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For more info about the Firefox logo/icon you can read this interview I did with Jon Hicks: http://www.iconfinder.com/blog/15/
The British "queue up" when joining a line in wait for something. As do my print jobs. The comment is submitting a topic for next consideration, so what's wrong the usage here?
Yes, this is probably the correct thing to do. Unfortunately, most universities are too cash-strapped for such a thing.
re: call to action: you should a/b eventually, but start with best practices. buttons > links, use colors that draw attention, don't let it blend with other page elements. (for instance, the left-alignment makes it blend with the text above it.)
I sincerely wish you luck. I have a 2 month old daughter who wears clothes sized for a 6 month old. It pains me to think about what we spent on clothes she only wore once or twice. I'll send the link to my wife since I have just about zero say (I'm not complaining) about the clothes my daughter wears.
Every person that I know that has considered starting their own business has decided against it for one reason only, health insurance. They have always been the obtainer in chief of health insurance for the family and it is too risky to go without.
I strongly suspect that a public health option would blow the job market wide open between folks who want to retire but can't because health insurance is idiotically expensive and those of us who would love to start a business but cannot put a whole family at physical risk for a potential monetary reward.

I start a business means my present job opens up, as well as any additional hires my business would need. Jobs problem gone.
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Show HN: BitHaven - a handy encryption web app
I'd appreciate any feedback on my project:

http://bithaven.com

BitHaven lets you easily do symmetric encryption/decryption of text. It's a intended as a convenient way to encrypt text you want to store on your computer, save in the cloud or send to someone else.
This is the wrong solution to the problem, and it's implemented poorly.

Use a proper control-flow ( not "flow-control" ) library like https://github.com/caolan/async.

Furthermore, why would you write an entire custom js parser for this? Why not use some of the many many pre-existing ones that are much more stable, more developed, and well supported.
Apple is actually taking this up with HTC and Motorola. They're not suing Samsung, possibly because they do a lot of business with them, and possibly because Samsung has a much larger patent portfolio with which they can defend themselves. Initiating patent infringement is not without risks when you go up against someone with a large arsenal that they can fight back with.
So many of these silly articles would be unnecessary if people just used their brains and their empathy.

People with two X chromosomes are not some sort of bizarre alien for you to "figure out how they work". They're people, like you. They have desires -- probably pretty similar to yours in most respects. Use your empathy, and think from their perspective... just like you would for anyone else in the world.

Yet people constantly go into relationships thinking only of themselves. Rants are everywhere about what a person "wants in a woman/man" or "wants in a relationship" where the entire concept that the other side of the relationship has "desires" or "wants" is ignored. Relationships fail largely because people think only about themselves, not others.

A lot of "geeks" seem to want to generalize everything about women and make up "rules" for dealing with them, as if somehow all people are all the same. They constantly come up with "scientific" explanations for "why women are different", ignoring the fact that the variation among people of a single gender is vastly larger than the variation between genders. Saying "all women want X" is much akin to saying "all black people want fried chicken", except a whole lot more politically correct (somehow).

... have you ever tried thinking about them and treating them as people with brains? It works pretty well, you know.
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Well, there are lots of ways that an invention could be unworthy of a patent. Being one of many equally good solutions to a problem might be one, depending on your beliefs, and that seems to be the one you have in mind. But it could also, for example, be an obvious combination of existing inventions (say, combining a payment-processing system with a 3-D printer) or indeed something already known in the prior art.
Interview with Firefox logo designer Jon Hicks
Jon Hicks is one half of Hicksdesign and has been working as a lead designer with Opera software. He is known as the logo designer of Firefox, Thunderbird, Silverback and Mailchimp. Needless to say, he is one of the most talented and hardworking designers focusing on both icons and logos.
I'm not sure this debate is likely to go anywhere, but what exactly is wrong with people thinking they are better off than they are, or aspiring to be?

If people don't want help, why force it upon them?

Disclaimer: I love Android and 100% of my slates are running it. I love that it's free. Check my profile, it's all I do all day.

I'm just calling out your "Joe the Plumber" reference.
I think 'machine learning' is so complex that people just don't feel like trying to explain it.

I think it is very simple(outside of the secret sauce part) to people who know it, so they don't feel the need to explain it. People who haven't sat down and thought about it see it as magical.

As an example(lifted from Programming Collaborative Intelligence by Segaran ) say you want to recommend movies to people. You have them rate movies. Then you take people in pairs and compare movies they have both rated to produce a distance between those two people. When you want to recommend a movie to Joe, you take the people who are closest to Joe and then find a movie that they rate highly that Joe has not rated, and suggest that to Joe. The secret sauce is in coming up with the distance function.
It can also use monetary and fiscal policy to stimulate demand, increasing the amount of work that needs to be done and resulting in more hiring.

