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TIL about STS-400. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-400

Seeing the Shuttles next to one another is pretty awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space_shuttles_Atlantis_%2...
Yeah, we had been working on this for a couple months when they launched last week. I wasn't surprised that someone else had executed on the same idea, but couldn't believe the timing was so close to the weekend we had set to launch. :) That being said, to us it was a great validation of the idea.
Why is it fun at that point?

(Honest question. Please don't take it any other way.)
>Once upon a time Java was one of the preferred methods for writing Mac OS apps: Apple clearly doesn't want that anymore.

Apple just doesn't see enough benefit in continuing their own JVM development. The primary reason that Java was the preferred method was purely because of the portable nature of Java code, and the fact that Mac OS9 and OSX didn't really have enough marketshare to make full ports feasible. Since OSX has a fairly decent marketshare at this point, it's an easier argument to make a native port over multiplatform, portable code like Java.

One of the issues with Java on OSX was that, most of the time, you couldn't actually code to the latest version of Java, because Apple was months(or even years) behind on implementing new JVM and Java language specs.

It took Apple about a year and a half to update their JVM to 1.6 after that was released. Here's a timeline for Apple's historical Java releases:

http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/10/28/os-x-java-defini...

Java 6 support was released in May, 2008: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1856

Given that history, and the fact that iOS is primarily objective C, it's really no surprise that Apple decided to depreciate the JVM from their OS.
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It made me notice that when McDonalds started playing music, they played exclusively classical music, which I thought to be out of place. Now I wonder if they're using public domain works, or perhaps arrangements thereof which they have copyrights on.

I'm starting to think that we need a free music movement, where people start creating music that can be used freely in personal videos, school plays and whatnot without all these copyright shenanigans. A good place to start would be the public domain classical music. There's a lot of good stuff there.
It's easy to call it amazing now... I'll be amazed when I see a proof that the auther of this traveled through time or something.
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It's always best to qualify your statements with "... that I'm aware of." ;)

Straight from the horse's mouth:

As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the Java runtime ported by Apple and that ships with Mac OS X is deprecated. Developers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in future versions of Mac OS X.

The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/Ja...
Ask HN: Why do websites seem to get more responsive when you ping them?
I've often observed that when a website is responding slowly and I start pinging it, it becomes responsive again.

Does the pinging somehow cause the increase in responsiveness? Or is the subsequent increase in responsiveness just a coincidence?
The kid's in high school; cut him a break. He'll never be smarter than he thinks he is right now.
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> That's just how Google operates. If they can make a cron job that eliminates the need to supply support for most customers, that's what they do.

You begin with what seems like disagreement, then prove my point.

A $600 device to be exposed to Google's mobile ads? Here's an email.

A few million dollars a year in ad spend? Here's a whole department of new friends.

Solving problems with AdWords can be done algorithmically. And is – there are lots of little automated touches there, from ad approval to keyword suggestion. But smart humans can give more – resulting in better financial performance for Google.

Code can rarely resolve support issues. But that's all they bothered to do because end users are not a priority. For all the reasons I mentioned.

When it benefits them financially, Google offers support. Otherwise, they don't. You can chalk this up to whatever cultural or business case you'd like.

But the end result is that unless you're pouring money into their pockets, you, as an individual, don't matter to Google. That's not sophistry – that's established fact.
Arxiv acts as a supplement to journals, providing a place to host preprints. It does not compete with those journals.
I've done it. Lived on just savings for 9 months before getting some seed funding, which lasted 4 months. Then, we made a pivot so that was another 6 months of savings and counting, but we are close to closing an angel round. My cofounder did the same.

I prepared enough savings to last about 2 years (living very frugally) before I took the leap. I'm single.

Do I regret it? Not really. Not even if this startup fails and I deplete most of my savings.

However, two things I would maybe do differently:

1) I would have kept a job while I networked and learned more about the startup world. Seeing how you are on HN and read a lot about other startups, your case is probably different.

