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Which designers do you respect the most? (Please provide links to their work.)
Quick Win: Get Your Conditions in Order
That's a fair question - however, I'm employed full time and just can't spend all of my free time working on apps, even for money :)

But you do have a good point about someone else possibly seeing value... however, many of the ideas I've been approached with are of the form "like Twitter, but for Poker players!" or something similarly silly.

The problem I see with these types of projects is that they are typically championed by people who have no real understanding about how software is developed, a la clientsfromhell.net. Those are situations I just don't want to get involved in.
I think things were a lot better when AdWords was less expensive back in the day (say around 2003-2005).
>... after creating monopolies in the first place

If you are really trying to advance the theory that "the market", left to itself, won't generate monopoly after monopoly, perhaps you could point us to actual examples of those golden times when the absence of regulation served consumers more than they served business oligarchy.
For the bigger picture of use case mentioned here, what's wrong with IRC. And for the specific use case mentioned in the blog as in School/College, I don't understand how hiding in a closet can relate to productivity. This instead might encourage people to single out someone who is already low and take a dig. As mentioned, people can log in as anonymous but nothing stops you from taking someone's name out there!
Final Cut Pro: The New Class
No idea although I imagine it's somewhere on the AnyAsq road map. I've added the question here: http://anyasq.com/7-im-building-anyasq-right-now

If there's something specific you would like to ask me, feel free to ask it here.
What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz
The malware of medical science
The point is to have multiple layout/decoration algorithms to toggle between, depending on which aspect of the code the user wants to focus on.
Here's one article that discussed the study:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/potato...
I have been using it today and I must say it's pretty good in term of features and it seems to have also added some features to my gmail account (like a rapportive widget) and changed the look and feel of all the google experience....
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Well thanks for saying that, we are excited to have him.
Paid App Downloads on Android Up 2% Since April, Says Chomp
An interesting read. I'm born and raised in the UK, 23 years old and would love to move to NYC in the next few years. The problem for people outside of the UK is always going to be the immigration process - I'm having trouble figuring out the chicken and egg problem (job first, or move first?) and how exactly I should go about moving.

That aside, I found this article interesting, especially with regards to rent. I loved every second I've spent in NYC, hopefully I'll be there to work eventually.
Sometimes. :) They are faster to multiply, divide, exponentiate, and take roots of. But they are a lot harder to add and subtract, and of course it is somewhat less accurate.
Don't forget that even organic, local, grass-fed cattle still produce methane [1], which is 25x worse than CO2 [2].

[1] http://www.epa.gov/rlep/faq.html#1

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=methane+100+year+gwp
> where the primary calories come from vegetables

A kilogram of spinach has 230 cals. How many kilos do you plan to eat?

Fats are a more practical source of calories.
Wait, but Facebook credits are virtual currency that are leveraged by Zynga.

Without a "farmville" styled killer app, Friendster isn't going very far.
It won't even out from everywhere - I would say that living for $450 a month in a decent place in an urban part of a major American city is abnormally inexpensive.

The article's author came from Seattle - and I can say without a doubt that this city is expensive. Not NYC expensive, but if you took a nice place in Bellevue or Kirkland, and included the cost you're paying for your car - it would come up to NYC rent.

I'm in the middle of a relocation to SF right now, and equivalent rents in SF are maybe ~30% higher than here in Seattle... When you're in the ballpark as SF, you're an expensive city.
Why Box.net’s Aaron Levie is wrong about Apple’s iCloud
IANAL but I think it would be legal to ask; we're investing in people's startups, not hiring them. The reason we don't ask about such things is that we don't care. Interviews are only 10 minutes long. We need to spend that time talking about the startup.
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Except, perhaps, the firm of Jeffrey Lake of San Diego.

Have you read the article?

