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I used to work for the gas company (ATCO) in Alberta. It was an informal rule, but they wouldn't shut you off during the winter for an unpaid bill. I don't believe there was any law to compel them, but it's bad PR to destroy homes and potentially kill people over a few hundred dollars. They know you're ultimately going to have to pay the bill come summertime.
> Thanks for jumping in to pointlessly defend some giant institution. ... your starry eyed tone is quite unearned.

First, up your civility a bit there. The snark is unnecessary and counterproductive to good discussion.

Second, my argument wasn't, "They did some good things too."

It was, "They were overwhelmingly the largest force for good in all of history."

Seriously, check out Heaven's Command. It's pretty balanced and covers every significant battle, controversy, and hypocrisy. And factoring all of that in, the Empire still comes out as the nation that's done more for humanity than anyone else.
1) At the top of the sidebar, there's an "Activity" label with a little cellphone-reception-style indicator icon. Clicking on it shows you a list of checkins, bug updates, and wiki modifications.

2) It's up to the project to show usage examples. Given that Google Code projects have a wiki page as the first thing you see, the examples can be in an even more prominent place than on GitHub.

3) Yeah, there's an extra click and some manual text selection here.

I don't know. I think it strikes a decent balance between letting developers get to the information they want and not scaring off non-technical users.
Well, somebody cares, if downvotes mean anything.
The 3DS has amazing potential, especially in the way of AR gaming. I think the system will, in time, start flying off the shelves, but the slow sales are curious. I don't think marketing is a problem. I have seen several adds on tv. I think they could be promoting the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake a bit stronger. The lackluster lineup is obviously one factor. The clunky design dosnt help either (very reminiscent of the original DS.) 3D is huge right now; it has shed its gimmicky stigma. And 3D without glasses is a big plus. But this feature dosnt seem to be stimulating the gaming industry as much as the TV industry. 3D is relatively new for gamers. But they will learn embrace it, intime.
The team has done some good work and have indeed been working hard. They do appreciate the recognition for sure.

We talked about how we should break the news that we supported git. Marking the bug fixed was a good approach to it as then we knew those that cared enough to click on the little star on the issue would know, and that would be a pretty good start.

A few people noticed in the 1/2 hour or so between the launch and the issue change, so that was funny to watch. We'll do a formal post later. Right now we're mostly watching and seeing what happens so we can make sure the site is in good shape.

So....try it out and let us know how you like it.
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Minor quibble, but I share your concern. It is more of a developer choice rather than a github limitation. github supports pod format, README, and I have no idea what else, displayed on the front page of a project. You can also supply a link to a project page. But what do I expect? Same as you -- main feature description, screenshots (please), and additional links to documentation and examples.
Read why it's vital to have a sandbox and production environment.
There's a lot of explaining on your site where you should be doing a LOT more showing. Use some awesome HTML5 tech to put a "live" demo of your app on the landing page. Load a largish file and offer the user to "zoom in" and "zoom out" on the play device to imitate what your device does for them. A "live" demo would eliminate the need for portrait/landscape examples under the first demo phone. Put links under your "live" demo which will load your example Displayables (the Great Wave, Railway maps, etc) inside the demo. In just the suggestion alone, I've shorted your page to less than two screens of scrolling (on my display). I personally hate the long-form sell and think it should be as obvious as possible as quickly as possible.

The layout could be much improved. I'm guessing you know this already since you primed me to think it was ugly in your request. I'm viewing on a 1280x800 display and can't see the full demo iPhone on my screen. The nav at the top could be a little sleeker. Your call to action to "Start creating Displayables now!" shouldn't be buried. You could get a lot of mileage out of buying a pre-made theme and implementing that if you don't want to spend a lot of time of creating something.

Lower the friction to get your users support. Google Groups and email are not scalable ways to support your users. I'm not saying this should go away, but consider at least putting a form that emails you so they don't have to open their mail client, think up a subject and free form some thoughts in your direction. Ideally, make feedback simple, easy and fun.
Being forever backward-compatible is a curse that prevents innovation and makes you end up with the mess of a language that PHP is.
That reminds me of this page in which the author created a large binary tree of pages and watched how various crawlers walked the tree.

http://www.drunkmenworkhere.org/219
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This is exactly what I've been fearing for a while. As soon as we go soft on the net neutrality issue, ISPs are going to take advantage. Favoring some traffic over others because they are part of an ISPs product line is ridiculous and anti-competitive.

With practices like these it will become increasingly rare for startups to be able to compete with large companies because customers won't want to spend extra money to use a startup's service.

