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From April. HN's de-duping system seems to be broken. Identical URL posted as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2590862.
It's refreshing to know someones mind is deeper in the gutter than mine since I didn't see that upon checking out the game ;)
Chemistry causes another, specific problem: I was told that in the pharmaceutical industry, one would patent one molecule at a time. If someone else found a slightly different molecule with the same effect, the patent offers no protection. It may sometimes forces laboratories to waste their time searching for similar molecules so they can patent them all (or at least a good deal).

So, while such patents wouldn't be bad, the system is still suboptimal (depending on the time needed to search for the similar molecules).

Plus, even if in this particular domain a patent system is better than nothing, it may be difficult to discriminate the domain. For instance, software patents don't apply in Europe. But if you care enough to specify that the whole shenanigan takes place on some sort of processing device, then you can sometimes pretend it is not a software patent. GPS devices for instance are subject to patents, though it is quite obvious that the core of the idea lies in the program, not in the general purpose ARM chip (I don't know about the GPS receiver). But if you turn the GPS device into a general purpose computer that happen to have a GPS program, you may be safe.

I'm not a lawyer, but it looks like any partial ban of patents is bound to be a headache.
Step one: learn how to Google ;-)

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+fin...
I still use quicksilver. That's going to be a bit sad when I give that up. I use functionality in it that doesn't exist anywhere else, though.
Just curious, but what do you think about Japan's women-only subway cars?
That somebody pushed a redesign through the biggest bureaucracy in the world (that lost $8,200,000,000 in 2010) is astounding.

That said:

a) They’re using low-contrast call-to-action buttons. It’s a sea of blue. USPS has red/white/blue in the palette – why not use red?

b) Their font size selection on many elements & sub-pages is equivalent to 8.5 point, for an audience that skews 35 years + that is a mistake.

c) Go check out http://mobile.usps.com/ - for usability which do you prefer?

I wonder how much conversion rate optimization could help close their funding gap . . .
Free ride? That's ridiculous. Developers and partners make or break a platform. How many iPads did Apple sell because of the Kindle app? While there aren't hard numbers, plenty of bloggers talked about deciding between getting an iPad or a Kindle. Based on ebook sales figures, we also know that iBooks is probably third on their own platform, which is another significant clue about what ebook readers would have chosen. Apple is making a big mistake here and given that these changes have been in the works (and protested) for months, it is not one they're likely to fix quickly, if ever.
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You see alot of this at startup weekends in France.. "checkout my startup! a Wild idea, powerpoint presentation, and my launch rock page" umm.. no
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He was charged with Vehicular Homicide[0], which is a felony. I'm curious how many years of jail he gets. Wikipedia states that in Georgia it's 3-15 years of prison, and in Louisiana it's 2-20 years. I agree it'd be nice if this was more consistent state to state though.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_homicide#Washington
We include our real email address from a real person for just that reason. Only problem is we get a LOT of out of the office messages etc. We have gotten better at filtering them out though.
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I know according to the rules you aren't supposed to ask other people to flag stories, but this is a case where I think it's worth violating that rule.

I don't doubt that the author is a lurker, and really meant the "thanks HN". but if this gets upvoted enough, there will be empirical evidence that just posting links to iPhone games will be financially rewarded. It's an invitation to spam HN with cheap phone games.

Which is not to say you can't find a way to push your products on HN. Sales reports and post-mortems are basically just advertisements, but at least they offer something of value to the community in exchange for the impressions. Even just a solicitation for critique would be worth more, because at least then you have a conversation starter.

This is just an ad. Nothing more.
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Look, I've been reading the same science you have been for 25 years. I have excitedly followed every development from Hawkings discovery of black holes to Feynmans physics work to all the various string theory, dark matter, red-shift big-bang, etc...

I've been reading the same things as you have. I believed them too, as far as one can without any hard evidence. Even the people in this line of work tell you they have ideas, but few facts. When I found this, it seemed to actually answer, in a lab, no less, some things that common astrophysics can not explain. And it does it coherently, in a methodology that can be observed in a lab.
I love science as much as you guys do, and I think you ought to at least acquaint yourself with the plasma sciences, as they are amazingly explanatory of observed interactions both here and in deep space.