'The document filed in court today indicates that Ceglia has acquired a new lawyer, Jeffrey Lake of San Diego. Contacted about the change by paidContent, Lake didn’t say anything about why the change took place, but did say in an email that he would have a press release out tomorrow, adding: “In the meantime we are pleased to confirm that our firm has been retained to represent Mr. Ceglia to bring this case to trial so that a jury may review the evidence and decide the case on its merits.” '
There was recently a poll:what database your company is using? Which within the commentd riak was mentioned mant times
> In the US, if I'm not mistaken, most of the phone companies were and are at least somewhat private entities that invested private money in putting in the lines

Most of the phone companies were Ma Bell, which had a government-sanctioned natural monopoly from 1936 to its breakup in 1984.
Penny Stocks to Watch & Stock to buy (June 30, 2011)
I've bought groceries exactly once in the 7 months I've lived in NYC. It's just too damned convenient to go on SeamlessWeb.
I'm only talking about this one piece, just like he was. If you expand it to other pieces, it's a different conversation.
DailyDigital launches marketing site as private beta nears
The government broke up AT&T into a bunch of little companies

After establishing it as a federal monopoly in 1934. (And in TFA, we're talking British Telecom.)

Similarly, there are a lot of municipal agreements in the US where one company gets the exclusive right to handle local phone or cable service within a city or region. More companies or smaller companies doesn't mean any benefit for consumers when they still just end up choosing between "the phone company" and "the cable company" as designated by law.
Updating Your Blog Footer Copyright Notice: Why and How
Square gets $100M, valued at $1B
Startups for subversives - 7 new rules
I think "salary calculators" do not reflect reality when you're comparing places which are qualitatively very different.

For instance, living in NYC or the other big dense cities involves making trade-offs that don't even make sense in a place like Austin (and vice-versa). Yes, in NYC, your living quarters will be much smaller, and no, you won't need a car to be comfortable.

The cost of living for other stuff outside of housing and transportation is going to be highly variable depending on your lifestyle. Again, it is all about trade-offs, whether or not the trade-offs are desirable depends on the individual.
The issue of anonymous slander is obviously a big one, certainly not limited to our site alone. Having some aspect of identified group information may in fact limit that type of trolling, but that remains to be seen. Everything can be used irresponsibly.
Your first point speaks to the question of anonymity's overall purpose. Wanting to be anonymous isn't always a sign of weakness- it's a reality for a lot of confident, intelligent people. Productivity, in our view, is hampered by the absence of contributions from people who have great ideas to share.
The ultimate ethical/philosophical thought experiment
I'm in Alphabet City and my favorite drinking nights are Tuesday and Wednesday by far. Bars aren't crowded, you can always find interesting people to talk to, and it's generally just a lot more fun. The only issue being that if the bar is too underpopulated, it may close early.
Right on - my wife and I basically do the same thing: grow some of our own veggies, talk with local farmers at the farmers' market, etc.

I also think that lowering our carbon and environmental footprint by eating less meat is the right thing to do.
Well, the energy per reaction of p+11B is 8.68 MeV, or 837 GJ/mol. This is about 230 MWh/mol, so that would make sense.

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/reCenter.jsp?z=2&n=2

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&authuser=0&...

edit: Another source for "8.68 MeV", which doesn't require math:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Criteria_and_can...
Your post in Translation Party:

I (translation of a la carte party) have achieved a balance
between the universal and Google, and I need to translate
the conversation. Not only, Blip.fm, from how to move from
the language of two additional multi balance.

I think two languages is bad enough.
Rybka, the world's best chess engine, caught plagiarizing open-source software
OnLive reveals new approach to wireless; Rearden topples Shannon's Law
It's an Epidemic
Cloud Coding and Beyond: Web Development Apps in the Chrome Web Store
HP ‘talking to a number of companies’ about potential webOS licensing
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684620
15% of Hispanic adults own an ebook reader vs. 12% in the general population
At Yammer we use Riak to power our notifications backend. More details available here…

http://blog.basho.com/2011/03/28/Riak-and-Scala-at-Yammer/
> After establishing it as a federal monopoly in 1934. (And in TFA, we're talking even worse entities.)