2) I may also have started with less savings. I think I worked at a slower pace in the first 9 months than I am working now, because 1) I was burned out from corporate and 2) I knew how long my savings could last me for.
Click through to the explanation. The amazing part is that the crossword worked no matter who won.
I sympathize with your idealistic sort of thinking but it is unreasonable. Corporations (which is what Google is) are responsible to shareholders. The purpose of a corporation by definition is to maximize the bottom line for the shareholder. It has nothing to do with being good to people. The only way that this guy's problem will get solved is if enough people catch wind of his situation that it affects the fairly popular status of the Google brand. I use a lot of their services myself and would be just as infuriated if this happened to me, but you have to keep in mind what the purpose of Google is essentially. Now, if you want to talk about the down/upside of our capitalistic society and corporate greed that is another conversation to be had.
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Why doesn't Google just give people a way to download their email & contacts after they've been locked out? I assume it's already bouncing any new email.

At least then, the guy wouldn't be completely screwed, and it's the sort of solution that scales, given that they're not interested in creating expensive support infrastructure for free products.
I fail to see how you are addressing the argument made in the previous post.

Google is giving you a service for free because they are selling data about you for money.

In other words if you aren't paying for the product you are the product.

How does that have anything to do with sophistry?
That used to be an issue with phones 5 years ago (like the M600i, which I bought purely because it looked cool), but these days with most phones being Quad-band 2G / Tri-band 3G (or better) it's pretty easy to get a phone that will work on most freq. here in the US. Howardforums is full of people that do this all the time.

Obviously you're stuck if Verizon is your choice of network... I mostly just hop around on T-Mobile / AT&T depending on who has the towers that support the phone I want. I think the Galaxy S2 may be the last phone I import early though, like I said the only real disadvantage to the US markets these days is launch lag time... We're getting all the best hardware now. Sometimes it's even good to wait, because there's always bugs that are worked out with any first release.
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The cornea, not the lens, supplies the majority of the eye's refraction, so I would be surprised if this worked for people with any substantial amount of refractive error.
Anyone working in Google with an answer to this question?
Newspapers have been subsidized by advertising for over 100 years, why are we trying to make money from subscriptions now?
That might be true for a basic/early Rails app where it's ok to have script kiddie relationship with Ruby, but if you have a more complex app, I don't think the learning curve is quite as easy as you're making it sound.

My own experience with Rail is that I quickly wanted to see inside and control all of the implicit stuff that was going on, and I needed to invest a lot more time to learn Ruby to have the knowledge that would give the amount of control I wanted.
You need to click on the "Click through to see how they did it link" to see why this is cool.

They used ten ambiguous clues so "CLINTON ELECTED" and "BOBDOLE ELECTED" were both valid solutions to the puzzle. For instance, the down word intersecting the intial C/B is CAT/BAT with the clue "Black Halloween animal".

Since they publish the solution the next day, they can publish the right solution no matter which way the election goes.

[edit: I didn't downvote you, btw]
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It's a little old now, but I followed this and created a "backup" Google account a while ago, just in case.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/12/creating-backup-for...
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"The world would be a better place if if companies focused on "people", and not on "money""

Nah, people are too busy worshiping things like Google+ and the next social network, things which really solve nothing at all.
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I have learned the keystrokes, and have spent countless hours playing it. The interface is still absolutely awful. It's so inconsistent and needlessly convoluted.

Just to be clear, I'm not wishing that DF had a point-and-click interface. I'm happy that DF is keyboard-controlled. It's just that this keyboard control could have been made a lot less painful with a tiny bit of consideration for consistency and efficiency.

As far as roguelikes go, nethack has a pretty nice interface (except for the stupid # commands), though even there there's some room for improvement. DF should have been modeled on that, or at least with some input from players on how the interface could have been improved.

At the absolute least, the author could have let the same actions on different screens of the game be activated with the same keystrokes, rather than requiring completely different keystrokes for some perverse and unfathomable reason.

Another quite workable solution would be to let the keystrokes be user-configurable. That would go a long way towards lessening the pain.
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That's cool, but when I'm hiring a team and paying their salaries with my own money, I'm just not going to bank on transitioning anyone from X to Y. No time for it, no appetite for the risk. But if you raise VC, more power to you.
I believe the idea of "publicly-held companies" is a net negative for humanity. It encourages immoral behavior.

Obviously my thoughts are unreasonable. I wish the world were unreasonable. Because then people might empathize with each other to an unreasonable degree, resulting in far less grief and hate within our microscopic timeline of our universe.
>shape of the lens of the eye is a function of three sets of muscles that can be trained/relaxed to help vision come back to 'normal'.