A government can certainly use monetary and fiscal policies to stimulate demand and create more work, but that does not necessarily result in more hiring.

For one thing, when there is a surplus of goods (and there frequently is late in a recession and shortly thereafter) the initial demand will be met by that surplus rather than any additional production. Even when that surplus is exhausted, additional demand may be met through through automation. Also, if an industry as a whole thinks that this demand will be short lived, it may choose to either raise prices or simply permit some of that demand to go unmet rather than make large capital expenditures to increase production.

Also, normally when a country is trying to "create jobs", its goal is to create jobs for its own citizens. In an increasingly global economy, stimulating demand may increase imports without increasing jobs in the target economy.

So, while increasing demand may help create jobs, it also may have limited impact and that impact may take a substantial amount of time to be felt.
Ask HN: Where to get (deeper) advice, feedback on my startup?
I posted a "Review my startup" post a few days back and got some good but limited feedback (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2763833).

I really want to improve my service offering and truly feel I'm on to something in the space of gift registries, wish lists, etc.

Besides HN, what community or service is out there that provides feedback on startups (idea, design, execution, pricing, etc.)? Any paid feedback?

Thanks,
bakhlawa

p.s. I've been promoting the service and beta user feedback is welcome, but limited.
May be one small business doesn't need a PhD. But the PhD can solve problems that many small businesses have.
Update on this story: Google has said they will start indexing the pages for the regular search results again asap.
Two of the 30 sites that launched today: http://oaktownbaseball.com/ and http://friscofan.com/
I've noticed Twitter spam bots have started to pull random quotes/text off the internet. Funny to see a tweet of a Machiavelli quote followed by a cheap viagra tweet.
I have a 2 month old daughter and it pains me how inconsistent sizing is for infants. We got a tremendous amount of clothing from friends and families. Within the 0-3 month range, we have clothes whose snaps literally won't close on my daughter (who is only 3rd percentile size for her age), and we also have clothes that are double her size. If I had paid for these, I'd be pissed as hell.
So this is how straight people date? Sounds like hell. I try to avoid relationships expectations of emotional support are based on how well I can follow unspoken rules and keep my feelings under wraps. For many gay men this means being a lot more brash and rude with our partners, and relaxing the rules of monogamy. I'm not saying that it will work for everyone, but I've seen similar kind of relationships work with my straight friends.

> Guys often love to look at the other ladies and check out their curves, maybe fantasize a little. It's the nature, sort of. I mean, single guys do it, married guys do, even gay guys do it.

Ha, no we don't. I mean, I do with guys and all but still.
One problem with so many emails is that they're much faster and easier to write than to thoughtfully respond to.

Something like "how much would a clone of ebay.com cost?" takes 5 seconds to write by an eternity to answer in any thoughtful way (excluding true but glib responses like "more than you can afford").

For message-delivery emails, a "Please let me know if you've received this" goes a long way, as does following up with another medium.

For "quick question" emails, make sure they're as quick to answer as they are to ask. You don't have to go all the way to a multiple-choice form, but aim for mostly yes-or-no or which-of-the-above questions.
How complex would it be to execute a javascript function callback against each published document on the hub instead of a query and return the document to the subscriber if the function returns true?
The "blame tech" theme is what struck me - in all its appalling wrongness (see my sharply critical comments on some vapid assumptions made in a like piece that ran on HN yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2770994).
There is theory and there is practice. Before suggesting any additional funds for SBA loans, I would suggest you read David Einhorn's book "Fooling Some Of The People All of the Time". In short, when the govt. guarantees loans, loan standards go down and fraud goes up. Yes, there are checks and balances in place but motivated parties find ways to scam the system. It is a travesty how much wastage there is in the process.
It's the use of the word "real". You got to come out of the other side of whatever theoretical or practical education you choose with something that makes you an asset. Education is supposed to transform you from a consumer into a producer. That's what "real" is. Tangible.