In order to regulate it (putting it under jurisdiction of the FCC) as Bell was already a natural monopoly by this point, even after the Kingsbury Commitment.
In the "Need to Know" version of this story they talked with a BT representative about how things had worked out for BT after they were forced into local loop unbundling.

It worked out great for BT. They make more money leasing out the lines and leasing out space in their switching centers for the third party ISP's equipment than they were making providing monopoly ISP services directly.

It truly is a case of everyone wins. BT makes more money. Third party companies can start ISPs and make money. Consumers get plans that fit their needs better and cost less.
The Civil Code is just in Quebec. That's because that region of the country was originally owned by France and centuries later it's still French-speaking and uses a France-derived legal system for all but criminal matters.

There are many English speakers in Quebec (one of Canada's top law schools is located in the largest city in Quebec, which is known for being English-speaking...) and so you should be able to find a lot more materials in English than Scandinavian countries but I wouldn't know.

You're likely already aware of it but Louisiana also has the historical France link and civil code connection but I know much less about how that system works.
Hanoi Real Estate
Here you go: http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/pi/pi-alg Now you can calculate any individual digit of pi without having to find any of the others! Unfortunately, it only works in base 16 or base 2, not base 10.
Hi, I’m a UX Developer - You’re a what?
"Get your campaign dialed in where you are making at least $2 per $1 you spend." -- if you can do that, then you are in the perfect place to take a loan / favorable investment.
Show HN: Weekend Project - Sencha Touch Hourly Weather WebApp
I've moved around a fair bit to a number of different cities, and IMHO these "cost of living comparison" reports are mostly bullshit.

One might be able to make some good comparisons about rent, since that's so heavily market-driven... but groceries? I find that the price of groceries varies so widely across any city, or hell, any neighborhood that one cannot possibly make a reasonable claim to "a bottle of beer costs $X", nor "a delivered pizza costs $Y".

Take where I'm right now for example - your link has the broad area "Seattle-Bellevue-Everett" - which covers every single neighborhood in Seattle, from the cheapest in the Central District all the way to the most expensive in Belltown. And then it moves north to heavily blue-collar areas like Everett and software-engineer-land like Bellevue.

How can any reasonable pricing index be established like that?
Maybe someone could whip us up a diagram using that JS lib that was on here earlier today, that might shed some light on the issue.
President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism
I hadn't noticed this. Thank you - I'll need to take a look.
Cargo Noir: a new Days of Wonder boardgame
"Suppose you had an automatic tool that optimizes Java code for your target platform before execution. Free of resource constraints inherent to run time optimizers, it processes all the code and optimizes it well.

You feed the application's classes to the tool, which optimizes them for performance and saves the results to disk. Now, you can deploy your Java application in optimized form so that it runs fast from the start on target systems.

...

Using the Excelsior JET Optimizer, you convert the classes into highly optimized x86 code and create a native executable for Windows or Linux. This technique is called Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compilation. "

http://www.excelsior-usa.com/jetinternals.html
Haven't taken a close look at your product but what I would find useful is an API for generating those queries that I can use within my own tools while developing simpleDB apps although this use case might be just for a particular project I have in mind.
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Hi, I'm a novice in your field. I've read about your field in the popular media, and have romantic notions about becoming extremely successful in your field, even though I have 8 years less experience than even a recent graduate. Let me tell you some cliche ideas I've summarized from reading blogs, even though you probably have decades or more experience than I do. Ok, now go ahead and ask me ANYTHING. Anything at all!
> Most of the phone companies were Ma Bell, which had a government-sanctioned natural monopoly from 1936 to its breakup in 1984.