There is a distinct difference between capping a customer's traffic after a certain point (which I don't agree with either) and favoring some traffic over another.

This is bad for everyone.
That was unfortunate. But another side of the issue in Chicago was that the city blew through the cash in record time. Even if the meters had been sold off at an above market price, the disfunction in the local government would have resulted in the squandering of the proceeds.

From your well made point I infer that we should make a dispassionate evaluation of the value of public assets during good times so that they won't be sold for a song during bad times.

Things usually go, "No we will not sell off pieces of our nation" (during good economic times) so nobody actually evaluates the options for doing so --> "We need cash now!" And we become subject to market forces when leveraging public assets.
"Also, on Reply, there's an alignment problem with the Share Rapportive link up top"

Can you please send me a screenshot of this? rahul@rapportive.com

"Though, can you use the emails to check via LinkedIn or something"

Yes, we can make very intelligent guesses on what your emails are, but we haven't yet got round to doing it :)

ps. if you haven't seen it already, do checkout http://rapportive.com/feedback — it's where a lot of brainstorming goes down
Getting a social security number and signing up for secret service recently I've been shocked at how far behind the government is on the internet.
nothing interesting here, everyone who writes web apps should know that testing for all browsers is very hard. it is esentially like writing 5 different apps. and probably costs like 5 apps. it is better to state that browser is not supported than something like "You need modern browser to run my site." and by modern means firefox.
Report: Verizon iPhone, iPad 2 luring developers away from Android
"This stomach flu sure sucks, you guys [shared with #work]"

"Awesome kegger last night, breauxs! Can't believe I did twenty shots! [shared with #alphabetagamma]"
Matt, hated to downvote you but your comment didn't add much here. Simply saying that something was addressed and dismissed doesn't tell the reader why it was dismissed so that they could judge for themselves. Your premise seemed to be that if Google says something it must be true, which isn't necessarily the case. (And I'm definitely not implying any evil or bad reason, sometimes people are just mistaken)
this reply isn't meant to be a flame, but-

Do you not understand why you can't compare Rails (framework) to PHP (language)?

PHP has frameworks with ORM, too.
Argh, this is at least the second XSS vulnerability that’s been found in Skype in the last few months.

> skype.com has to validate the input characters and sanitize the output

I don’t like this solution. It mostly works for the phone number field, but not for other fields. (I want my status to be “<script>alert('XSS!')</script>”, damnit!)

The right solution is to make sure that when data gets inserted into code, it’s encoded. If you’re inserting text into an HTML document, run it through an HTML encoder. If you’re inserting text into an SQL statement, run it through an SQL encoder.

Or, use something that distinguishes between code and data, like an HTML templating system or parametrized queries.
The OP asks reasonable technical questions about medical nanorobots. I'm not going to defend Kurzweil, but some less-sloppy thinkers have written about this kind of stuff, like Merkle, Freitas, and Drexler. E.g. http://www.merkle.com/cryo/techFeas.html
http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMIIA/15.3.6.5.htm
They do tackle questions like how do you power these things; I wish he'd read and criticize them instead.

A 7-micron-long medical nanorobot sounds pretty damned big to me, btw -- in _Nanosystems_ Drexler fits a 32-bit CPU in a 400nm cube, less than 1/300 of the volume if we're talking about a 1-micron-radius cylinder.
To be fair to Facebook, this is how vulnerable any one's content is if they host it at a hosting provider that is outside the jurisdiction of their nation and subject to third party pressures. Very few large and profitable hosting providers will give you the benefit of doubt and risk costly litigation.
But some traffic is favored over others, by sheer network topology. Internet traffic costs money or peering agreements (which is ultimately just money that happens to cancel out). Traffic from the network you are currently connected to is much, much cheaper for the ISP.

I offer the opposite argument, which is that charging you for data sourced within the same network the same as external traffic is what would be the bizarre, anti-consumer behavior. If you want force anything on the ISPs, force them to allow others to home their services directly on their network for some reasonable fee, and then treat it also as uncharged traffic.

(I'm not sure it carries the day, so debate away. It should be put out there, though.)
People don't need to be rational for game theory to accurately describe our behavior. We may not be rational, but in aggregate, the results are.