I'm not playing zealot here. Take the info as you will. But when I see a scientific explanation that stands up to scientific-method scrutiny, I believe it deserves to be considered in relation to other hypotheses that claim to explain events in a conflicting way.
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Forget IE, Microsoft put a lot of effort into Windows Media, Zune, ... Why should they make it easy for Apple to sell music on Windows?
Standard gravitons are already constrained to be almost massless, so i'm guessing the article is referring to Randall-Sundrum type massive gravitons in 5D.
I live in Brazil and I'm not sure we have that homogeneous english teaching system you think, we have several hundreds schools with several teaching systems... and every school choose their own book to teach and so on.

But It would be nice to know how I am standing against other Brazilians.

Also would be nice to get a comparison between other languages native speakers like how am I comparing to other Portuguese speaking people (Portugal) ? and comparing to Germans (they usually speak very good English) ? and so on...

Btw, great project... thanks for sharing.

Took your survey 3 times and got pretty close scores (2.000 works difference between them) so I think it's pretty good.

If you need any help from a native Portuguese speakers drop me an e-mail or message...
It's on Kindle.
i like hn's method of detecting duplicate urls, in that it will allow a reposted URL after some months. content at old URLs can change, discussion can be different given recent information, and new users can see things they may have missed before.

it would be nice to automatically see links to previous discussions for a link before submitting (for the submitter) and after submitting (for users), but there are probably more important features in news.arc to (never) get implemented.
Likewise, as much as the last name "Winklevoss" makes me want them to be the stuck-up rich assholes to Zuckerberg's self-made work ethic, Zuckerberg did go to Harvard from Phillips-Exeter Academy.

Financial Aid can do wonders, but that kind of track record spits money.
That's actually the whole point of iCloud. You'll have separate devices--screens with an SOC--but they'll all behave just as you describe. Each device pushes your data up to the cloud where it bounces back to the rest. Three reasons why Apple will go this way rather than your transformer approach:
-The utility is exactly the same
-Each device's hardware will be designed to be itself, rather than a compromisotron
-Apple gets to sell more devices
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Real names are valuable in so far as they can be used to build gender (and possibly ethnicity?) models. I doubt this is the primary reason Google is insisting on real names, however. More like: Myspace allowed fake names and it failed. Facebook enforces real names and it has succeeded.
http://pumpapp.tumblr.com/

Iroically, the app isn't truly native, but was built in jQTouch. When I get around to it, I'm planning to finish a native version, which I think it desperately needs to be.
I think if you took this technique plus input from compiler warnings and static code analysis and rolled them all together into a real-time IDE advisor you would have a nice product.

I don't think fixing programs in post processing is such a great idea but if the feedback can be used to make me a better programmer I'm all for it.

Scanning neighboring code is a really good idea, when I'm working on someone else's code I'll try to follow the exisiting practices instead of inserting bits and pieces in my own style.
It looks basically the same as the old site, and their pricing still absolutely sucks: Too many options, all with basically the same name, and they go out of their way to conceal the cheaper shipping while showing the expensive options. Also, the country selector is broken under Chrome. A classic case of rebranding instead of addressing existing issues.
I haven't tried this, but plan to try to use Amazon's mechanical turk for usability feedback. Maybe even some A/B testing if I get crazy.
Oh good, another rager in an SUV. Why is it always an SUV?
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Thank you. I had not thought of pitching it to a single university first. Valuable suggestion. I can think of several which would like this as part of their own marketingplan. Thanks
Do you think DoD did not think about it previously while they put transmitters on birds? I think it has to do with autonomy, speed (a real bird is more energy efficient, is more powerful and has a longer flight autonomy), and electronic signals betraying you (you have to physically come back with the data, not upload/transmit).
This looks nice. :) Haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it looks very promising. I very recently built a jekyll blog, and while playing around with the CSS was fun and educational, my blog seems kind of shabby in comparison with wordpress blogs and the like, and I don't know if I'd be able to get my design skills up to the point where I'd be able to make my blog look that good.

The most surprising thing and biggest issue I can see right now is that there's "a" theme - I was expecting several. But I imagine that there will eventually be support for more (user-contributed) themes. I also like the syntax highlighting (I think pygments looks kind of ugly), although I'd also like to see more support for customizing the highlight appearance, like maybe removing the background.
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If VCs actually were willing to fund companies based on their potential, as this essay supposes they should, that might be an option. Unfortunately, most VCs do not want to fund startups that cannot do business in most states, especially California.
That is exactly what cars are. They are weapons loaded with ammunition and ready to be fired. It baffles me that many people don't seem to be aware of this material reality.
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I took the test, and while a cool idea, I still have a problem with the fact that it doesn't actually test your functional vocabulary, but rather tests your perception of your own vocabulary.