If it was natural, why was a government sanction necessary?
is the speed hit (factor 2-5) really that bad? do haskell programmers have experience that confirms that?

and would it be possible to somehow switch this on and off dynamically, so that a single "pypy" can adapt automatically if multiple threads start?

and how will this affect a stable, well supported [edit: full library], "final" release of pypy (especially, p3)? is it going to remove effort/resources from a GIL version? i get the impression it's getting close to stable/easy to use and it would be a pity to lose that.

[edit: ps, otherwise, this sounds most excellent]
The reason locovores no longer make "food miles" a central justification is that it has been thoroughly debunked. Go back a few years and you will see "food miles" being used all over the place in the eat local arguments.
Agreed. ;)

I am no expert by any means, so feedback is always welcome and I am always looking to improve.
Try the "Photoshop Classroom in a Book" by Adobe. It is simple and you can go through the entire material and design a basic project in less than a week.

Next thing you could try after completing that book is to take a real life project - like designing a magazine cover (though that is better done with Illustrator + InDesign) - and go over a web tutorial....
Startup Apture Wants To Change How The Web Works
I'd really question the "extremely low" part.

Animals are at least an order of magnitude more expensive in pure energy inputs to successfully grow than veggies (this becomes apparent if you compare land usage between the two purely in solar wattage).
Not to repeat the same "then do it yourself" thing, but if it were really so important to so many corporations, wouldn't one of them have done it (or hired/sponsored someone to do it) by now? I'm just getting the impression that, for all the yelling, it's not that big a deal.
I have a problem with drinking too much soda. I often find myself drinking more than I'd want to.
Want to put a dollar figure on the Enron/Worldcom implosions?

How about if we threw a couple of those into the 2008 disaster, same time as Lehman collapsed? What's the cost there?

People are really, really bad at pricing catastrophic events.

Not to say that the bill couldn't be cleaned up, probably. But the conservative half of the aisle seems to be more interested in talkshow ideological invective than sucker's games like "fixing stuff".
Fair enough but maybe a higher bill rate would change your mind. Quote a high enough price that you're happy to do it.

It's a win-win because they'll either leave you alone or pay you lots of money!
I assume by the lack of a Linux screenshot nothing was worth viewing there. It's quite sad, but I think just about every browser I've used so far on Linux had a much crummier looking UI than it does on other platforms. When on a mac or in windows the browser feels custom tailored to that particular environment, when in linux it feels like a cheap port that was called "finished" as soon as it became functional enough.
If you don't actively moderate comments (which can be very labor intensive), then why have them at all?

Comments can enhance an article (or discussion), but most times they seem like a subtraction.
There might be better examples - but right now Ballard. 3bdr, 2br, loft, more sq feet, garage, in great school district, garden, separate deck, washer, dryer = <$2K. Probably pay $4K to 5K in NYC (Park Slope). 35 min commute to work (or I can cycle)
article makes an interesting point, but "both" would be better than either alone (something certainly possible here in santiago, chile - fresh, local food is one of the best things about this place. y no hay nada mas chileno que un poroto ;o)
If he plagiarized it, why is it better? This is sour grapes.
Paul Buchheit at Startup School 08. This talk continues to inspire me
If you have a bachelors degree in a useful field it's very easy with a NAFTA (TN) Visa.
They probably get paid to implement Facebook connect on their million+ userbases though. So it may make more sense that way. Although to be fair allowing access to 750m (fb) users is a sensible enough argument.
Really pushing hard to try and get to this great conference.
True, but there are a number of other costs associated with being a lawyer. Various professional courses you're required to do in some jurisdictions and clothes that make you look like a lawyer instead of a programmer. Carrying costs of your $125k + living expenses education on top of undergrad @ $X...

I'm with you, but it is an expensive profession.
Is there a benefit to using the Friendster brand? Isn't it universally known as could-have-been social network? Why not just use whatever their resources are to start something fresh?
At dotCloud we use PostgreSQL, Riak and redis.

- PostgreSQL for the user database since it maps nicely to django and sqlalchemy models

- Redis for caches and non persistent data

- Riak for everything else

We love the fact that it is easy to scale, that bitcask is safe (it writes to disk:-p) and easy to backup (rsync or cp is enough).
I'm the author of the CoffeeScript book from PragProg, which includes a chapter on Node.js.