That is, our behaviors may be influenced more by our instinct than our reasoning. Our instincts are the result of a random exploration process where only certain strategies could win. Rational reasoning is not required.
It didn't do it for me that time
One thing I've noticed is that paid apps are ranking higher than free apps in searches. That's all great, but sometimes the paid apps are really the crappiest. They really need to find a balance between paid apps, quality and the free apps. It looks bad on the Android Market when someone searches for something and what they get are crappy/ugly apps (which there's quite a lot of on the Android Market).
Perhaps you should have read the article. (The second paragraph of page 1 was entirely about Reed's Law.)
This isn't node.js and it certainly isn't "node.js on steroids". It is some half-baked JAVA application.

Don't advertise something as something it is not just to steal the positive press and image of other people's hard work.
Wow! I think I just came.

Seriously, unit testing in iOS is not great, and this kind of simulation is exactly what we need. Regular unit tests are great for model-layer stuff and data-processing code, but they will not help with most real-world problems that occur.

"Does my login flow still work?" and "Can I still use every feature of my app successfully?" is the kind of thing you need to know after committing code.
We say an algorithm is in P if the running time grows as a polynomial function (e.g., n^2, but not 2^n) of the input size (n, in my example; the number of variables in the polynomial in this paper).

We say that an algorithm is in NP if checking a given solution can be done in polynomial time. For example, if the problem is to find a path that visits all the nodes of a graph (or cities on a salesman's route, or whatever) exactly once that's less than some distance k, you might have to try every possible route to find a solution, but given an answer, you can check it's distance and compare it to k very quickly.

NP-hard means (even more informally than the above) that the problem is "at least as hard as the hardest problem in NP". (Some problems in NP are easy; e.g., if you have an algorithm in P to find a solution to a problem, then you can obviously also check a given answer in polynomial time.)

It is not known whether or not all problems for which answers can be checked in polynomial time (NP) can also be solved in polynomial time (P).

They're saying that if P=NP, there does exist an algorithm in P that can decide the convexity of a degree 4 polynomial (even though they don't know what that algorithm is right now), and if P!=NP, then there doesn't.

(*Edit: The last paragraph is wrong:

I can't find that they've proven that the determining convexity is in NP, just that it's NP-hard and they didn't rule out it being in NP. (Recall that some NP-hard problems are not in NP; halting problem is one.)

So it's possible that that both P=NP and there's still no algorithm in P that can check convexity. But if P!=NP, that algorithm definitely doesn't exist.

Also, on closer reading, the relevant "size" of a problem that this paper is talking about (n) is the number of bits needed to represent the coefficients of the polynomial.)
To be fair, even a lot of experienced programmers are tripped up by these issues.
In a movie about Robert Scoble, who would play Robert Scoble?
On their site, they write
"TenFourFox is not an official Mozilla product and is not a Mozilla-maintained build of Firefox."
So any plans to work on it :D
I have certainly noticed that when I am thinking constantly, I am hungrier and eat about 15% more without gaining weight. This is not a physical matter, because when I'm thinking about hard problems I don't change my physical routine-I just think while taking a shower, driving, etc. It's not particularly extreme to say that thinking hard can help you lose weight.

I know that the brain consumes glucose when thinking hard-this is related to all those studies on willpower being a physical process-but I would love to see a formal measurement of calories.
Quote: "Researchers collected fecal samples to measure levels of stress hormones called glucocorticoids".

So you can tell who the boss is by their shit !

Metaphorically speaking we've been doing this for years :-)
Court OKs Airport Body Scanners, Rejects Constitutional Challenge
Agreed on #4.

On #2 I've always found it crazy that Android market is an also ran in app search and discoverability -- Apple has not set the bar very high and that's supposed to be Google's forte anyway.
I'm not sure that I buy his evolutionary biology argument, but he's right that it's more difficult to get to grips with long-term abstract tasks than it is with immediate needs, whether those originate internally or externally. This is particularly challenging for self-study and other non-conventional forms of education; the face-to-face interactions with instructors and other students, the framework of a rigid class schedule, and the learning-specific setting of a classroom all contribute to the learning process by providing tangible environmental cues for the brain which are associated with the subject(s) of study. This might also explain why some recent graduates struggle to adjust to the new and different demands of the workplace :-)

One method I've found helpful for overcoming my own tendency to procrastinate is to create my own environmental cues instead of wishing I had an academic institution to provide them. Having specific clothes, music and similar things that you associate with your study or project can be very effective. If you had a long-term goal of being a doctor, for example, it might be helpful to put on a lab coat even if you are currently studying something you don't like in order to get into medical school later. If you're doing a lot of work or study on the computer, create a new user with a different wallpaper, color scheme, and desktop for work on the long term project. Keep your leisure browsing/gaming/whatever in a different environment from your task-oriented one. If you're an entrepeneur, photoshop yourself onto the cover of Fortune as a joke and hang it on your wall. The sub-headings can be little reminders about staying ahead of the competition, or keeping your edge, or whatever cues you effectively. Go to professional conferences and chat to the sort of people that you wish to have in your peer group. Sign up for magazines or other marketing materials so that you get random reminders of your future falling into your mailbox (most of which will be junk mail, but it will be a better class of junk mail than you had been getting).