I've never been to Canada but I love Eastern Europe, there's a buzz there, an energy that drove these kids to learn English and travel to where the work is. To be a young Eastern European today is a glorious thing - you could go anywhere in the EU and be better educated, harder working and better looking than 95% of the locals, 99% in some places. These kids are going to rule the world one day and they'll have earned it - but we'll have thrown it away.
Just because it seems so difficult to circumvent, any strategies in mind to avoid this?
It's unfortunate if it came across as one-sided, but I tried to make a point that "noticing nuances" works for all sorts of relationships. In this case, yes, I royally screwed up my relationship with that girl ... but being selfish and ignorant to other's needs and desires goes way beyond just romantic relationships. So yes, I agree, "they" are certainly people, and this is a reminder to treat each other how you want to be treated.
The problem with BYOD is that it's in the businesses interest to ensure all employees have the same tools/capabilities. If I'm sending a document to a co-worker should I have to guess what format his device will be capable of receiving/displaying? Not everyone is capable of owning and maintaining the proper equipment. If employees are asked to meet a certain minimum standard on their own, what are you going to do for those who can't or won't? Conversely if you ask IT to support any device brought to them, you'll end up spending more than just buying a standardized device to begin with.

The success or failure of a BYOD based system would be based on how low you can set the functional standards bar combined with the average tech capability of your users. If you've got an organization of geeks, and all that's expected is email/voice/texting then BYOD works. Conversely if you've got an organization of low tech skill users, and business critical/complicated/proprietary apps then BYOD will fail. How poor would UPS delivery be if every driver brought their own bar code scanner?
It looks even more like F# async workflows, which compared to the C# async feature have the advantage of being implemented in the current shipping version rather than the next one.
I feel for you dude. Keep fighting the good fight, but you're probably wasting your breath.

This is a continuing source of confusion for me, how a group of people who generally can't rest until they understand something can be so willfully ignorant about patents.
> If taken as accurate, it tells me that I am not ready for a girlfriend, if it means I can't ogle other girls.

Depends on what kind of relationship you want to have. In my last one I ogled other dudes all the time.
The cheaters to non cheaters ration should be 0/108. If 80 of the students are allowing 28 other students to cheat, I'd be definitely pissed off at them.
> In Mono's case only Novell/Attachmate were able to dual license the runtime libraries, otherwise licensed under LGPL, making it unsuitable for the demands of companies wanting to embed Mono in games (just an example).

You can mix LGPL and proprietary code. I see no reason LGPL libraries would prevent embedding Mono.
"USA is in the same situation that Greece is"

Because that's not true. Check the debt loads vs GDP, for one. There is a stark difference. The US is far better off.
You can do it (research this topic, take all the notes you like, bring them into class, answer some questions (possibly in long-form), ...

At least some university do exactly this for the Comprehensive Exam required as one part of a master's degree. My wife is preparing for something very much like you described for her master's in history right now.
One (not uncommon) scenario is when two identical (or high match) assignments are turned in, and the professor does not know if (1) the students collaborated or (2) one student cheated off of the other. Penalizing both students is clearly wrong if one student did the assignment properly without cheating, and the other student copied the first student's work.

How can the professor determine which student cheated (or if both students cheated), without spending substantially time looking into it and talking to both students?
Yes, from everything I have read it seems to be a foregone conclusion.
I was going to say, I submitted this but unfortunately I have nothing to do with the website. Caroline, great job. This community is great, people give great advice here, good luck!
"They make money on selling Google Apps, Maps service, etc to manufacturers and carriers."

Would love a source on this... AFAIK Google never publicly said Android Trademark and Google Apps were not free (apart from the obligation to pass the CTS test suite)
Cool. But I can't use the website on a laptop with a 1366x768 screen: the buttons aren't visible. I can't scroll to them. (If I push F11 I can see them.)
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You didn't even tell him the right word -- if you wanted to help him learn English, you might say something to the effect of:

queue -- noun. A first-in, first-out data structure, such as a supermarket line, or processes to be scheduled naively.

cue -- verb. To prepare for, to bring up, to introduce, typically used as a command. Also noun. an indication that it is time to do something, cf. "that's our cue!". Also used in the phrase "on cue", meaning timely.
My weekend project: Varade.ro, an out of office message generator
I was tired of receiving plain text out of office auto-reply messages and created Varade.ro, an out of office message generator that lets anyone create a nicely looking "out of office card" that you can add to your mails or share with your friends.

Thanks for trying it out!
derleth, I can't reply to your reply to the above reply. (Follow?)

As I pointed out, you have edited your reply, with no indication that it was edited.

Your original reply was not helpful. You were taking the opportunity to ridicule someone, with sarcasm. Your current version (assuming no further edits) would at best have no downvotes. Your original version deserved every downvote it got (none of which were supplied by me).

I assume you yourself know this, otherwise you wouldn't have done the edit.

EDIT: added the following: "I'd understand this better if people didn't always pick the longer word when the short one would be correct."