Didn't read your link but could this explain why programmers get poor eyesite as they frequently focus on close objects (monitors) and thus the three sets of muscles become accustom to focusing on close objects?
Do you or have you worked there? Neither have I, but friends attest that 9-to-5 is possible there. All depends on the person, their focus and the project they are working on.
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You are a perl guy, what are you doing reading articles about Java anyway? ;-)

Linkbait :)
Yeah this would have definitely been the least popular vehicle in Carmageddon.
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I find it rather strange that they count Android as one category but break iOS into iPhone, iPad, and ObjectiveC. It'd be nice to know what the platform numbers are.

They're also trying to extrapolate to the end of 2012 (17 months away!), and they're only counting freelancing jobs (which needs to be reflected in the title, OP).

So, in summary: You can derive pretty much nothing of value from these numbers.
In Minecraft, cobblestone generators are highly viable and much better than mining, in fact. High-density tree farms are a lot more sustainable, too. Examples of both are on the wiki.

If you really need to speed up the tree farms, even though they're a lot better than harvesting wild trees, get bonemeal by creating a trap around an enemy spawner. Or just create a giant dark pit where water feeds the monsters into a trap in the center (either a pitfall or a lava blade). Again, it's all on the wiki. Infinitely sustainable. I've made all of these, except for the enemy trap, which I'm still working on... by using the cobblestone generator.
"He said the problem is limited to Mac users, and that permanency of the change was unintentional."

But making the change itself, permanent or not, is OK?
Just forward everything to a comcast or ISP email address and make that forward to a yahoo address so you have multiple backups.
Getting into to either isn't based on ratios and stats. Excellent, top-notch engineers that can get jobs at Google might find it harder to get into TechStars if they lack a viable team + idea. There are a LOT of positions open at Google right now. Not many spots at TechStars. Orders of magnitude difference.
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I find your attitude very inspiring.
This is getting mildly irritating, e.g. my G+ django spark has a bunch of stuff about movies that I don't care about.
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"The vast majority of companies don't take VC money. Many great companies had ideas that were quickly dismissed by these "VERY smart VCs and entrepreneurs"."

It's not for the money. It's for the experience that you get, the day to day conversation with all the teams, the contacts that you can get, the incredible feedback and criticism from highly experienced mentor AND the money (Which is really not that much, but just enough to get started and focus without stressing about how you will eat). And note here, I'm talking about first time entrepreneurs; Not someone who's got 5 startups already sold or a google/facebook/whatever CTO.

And yeah, you can argue that you don't need it and sometime startups were wrongly dismissed by good VCs; but it's rare. It's their job to spot great startups/revolutionary ideas/extraordinary teams.

The fact that you are not chosen means something. You can't only dismiss it.. It's important to know why you weren't chosen. And "The teams were awesome this year" is not a reason. I mean, if your idea is awesome and you are great but they didn't accept you, there must be a reason. Is it because they didn't "get" it? Or felt that the market wasn't ready for it? Or that even though you think you're awesome, you're not?

"Of course, there's also the argument that the 4-5 YC partners just can't take on every potentially successful startup. Harvard can't accept every qualified candidate; there's not enough seats. But to then tell one of those rejected (or in this case, waitlisted!) to simply forget continuing on with their education elsewhere is just preposterous."

Again, the problem is not to be refused, but to know why you are. If you were refused because of your grades, it's perfectly understandable. If it's because you can't speak the language of the university, it's understandable. But if you're among the best with a great personality and awesome grades, why would they refuse you?

And then, school is really different in the way they accept you. It's more about your dossier and your grade.. not about your potential. Whereas, with an incubator, they don't care about your past, they look at you. Your idea. Your personality. Your enthusiast. The fact that they refuse you means a lot more; PG really looked at you, talked with you and thought: "No. You're not in."
I went once; my grandfather had gotten VIP passes. It was January 1986.
If you do anything remotely important via email, you should own you own domain name, and pay for a hosted email solution. I can suggest tuffmail. They are awesome and affordable.
Consult a lawyer. State laws vary. Generally, the USA is a very worker-friendly place. Employers can't own what you do on your own time, and provided it is not competitive, you are likely okay. Granted with a company of Google's scope that may be hard.
Hi there, that's actually something I like about Agility, but I will soon add support for HTML templates outside of JS objects.

PS: You can already skip in-object CSS.
I would also add a fuzzy matching. I.e. "unitd sta" should match "United States" even with the missing "e". Or "East coast" should match "The East Coast".
There's less conflict between people and profits than you might think.

First, I share your idealism. Being good to people, and humanity as a whole, is the most important thing we can do in our brief existence.