In short, surround yourself with things that help you stay emotionally connected to your goal. 'Fake it till you make it,' not to deceive others about the progress or success you have achieved so far, but to bypass the analytical part of your brain and give the more instinctual/emotional part the feeling of what achieving your goal will be like.
The sub-point he was making that aptitude or talent does not imply creative output. So he gave an example of a group that had extremely high ability in an area but did not produce in that area. With the bigger point being that differences in achievement in certain areas between women and men may come down to interest more than ability.

The logical counter-response to this would be "well there were so many social barriers (de-facto and de-jure) preventing women from producing creative output"

He then gives an example of a similarly or more repressed group with extreme ability in an area (Black jazz musicians) that managed to be extremely prolific in that area.

It is actually pretty convincing. Or at least thought-provoking.

That is, if you do in fact think.
There is a lot more complication and loophole-ability in forcing ISPs to allow others to home their services than there is in forcing net neutrality in its traditional definition.
Relax, God is just. He'll make it up to you or you deserved it.

God says...
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unaided inspire comforts omnium greedily unholy gall reverently
editing greedily imagination dear enact issued almsdeeds
wearing viper beauties the repay machine Eagerly disentangled
admonition Lord blunted Way fables intended folded resistance

Read the sermon on the mount. It's all about God making it up to people who suffer.
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Again, so if women lack those motivations, where did feminism come from?
Show HN: EmailAmbush - Know when your inbox is under attack (MVP stage)
I'm sorry, but I don't care what school you go to, a Marketing MBA isn't going to be an expert in online advertising until they spend significant time and money doing it. I have friends who have been managing very significant marketing budgets for years. They take 6 months off and they have to re-educate themselves. Nobody walking out of the halls of Harvard jumps on Google Adwords or starts calling in PO's from major online portals and gets good results. Nobody walking out of Techstars does either. Neither of these experiences makes you an expert in managing a business, or any department thereof.
A while ago, I saw this link on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2636685 and realized that I had had the same idea, but had done nothing about it beyond setting it up for personal use. Emboldened by the popularity of the idea, I decided to flesh out the service and turn it from a project to a product.

I'm at the MVP stage now, and I'd love for you all to take a look at it and tell me what you think and how I can improve. My very next steps are adding an IP filter so that I don't have to worry about triggering my own ambushes, and then working on marketing, which always seems like more of a challenge the building the original product.
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I won't pretend to have any answers but if you want someone to discuss ideas/share experiences with, drop me an email. (contact email in profile)
The originally released logs already contained personal information of the sorts you are most likely refering to (i.e. they already outed manning a being gay and conflicted with DADT). The rest of what the logs tell, for example about the issues with his family and boyfriend, has already been researched by other media outlets and published.

I agree that reading Manning's actual narrative about this this is more shocking that reading a journalist telling you about it, but I don't find the fact that they released the logs disturbing.
Everything you've pointed out are sort of known issues with the google market. Instead of complaining switch to Apple store and see if you do any better. To me this is almost a trolling rant, to ignite the Apple vs Android debate and possibly a marketing ploy. Theres been plenty of posts about successes in the Android market. I actually think you've done quite well on the Android Market.

Release your game on the Apple market and let us know how well you do trying to get traction or downloads there.

>We looked at the apps currently available on Google's Market and realized that there is a lack of quality applications with dedicated developers.

This is completely untrue, and stop spreading this FUD. Most developers support both platforms and there are plenty of high quality applications.

*edited to address rant of high quality apps.
This is what net neutrality was all about. They said it would never happen...
This kind of reframing is a technique to align your subconscious motivations with conscious ones. In contrast, there's very little evidence that discovering the "cause" of a motivation really helps.

There's a significant amount of evidence that actively building positive emotional connections to the activities you want to do is useful-see Switch, or The Talent Code for examples.
The thing I don't quite understand about all these stories 37 signals loves to blag about. What's in it for them? It doesn't seem like a revenue generator for them. Is it just ego? Are they setting up to enter a different market? Sales tactics for rails?

The production quality is excellent however.