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The good thing about reviews on Amazon is that they are by other customers who actually had to shell out for the product. If there was any suggestion that they were being written to get freebies, wouldn't they lose whatever credibility they currently have?
Chip Startups Abandon Moore’s Law
A guy tries to find the origins of a Windows desktop image
You need to not copy the look of weheartit.com (visual bookmarking service) unless you produced that too. That'd be a good start
It would be more interesting if he'd actually tried this himself, and was blogging about the success or otherwise after the event. I can't access the link at the moment, so I don't know if the other guy actually gave it a go or not.
You don't have to build a working implementation. You can patent a design.
Yeah I'd like to know too
A Brief History of Hard AI
Hulu is only available in the US

You can work around this with Blossom:

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/04/06/blossom-tor-an...
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For first time in recorded history, Arctic becomes an island as ice melts
nice pun..
The unexpected upside of nuclear bomb tests
Test your Color IQ
Microsoft Skymarket coming for Windows Mobile 7 apps
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SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
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This goes to prove that good writing can make just about anything seem griping.
Makes a big assumption that I don't think is questioned enough.

That you know who the "right people" are or even what your product is.

Might not be as true with products but how many times have you heard about software or website. "We started out to do X by Y is what users latched onto so we did that instead.

Also why target such a niche when you can target everyone with an internet connection.

His example might work it's expensive and time consuming. Better to just upload sample tracks and even let people pirate your whole album. Your real fans(if any, you might just suck) will buy your next albulm, your merchandise and go to your show. They'll also spread the word.
Ubicom, a 12-year-old startup .... ?
What's new in Python 2.6
Awesome Inc: Y Combinator as a Reality TV Show?
Google on Google Chrome
Perhaps this isn't as interesting as it seems to me, but I thought that this was cool: (about Facebook chat)

"We had the technology running for about a month [detecting who was online] before we had the user interface visible"

Rolling out a feature that gradually seems like a great method.
Seriously, do these guys ever have an original thought of their own?
Scored 18. All my troubles were in the Greens. Anyone know if that's significant? Monitor? Or I just suck at green?
Whenever Windows desktop images are mentioned, I'm reminded of the Flickr guys who Microsoft commissioned to shoot a few images to use for Vista's desktop images. This guy made his entire shoot free for download on Flickr and many of the images are amazing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwishh/sets/72157594510047657...
nice. Here's the motherlode of JS cheats:

http://www.scottklarr.com/topic/95/javascriptajax-cheat-shee...
And that dedication can get you to the end of the rainbow.
I scored 80 on my CRT, but 0 on my LCD. Obviously the monitor is a very determining factor. So either you re a bit weaker in the greens, either it's your monitor that is. I would bet on the second possibility.
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
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Exactly, in a language where it didn't matter the code would just look like crap over time where as python would force you to face the problem.

Not to mention can't you fix that sort of in consistency in vim or Emacs with a few commands?
Ask HN: Project Management site I can submit tasks via email?
Does anyone have suggestions for a project management software site/suite that allows me to submit tasks via email/SMS? The problem with the current models that I've tried (Zoho, Basecamp) is that I have to stop my thought process, wait for the pages to load, login, and then I can enter my info. I just want to fire an email off and have it be added to a project.

I did a search in google and found this: Wrike (http://www.wrike.com/benefits-for-executives.jsp). They actually have what a want - they call it "Wrike's Intelligent Email Engine (tm)" (Whew - glad you trademarked that!). They seem reasonable - has anyone used?
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One thing the article does not mention is that maybe Fortune 500 companies do not want Google reading their email.
If the Benchmarks Game (née the Shootout) is a game, why not use a game rating system?
ELO chess ratings for Alioth computer language shootout
Pinax: componentizing Django
What are the constraints? If it's processing time or memory, I'd choose the XOR solution (which is brilliant). But it could also be the time to solve the problem. This would mean that the first working solution that comes to mind would be the best. Or the solution should be transparent to non-programmers, which probably eliminates the XOR hack. It could also be the joy while coding...
I'm not sure the name works, w/o reading the comments I expected this to be a book store website
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He says spend 10k doing this instead of 10k on useless ads. This shouldn't change your business model, just how you might spend your advertising budget.
Is Steve Jobs moonlighting in customer service?
Depending on what you consider to be "Project Management Software", Joel Spolsky's FogBugz (http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/) will let you submit tasks via email.
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Well, I struggled to finish the piece as the author piled on the smilies and adjectives on this already heavily taxed internet camels rustic back or so I was told...
If you liked this, I highly recommend the New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.
I played Nine Mens Morris with my grandmother when I was growing up (we called it "Mühle"). She never gave me an inch just because I was a kid, and I still remember with great vividness the first time I ever beat her.