The fact that one word is shorter in this case is not what made the original usage wrong. Length had nothing to do with it. It was merely wrong.
Ask HN: Where is the Django community?
I'm debating whether to pick up Ruby on Rails in addition to my basic django knowledge, and as I explore the RoR community, I can't help but be amazed at how rich and active it is. For learning rails there are 3 very high quality books that talk about the latest version (Rails Way, Rails Tutorial, Agile Web Development with Rails). Compare this to the books available Django, none of which discuss the latest edition and many of which are outdated(e.g. Django book v2 (the latest ed.) covers Django 1.0!).

This doesn't touch on the huge number of blogs/sites that are dedicated to ruby news and tips (e.g. planetrubyonrails, railscasts, etc.).

Is there a reason for this discrepancy between the two ecosystems? Am I just not aware of where the Django community lives? Also, for those of you using Django or Rails, did the size of the community for your framework of choice influence your decision?
In all honesty, that's probably because I once shared a HN link in email ... and I am pretty certain I now get automatically banned from the front page. It's kind of a bummer, but PG's ruling is final.
How about making a game out of it. A game where cheating is permitted but punishment is administered with more granularity. Let the students know that all assignments are submitted to TurnItIn. Let them also have a look at what you see on TII. Whenever a student's plagiarism threshold is above 50%, their actual score gets docked by 1-(percentage plagiarized). So if a student submits an A paper (say, 93%), but it turns out it was 70% plagiarized, the new grade with cheating penalty becomes .93*(1-.7) = 28%. Smart students will quickly realize that any cheating will at least cut their possible grade in half.

I'm not sure this will work, but people have strange behavioral motivations and incentives. It reminds me of the daycare that wanted parents to not pick up their kids late (as employees had to remain to watch the children). Their solution was to impose a penalty for any extra time over the scheduled pickup time. On the surface, you would think this helped, but instead it had the opposite effect. Parents now understood that it was OK to leave their kids longer because they were being charged for it, whereas before there was a social stigma of arriving late and inconveniencing the daycare center.

With students, it's possible that making plagiarism acceptable on the surface with well-defined penalties may have the desired (and opposite) effect of reducing total cheating.

Also, couldn't the grading structure be established in such a way that it is impossible to pass the class without knowing the material demonstrated through exams? If the only (or most significant) portion of the grade comes through reports and take-home, cheater-friendly exercises, then the grade structure would seem to be broken. Cheating on the homework should only hurt the students, since they won't be able to cheat on the tests, and obviously haven't learned the material enough to do the homework on their own.
One has to wonder how much longer the typical bookstore (in it's current form factor) will be around. The large book retailers are already retrenching, but hopefully a market still exists for the small, independent, bookstores that add so much character to Main Street.
I'd say the license fee is limited by the costs of an alternative solution, isn't it.
LMAO at the photo caption: "Wherever Senturion is housed it probably looks a lot like this, but more ominous and with blinkier lights."
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Look on the bright side: she was wrong on tips: they're calculated on net price and need not include the tax. If you're tipping based on total (incl. tax), you're tipping few % more than you intended to.
Good point. Although, if students are cheating rampantly, which seems likely at your school, then teachers may feel they have to assign more busywork to compensate.
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If the patent explicitly mentions its use in a touch screen phone (as opposed to simply highlighting it and adding it to a menu option, like dumbphones did before the iPhone) then this is a fine example of why US patent law needs reform.
It's part of the base install for every Mac OS X computer too (under the guise of "web sharing").
I'm probably missing something, but I don't see how driving the marginal cost of human necessities (food, shelter, clothing, health care, education) to zero is anything but a good thing.

Is the world worse off because we have innumerable, self-replicating automated "robots" (plants) which, for free, convert carbon dioxide back into oxygen? Should we prefer a universe where humans must do this themselves? Now what if rice harvested itself and walked to your door every morning? Would that be a bad thing?

My thinking: if we have robot farmers, delivery drivers, tailors, doctors, etc. we've reached the Star Trek universe where the replicator eliminated all scarcity (maybe not with a molecule-by-molecule copies, but a robot which can build anything we need cheaply).

My hidden premise is that people do "work" (labor they don't enjoy) to ensure their survival. There are other issues like status, prestige, satisfaction, etc. but I'm talking about the basic fear of unemployment ("unemployment is bad because you could starve and die").

If the survival cost is 0, then there should be no fear of unemployment. You'd have 100% leisure time for art, study, etc.
Its traditionally "Cue" which can be a reminder , so "Cue the current thread" means "take a look at this current thread" not "get in line for this thread".

I say this having read the original term phonetically and not even realizing the mistake which is likely common and really didn't need to be editorialized.
I wrote a userscript that dials down the whitespace, if anyone's interested: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/105891
And for a real life example, just take a look at Fannie May and Freddie Mac.
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