructions on http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell
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why post this if there is nothing there. You haven't even told us why its better.
haha nice catch -- forgot to edit that config file when pull/merging dev --> production :) I hope you enjoyed the global variable dumps :)
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i was wondering about that too. he later mentioned that the format is bad and that .net bytecode has a better format, so i think maybe he didnt mean bytecode in general but the format of jvm-bytecode.
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It is but various Open Source projects do want to cater to many more people than just hackers. There are several open source desktop environments, they don’t all have to have hackers as their target group, have they? Just looking at Gnome’s website I would argue that maybe Gnome just isn’t for you and that there is nothing wrong with that.
It makes me cringe because there is no scientific evidence at all that artificial food additives are bad for kids. Quite the opposite actually, artificial additives are tested to death before they are allowed on the market. It has no relation to the Montessori philosophy, I was just giving an example of the "kind of person" the typically teacher is there, basing decisions more on feelings than rational evidence.
It's not so much that you get lost... it's that you have to walk past every other item in the store.. Compared to say "Harvey Norman" where if you want a couch -- you walk to the couches section..
It really should work. Since ages. Care
to elaborate where copy and paste doesn't
work in Gnome?

Copy something in one app, close it, then try pasting in another app -- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, depending on the app or on its mood, and this behavior has been going on for ages, up until Ubuntu 10.10, which I'm using.

I'm happy to find that Gnome 3 has usability improvements. I'll definitely try it out.
Please note that this should be changed to: "Did you get invited to YC for S11?"
This reminds me a bit of http://www.tradebit.com/. I'll have to bookmark this, since when I last used tradebit I found myself wishing someone would make a site which blew it out of the water.
I couldn't find an obvious link on the gnome(3).org sites, but there are detailed release notes:

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.0/
My point is that the proliferation of HN posts regarding node.js is not reflective or driven by a host of new and significant improvements that it brings to the table. I suppose one response is this shouldn't be surprising, since anything implemented after the 70s could have been done with C instead of language X.

But my complaint is that it seems a lot of attention is paid to projects which are not actually doing new things with node.js, just things that have already been done with other technologies.

Actually, this comment sums it up much better than my comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1549023
What is the purpose of the large black Kaabah structure in the middle?
I second this. I think art has the effect of starting conversations. If it makes people talk and think about things in a different way, then, you've started a process of something (potentially) greater.

Yes, something like this is easy for people (easier than doing something perhaps). They'll participate because it's there and there's no commitment (you just write things on the wall). But, what of the people who pass by it and, as Dysiode has said, what if it sparks an idea in them?

It may not directly change the world but it sure can plant the seeds that do.
Sorry about that. You are right... I should have been clearer.
Ahm! Looking forward to a Rails Gem hack of this plugin.
The first thing that I thought of was "hasn't this guy and his wife heard of cell phones?"
I'm working on fixing a critical bug that my beta users discovered. As soon as I get this next build out, I'll email you an apk. Thanks!
I had always thought this kind of 'motivational' attempts are too simple-minded to work. Then one day, while under a lot of pressure and discouragement, I happened to see a man on the road with a T-shirt that said 'Never give up', and it really made a difference in my mindset.

So, I now believe that tiny things like this can mean a lot to someone who's on the edge and can turn them around.
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Percentage of singe-founder startup discussion: 59.5%

Percentage of meta Quora / question format discussion: 40.5%

The people have spoken.
I know this isn't quite what either of you have said, but someone needs to point this out

"real work" != "billable work"

"Everyone does billable work" seems great from the $ POV. That doesn't mean that people who are never billable aren't critical too.
That should no longer be required. Some cards are blacklisted due to older drivers. Try updating your drivers to the lastest ones from NVIDIA or ATI. If that doesn't --ignore-gpu-blacklist might work but if your card is blacklisted it might crash your browser.
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You can tell that by just looking at Gnome's website?

I've been using Gnome for >10 years now. I've never had any big complaints about it (well except for gedit not having a "replace in selection" feature, but there's a plugin for that). Gnome has excellent customization and theming facilities through GTK themes.

I also think the Gnome defaults are pretty good. I've also used KDE and like it but tend to choose Gnome as I'm used to it.

Apple, however, I wouldn't buy because it locks me in too much for my taste. I don't like cages, even cosy golden ones :)
I can't answer for the grandparent, but to me if you really, really care you make it happen.

Not having the means is an excuse, not a reason.
That was far too amusing. I found it interesting that we grouped on one spot on the monolith. I ventured out away from everyone twice, once apparently with the same person.
In Apache I set env variables for dev/staging/prod and pick-up on those in config file.

Much better than having to work with a systems guy to say "svn up, then open the config file and un-comment the production settings at the bottom" or similar, some variant of which I used to do all the time.
Great! Sabalaba and I have lived the chaos of managing six different services to get a simple store up and running. We created it because it was something we needed four ourselves. We are honoured to have the opportunity to make digital e-commerce as easy as it should be -- and as effective too...

But to do that we need your help. We eagerly wait your criticisms and feedback. If you feel this product is for you, you're the one I want to hear from! There's no point designing tons of flashy features they don't make the experience better.

Thanks you for your interest and we hope to receive your feedback soon!
That has existed for years.
Looks pretty interesting. I usually use git add --interactive to accomplish most of this. Or just use tmux to copy the whole filename.
What if you want to create an instance of other type of dictionary? {} works only for built-in dicts.
Close your browser. Open the console. Open your browser with:

google-chrome --enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist
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Need a better way do inline quoting. Gmail insists on top-posting even when I select the part I want to reply to, it's several extra steps to cite and trim properly, especially if you want to reply to more than one part of a message.
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Thanks for the excellent feedback Huppie!

We're sorry for the inconvenience! We'll work right away on getting a list of frequently asked questions compiled together. If there are any other questions which you think deserve special attention, please let me know at mek@babolabs.com.

In the -near- future, you will be able to plug in merchant accounts and use credit card. Our goal is to accept as many forms of payment as possible. Our next step is to enable you to purchase babolog products and receive payments from your and others' internal system balances.
Java fail.

Here is a link to the PDF version:
http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1967009&type=pdf...
Right, but Google is one of the biggest websites in the world, operating in nearly every country, etc. etc., it shouldn't be at all surprising that they have thousands of engineers, even though the productivity of each will be lower than it would in a smaller organization.
This turns my laptop into a space heater. Nice, but not the sort of thing I'd want to run for extended periods of time.
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That would require him to fund the development of a time machine.

Or perhaps it has already happened.
I had the same experience, but with Safari instead of Firefox. Really wonder why this is happening.
They almost certainly have FB trademarked, there's no way they'll allow you to extend their service while using part of their name.
I wonder if there's any hope of ever getting type classes in OCaml. Then you'd be able to have stuff like a single "print" function you can give any type of value that can be turned into a string representation.
Is there a secure version of WebSockets yet?

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/12/websockets-disabled-in-fire...
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Please show me how a server can send two consecutive messages to a long-polling client without requiring the client to make a request between the receipt of message 1 and message 2.