A few years ago I wrote a java applet that plays the game. It's buggy and unpolished, but usable.

http://pi-guy.net/games/muehle/
The same goes for utility ([Edit: providing typically, when valuable, broad] protection of gadget, process, [Edit: software], etc.) patents:

http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2007/10/file-early-file-...

In Pfaff, Justice Stevens wrote:

"Second, the invention must be ready for patenting. That condition may be satisfied in at least two ways: by proof of reduction to practice before the critical date; or by proof that prior to the critical date the inventor had prepared drawings or other descriptions of the invention that were sufficiently specific to enable a person skilled in the art to practice the invention." (Id., at 12)

All one has to do is show how one skilled in the art can build the thing (or perform the process). The actual building of a working model is not legally necessary.

By the way, these are the current (2004) USPTO utility-patent categories:
http://www.uspto.gov/go/taf/govt/class_list/class_name_gov.h...

Unlike utility patents, design patents are usually narrow, and therefore [Edit: usually] worthless:
http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2007/10/different-patent...

A design patent only covers the ornamental outward appearance of an article of manufacture and thus provides very narrow protection.
The point being that you can't patent an idea "do X" you have to have a "way to do X".
Transactions in Memory
Olefoo,

I see that you are located on the West Coast. Not charging to apply is the prevailing sentiment there. The East Coast does not share that same view. Many serious Angle groups charge a fee as a bozo filter. $250 isn't going to break the bank for a serious entrepreneur, but it will make a less-serious one think twice. You are right, in the ideal world the entreprenuer is doing the investor a favor. The fact of the matter is, that most of the deal flow that comes through is not quality. Check out the stats here: http://angelsoft.net/industry Only 24% of deals are even making it to the screening process. If groups did not charge a a fee, that % would plummet.

Scott,

Angelsoft is not a matching service, it is a software solution that investment groups use to manage their deal flow. The Group Finder is just a list of groups that use the Angelsoft platform, and therefore accept the common Angelsoft application.
This has inspired a minor quest of my own (though it probably isn't going to be as epic as his). Who said "Nobody with a decent map needs rainbows."?

Google returns 3 hits, all of which are that article.
As it happens I was looking at the edit history for the Sarah Palin article a few days ago. A more complete (dare I say less biased) article would have mentioned that no sooner had this particular individual started making flattering edits to the article, other people also started making unflattering edits to the article. Current edit wars include whether to mention the fact that she smoked weed, or to link to the dailykos theory that her youngest son is actually her grandson.

Are they linked to the Obama campaign? Who knows? Realistically it's no surprise that people are going to attempt to use wikipedia as a campaign tool, and the kind of people with enough political motivation and free time to edit wikipedia for their candidate's benefit are exactly the same people with enough political motivation and free time to be campaign volunteers.

Another recent controversy I noticed was on the William Ayers article. I went there the other day to try and get some facts on the Obama-Ayers connection, only to find that there was no mention of Obama in the Ayers article at all, and of course a huge debate in the comments about whether it's worth mentioning. Going back there again today I find that the Obama-Ayers connection is not only mentioned but has been spun off into its own article.
Ask HN: International currency support on day one?
Should a web app that launches have support for multiple currencies from day one?

To add further details, it is for a time tracking application and you can assign an hourly rate to your projects.
Silverlight, a brief overview
Python's compiler module, AST's, auto-complete,
I stopped after a few paragraphs. He's trying to be gonzo, Hunter S Thompson, you know, but he can't quite do it...something's missing. Or maybe not at all, I just read an essay by the guy so that could be influencing my thoughts on writing at the moment.
Does anyone have solid numbers on the overall level of background radiation in the environment (air, drinking water, etc) over time? A short search and I found this fascinating site that shows (at least for the various types of radiation I queried (tritium, iodine, all alpha, all beta) that over the past 40 years levels have been steadily declining.

http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/erams_query.simple_output?Lloca...
I'm not a very big fan of Remember of Milk (I think their UI is super over-complex) but someone very nontechnical was just mentioning to me that they support email. This is notable, because nontechnical people almost never talk to others about cool technology -- so it must work well enough to be notable.

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/sending/emailinb...
This article seems to suffer from even more than the usual level of "The author has no clue about the science" Syndrome, especially the bits about gravitational lensing.