What's happened, though, is that perverse incentives that reward short-term thinking at the expense of long-term results have become the norm in large businesses.

Ship product X before it's ready because the Street wants to see some action before the end of the quarter – even though in an unfinished state, you'll destroy the product's reputation. (most people in Tablet land)

Fire an experienced sales force because they are expensive. The money saved will look great in our financial reporting – even though the resulting drop in customer service will gut our profitability for years to come. (Home Depot, Circuit City)

Adopt rigid policies around customer service. Don't empower front-line people to make things right. That might cost money – even though the lost goodwill will mean that customers will abandon the business and flock to better alternatives. (most retail chains, airlines)

But the good news is that there are companies who make a lot of money just by kind of being nice to people, creating a fair balance of profit for the company and value for the customer.

Zappos spends a shitload of money on phone support. It's a marketing expense. So everyone loves shopping at Zappos after awhile.

Amazon will disable their Prime $3.99 one-click shipping button if they've noticed that the free option has the same delivery estimate. So you can always feel safe shopping there.

Apple Stores are pretty flexible with return/exchange/warranty rules. Be polite, explain what you need, they'll often bend policy or waive repair fees. From a product perspective, Apple sits on products for years and kills them if they can't deliver a minimum level of user experience quality. So when they launch something new, they have lines out the door with people desperate to buy.

Whole Foods empowers their store managers to do the right thing – whatever that looks like for a given situation or market. So if the power goes out in the middle of a busy day, everyone goes home with free food so they can get on with life.

So as long as you're capable of seeing past the next three weeks, you can make money and be good to people. Which is what you need if you want to pay your employees' rent. Corporations are capable of doing a lot of good. But they've been hijacked by unimaginative, unproductive Wall Street morons who would kill a school bus full of children if it meant a higher return on the next five minutes of trading.
I like how the "e" is taken out of some words but included in nonsense like "Aeiour." What's that even supposed to mean?
Even if the hardware isn't compromised, the OS running in RAM can be taken over as easily as a disk-based system can. It's just that the OS will be reset and 'cleaned' when the machine is rebooted.
One thing I've learned is that your language/framework is an HR decision.

The jobs metric tells me that if you hope to hire >>experienced<< Ruby programmers, you can probably expect to have fewer to choose from, possibly wait longer, fight harder, and pay more to get them.

I'm not saying you can't hire good programmers and give them a few months to transition, but that wouldn't work for my bootstrapped startup that's planning to ship product in 90 days.

You might say, yeah, but with 2k Java jobs, you have to compete against a lot of employers. Personally, I'd rather take my chances with a deeper pool of Java talent that I can out recruit the competition.
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Sophistry : "a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning."

Google makes money because they have users, in the same way that a television network makes money because they have viewers. Both are entirely reliant upon their user base, and will desperately trying to optimize and maximize that user base.

If the GP's point was "there is a very low profit / user, and a limited impact by irate customers (at least those who don't shout from the rooftops)" then they are making an accurate statement, and it's actually what I supported -- Google doesn't care whether you're on a "free" or pay program, they'll still try to avoid talking to you.

The bit about products and customers is just completely unnecessary, again, sophistry. Google's product is a mail system and a search engine and a social product, and sometimes users pay for it (I use Apps for Domains), and sometimes advertisers pay for it. Cutifying that into comforting slogans isn't helpful.
The bright reflection is the reflection off the silver backing of the glass in the mirror (i.e. the normal mirror reflection). The dim reflection is the reflection off the surface of the glass (the same as the reflection you see of yourself when you look at a window when it is dark outside and bright inside).

Flipping the "switch" on the mirror simple changes the angle of the mirror by the exact amount needed to reflect the light from your rear window into your eye off either the silver surface or the glass surface.
I think of Minecraft (SMP) as having three distinct aspects (or phases):

1) Surviving the zombie hordes long enough to set up an initial base of operations

2) Beginning to explore and build out infrastructure

3) Building cool, large-scale stuff

I personally find all three of these aspects of the game fun. Even after you've gotten to phase 3, you can still go back and do the same things you did earlier; exploring caves or the nether is still dangerous even after you're fully equipped, and you can always explore farther away and build new infrastructure. So even if you're not particularly interested in large-scale construction projects, you can still have fun exploring or going off on your own and fighting zombies.
SF police at its worst. Thanks god for camera phones.
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