I've done a fair amount of server-side development in Java and Ruby. What I like most about Node.js is the feeling that you can be as close to the metal as you like. You don't have the endless boilerplate of every Java web framework, or the extensive "magic" of RoR. With Node and a framework like Express, you can understand things at the level of "let me look at this HTTP request and decide how to respond to it." This, to me, is beautiful:

app = require('express').createServer()

app.get '/', (req, res) ->
res.send 'hello world'

app.listen 3000

It's going to take more time to build a full-featured web app that way than with RoR or Django, but you'll understand it better and it'll scale well. For something that's only been around for two years, Node.js has a remarkable ecosystem—you can tell that a lot of very smart people are gravitating to it.

And yes, being able to use the same language for both your client-side and server-side code is pretty dang cool. It's also practical. Historically, development teams have tended to focus on the server-side and learn JS only well enough to hack together some jQuery into doing what they need on the front-end. The result has been a lot of buggy and lackluster front-end code. Node.js gives teams a compelling reason to master JavaScript, and to learn tools like CoffeeScript. And that's great news for the web as a whole.
Ah, when using a vpn, plus.google.com offers a "give us your email here" field... didn't on my cell a few hours ago
The original AT&T was made into a national monopoly by U.S. government regulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Telephone_%26_Telegrap...

Likewise, in many European countries, telecoms were originally national monopolies. Both in Europe and in the United States those national monopolies were either broken up or subjected to more competition.

VMG is quite correct to point out that telecoms gained monopoly status due to government action.
Heh, should have included that :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/hidden/
Joe Stump presentation: Starting your Startup
I'm not clear on the desired result of this project. Is it to make currently-unsafe Python code automatically correct? Or is it to keep the GIL semantics, but make it faster?

If it is the former, then I worry. Software transaction memory is hard to get right in languages without explicit and trustworthy annotations for side-effecting code (ie, types) [1].

1) http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetros... (currently down, but Google has a cached copy)
This is a good point. To date I have not had an anonymous survey in a small group that hasn't bitten me in the ass afterwards.

I also find some anonymous surveys interesting when they are placed in my mailbox and come with a unique identification number. When asking about this uid, I am always told it is for quality control purposes or such. Yeah right.

Anyway, the proposed idea is interesting. I could see it being abused though. Someone from management, A, who wants to know what you really think of them could set up a fake discussion using several other sign ins from coworkers B C and D (and of course management has their passwords, that's required per the corporate contract), puppets who then ask "What do you think of boss A?" followed by puppet accounts B-D saying A is a jerk and then listening to see your response. This is the sort of thing that happens with the sort of jock management that infects many workplaces.
Surprising Power Consumption Of Ubuntu 11.04 vs. Win 7
Don't know why that got downvoted, since it's a link to relevant prior discussion. But here's a more specific link (to the Riak thread in that discussion): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2685053
Yeah, my friend and I are pretty much unapologetic carnivores -- we half-kid sometimes about buying a 4H cow. But, I've noticed that ever since we started getting fresh veggies, I haven't minded eating the green stuff nearly as much.

I'm skeptical about these food practices being able to feed everyone though. While, personally, I'd like to see dairy farms in California with pasture-fed free-range etc. etc. cattle, that would probably make milk too expensive for poorer families to afford.
Here are some great rebuttals to "Just Food:"

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-08-mcwilliams-locavore-...

http://sharonastyk.com/2009/09/11/start-by-asking-the-right-...
The goal is to remove the GIL from PyPy. RPython (the language our VM is written in) has excellent annotations on things like side-effects.
I think it's a clever, ironic use of blaming the government- in the U.S., big government is always seen as an impediment and to be dreaded, but the problem is not for meddling bureaucrats, but hands-off ones who allow corporations free rein.