Now, I thought that galaxies were so sparse that most of the interactions two "colliding" galaxies would have would be gravitational (rather than an actual collision). In this case, the finding would seem to imply that dark matter isn't affected by gravity the same way, which would be darned weird.
So soon we'll have yet another browser to check for compatibility issues in CSS and javascript. Great.
'gripping' you mean, i take it? in which case, yes indeed!
Coding style coordinate system: where are you?
Old releases of everything
I don't see the need for Google to try and compete in a space where there is already plenty of competition and Open Source innovation.

Maybe they are tired of giving Mozilla Corp Ad Words money for Firefox searches.
If something looked that awesome while it was trying to kill me, I would let it.
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Once there was a man who went on vacation and left his neighbor to take care of his house while he was away.

One week into the vacation, the man phoned his neighbor. "How's it going?" he asked.

"Well," said the neighbor, "I'm afraid your cat is dead."

The man was, naturally, shocked and horrified. "That's terrible!" he said. "You shouldn't have just told me flat out like that. Couldn't you have broken it to me gently? You could have said something like, 'Well, your cat got stuck on the roof. We called the fire department to get him down, but the cat slipped and fell. He landed badly and was knocked unconscious. We rushed him to the vet, but there was nothing to be done, so I'm afraid we had to put him to sleep, and he went blissfully to heaven.'"

Two weeks later the man called the neighbor again. "How's it going?" he asked.

There was a pause on the other end of the phone. Then the neighbor said, "well, your mother-in-law got stuck on the roof..."

---

Anyway, enough with the old jokes. What I'm trying to say is that I don't see anything wrong with maxklein's critique. It's not mean. It's just blunt. And it's barely even "Linus Torvalds blunt" -- it's certainly not "Philip Greenspun blunt", and it isn't even visible on the Steve Jobs bluntness scale.

Maybe it could have been more elegantly blunt. I certainly aspire to that, but it's still better to be inelegantly blunt -- it's better to be inelegantly blunt and completely wrong, so long as you're being honest -- than it is to just say "gosh, it sure is a website! great job, guys!" and let the poor folks run the risk of being schooled, quietly and politely, by the market as they bleed to death over the course of two or three years.
Many consumer chips targeted at consumer applications, like those above, don’t have to be that fast. Other types of chips that don’t require speed as a differentiator, such as power management chips or RF chips that have antenna modifications, are also viable targets for older manufacturing processes.

It's the long tail of lithography.
Well, now you have a scraper! I'm sure it will come in handy soon enough.
Your approach forces the user to always read the full text message and then select yes/no, merely out of fear of redundancy.

The Apple approach focuses on the action targets first, which 99% of users will go to (i.e. after they've done it the first time). The verbose message is only there as a point of clarity.

When you get into user-interaction design, you learn that redundancy is important. You don't put something in one place and make them look for it. You put it where they'd naturally look.

For example, if you go to a large store, masking tape won't be only in one place because people are seeking different "core" uses. So the same brand/package of tape will be found in the hardware section, the painting section, the crafts section, and school supplies.

The fallacy with Boolean yes/no buttons for every dialog window is that if the user doesn't read the message, they may not get the results they expected. For example, you try to print, and the computer freezes and wants to shut down. You think you're printing, so you hit "yes" and shut down the computer instead. A slightly ridiculous example, but you get the point...
I propose that YC have a third session each year. On Christmas Island.
Does this help you?:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf05.htm

Most radiation exposure is from natural sources. These include: radioactivity in rocks and soil of the earth's crust; radon, a radioactive gas from the earth and present in the air; and cosmic radiation. About one quarter of natural radiation comes from the human body itself. The human environment has always been radioactive and accounts for up to 85% of the annual human radiation dose.

Radiation arising from human activities typically accounts for up to 25% of the public's exposure every year. This radiation is no different from natural radiation except that it can be controlled. X-rays and other medical procedures account for most exposure from this quarter. The rest comes from coal burning, appliances, and other industrial and research procedures.

Less than 1% of exposure is due to the fallout from past testing of nuclear weapons or the generation of electricity in nuclear, as well as coal and geothermal power plants.

That link includes a table of background-radiation by nation in millisieverts (mSv).
I wasn't that impressed.

The cheat sheet includes a bunch of stuff like events and XHR, etc.

Maybe this guy is some kind of masochist but most people don't roll their own wrappers for these browser inconsistent features, they use a library. If you are writing new handling code for XHR and events constantly you're doing it wrong. Seriously.

Rest of it looks ok, though.
They just renewed the contract with Mozilla. That's got nothing to do with it. And there's not nearly enough competition in browsers. Sure, there are lots of projects, but few of them are serious contenders for the average Windows user -- maybe Opera and Firefox qualify, but that's about it.

If you've ever tried to write a complex web app you immediately bang your head against the low, low ceiling afforded by the browser. Google knows this as well as anybody and it impedes adoption of Google apps like Gmail or Docs. Making the browser into a better platform is good for their business -- note they are giving away their spiffy new JS engine and the whole thing is open source.

If Firefox adopted their innovations tomorrow or one-upped them, I'm sure the Chrome team would be very happy.
You say "Also why target such a niche when you can target everyone with an internet connection."

The answer is, that targeting everyone with an internet connection is not targeting. It's called carpet bombing the internet, and it's expensive. Invariably, you can't carpet bomb the whole internet, so you only carpet bomb a tiny faction, which ends up being chosen not by smarts, but by chance and the nature of whatever advertising you are doing.

Even if you just upload tracks and let people "pirate" your whole album, you are leaving it up to chance that the people want your music will find it. People do not download every free track out there and listen to every single one just because it's free. So putting it out there for free is not an automatic answer -- it's better than changing $15 a CD and then just waiting, but it's still a pretty basic attempt.

The example given is expensive and time consuming. It doesn't have to expensive in money, you could buy used B-52 CDs and re-sell them at cost, for example, but it will be time consuming and take care and attention to detail to do it right. But seems likely to me that any success in internet marketing will take time, money (or even more time), and care and miticulous attention to detail. It's just not as easy as it was when banner ads were first invented.
Seeing as other people sounded like they had a hard time, I took a long time taking the test. My eyes hurt after a while (I think it's because the light cones get saturated) so I'm taking a break. After ten minutes of taking this, I literally couldn't see straight; the lines on the page looked like squiggles.

Update: got 19 (best is 0). Small problems across the map, in yellows, cyans, light purples, and pinks.

http://i35.tinypic.com/2lm6mi1.jpg
Probably not. New currencies give you 1) lots of new announcements to make, and 2) a chance to ration your traffic so you aren't swamped on day one.

For transactions, it's different because of network effects. But if it's just individuals assigning currency values to time, there should be a more linear relationship between currency-users and app-users. Also, if they really need to they can convert the numbers.
Something huge in here in case you missed it:

"To reduce memory usage, the garbage collector will now clear internal free lists when garbage-collecting the highest generation of objects. This may return memory to the operating system sooner."

For someone building long running processes or loading data generating millions of unique ints or floats over and over, this is major (though still hard to believe it was ever an issue).
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Google to Offer its Own Browser: Chrome
4 is pretty good. :)

I would have thought that brightness would have been the main factor in a monitor, surely all the hues are relative. You aren't trying to pick something colour realistic from life, you are just ranking relative to the rest of the screen.
Score 37. On my laptop LCD. This was pretty damn hard :P

As a geek nitpick: Not sure I'd refer to this as "colour IQ", as I don't see how this relates to intelligence.
Anyone got a mirror? It's crawling...
Heck, our caveman brains taught us that size is a significant quality. If Ugg kills a rabbit, and Garr kills an elephant, Garr is definitely the better hunter. But what really matters is organization... Galaxies are a chaotic mess compared with a rabbit.
I think it'd be more fun to write a bit of javascript to do it.
> At Wal-Mart, we had the belief that we only roll forward, never back.

What about Mr. Smiley?!!
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I scored 0. My strategy: first group the colors roughly by their "greenness", "brownness", etc., and then blur vision by going slightly cross-eyed, making it easier to see faults in the gradient. Adjust accordingly.
I scored 7 on my macbook, also having problems with greens.

The human eye is usually able to distinguish more shades of green than any other color -- think hunters in forested areas. Perhaps this is changing as more people stare at their monitors all day or bask in the CRT blue. Also more people are near sighted these days.
If you have problems with red and green tones, take this test (if you haven't already):

http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/ishihara.html
The graphic presentation is accessible through http://blogoscoped.com.nyud.net/google-chrome/ .
This is cool and all, but did they have to choose "Chrome" for the name? No reason to do that other than to cause confusion, I think.
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Well, assuming it uses a pristine WebKit backend, you should only have to test in one browser with the same WebKit build. :) I guess that might be idealistic thinking, but hopefully it pans out.
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Scored a 4 on my laptop LCD, all problems in the cyans. I found that it helped to do it kind of like a MergeSort: separate hues into 3 groups at the extremes / middle, sort each group separately, then correct any errors where they overlap.

http://i33.tinypic.com/650keu.png
I only did the first bar, but I got all of those right. Some of them might have just been luck though.
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It's true that the stars in colliding galaxies don't actually collide, but they are looking at the collision between two clusters of galaxies. Clusters contain hot, X-ray emitting gas. And gas does collide, whereas the dark matter passes through.