I do appreciate that doing something more sophisticated would be considerably harder.
Yeah, I remember hearing about this! Wasn't there also a creepy case where an evolved circuit involved FPGA that weren't attached to anything else in the circuit, and yet were still needed for the thing to work properly? I seem to recall it similarly involved electromagnetic interference.
Interesting approach, but the problem here is Apple doesn't sell books on iPhone (or rather 3rd parties do and they don't do a very good job of it). This is more like a retroactive, me-to I want that market move. The Kindle app product is far superior for reading as I understand. If you're going to release a platform, you shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff. It's a similar situation as net-neutrality.
Anyone here develop for it?
There's a really pernicious fallacy among geeks that the difficulty of a hack has bearing on its offensiveness to the law. No. If you know you're not supposed to access something, and you take deliberate steps to access it anyways, you are culpable.
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1) The dom state is that everything inside the HTML element that you were waiting for already exists when the function is executed.

2) When i am writing javascript is very common for me to use the global object (window) as the context; so in my case is not a good idea to use the HTML element as context by default.
Perhaps in a few decades more, people will look back in amazement at the wastefulness of suburban sprawl as well designed urban centers and public mass-transit replaces the need for automobiles?

(In the same spirit as your prediction!)
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Selling them? Charging $10 per one. That's a cool million dollars.
I'm surprised to say that I agree (because I'm usually not a fan of flagging). You need X amount of karma to even downvote people on HN. There should be some participation bar to post a game ad.

With that said, if the author wants to submit a blog entry detailing some design/coding problems solved or description of his process in building the game or even a link to his sources, I'd happily upvote that story. But just a link to the iTunes listing of a game from a relatively new account is something that can be abused.
If having your password on a note is good enough for Schneier ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you... ), it's good enough for me. For pretty much the same reason. If you're going to even use a password, it should be a good one. And if it's a good one, you aren't very likely to be able to memorize it.
What a sad day it will be when driving becomes illegal for humans, I hope it is far far away.
There are much cheeper ways to make car traffic safer than going automatic cars route.
I can't think of a single reason why you would need my email address other than to email me.

Also, I feel like most of the questions had all those choices for no reason. I don't know how much meaningful information you could discerne by a person chosing "immediate family" vs "friend". Any? You should be more selective when you're creating a favor for others to do for you.
Just fixed the error. It was because the dot in your Facebook username (I didn't know it was an allowed character).
Also:

4 other apps on the app store:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/australias-computer-techs/id377590482
It raises some interesting points, like that it feels like ghost town. For me it does if I look at circles like "Family" or "Friends" while "Early adopters" is very active. Similar is on the Facebook. On the other hand I think that circles are usable and a natural way to sort people in groups/circles. Only time will tell who will prevail and it will be interesting to watch this fight.
It has that mindset to see what works and what doesn't.
I'll agree there probably are easier ways to meet and make friends.

That's cool. Everyone has their own taste. If some people are turned off by reading my blog, it's the same as dressing up a certain way (some people like it, others not so much).
Haha. Thanks. Appreciate it.
That is why it only uses getElementById to traverse the DOM.
I agree with option 1. But in order to calculate how much your salary is worth in equity, you'd need to estimate the worth of the company at some point in the future, your hourly rate and the risk that is involved.
In his case, if there is already funding, you could take the value of the company at the time of funding as a benchmark. If they got funding from a well established angel investor or VC, you also have an idea of the odds for success (1 in 10?).
What's the going rate for a full time developer?
Just multiply et voila... You know how much equity you want for your first year of work.
I'm guessing you used Cocos2D...?
Knew I'd have Internet woes with a Chromebook. Didn't expect it to be so buggy.
Startup Weekend is a big one that sounds like the perfect thing for you. It goes on twice a year (i think) in many cities. Just ask people you meet there what else is going on in the area? I have also used sites like meetup to find specific types of events for my interests.
We learned in Jr. High, that they come in all different shapes and sizes.
Every advance in science comes from people who challenge conventional wisdom, but the vast majority of people who challenge conventional wisdom end up being wrong.

I did read some of the page, but gave up after it was clear that he thought his "Electric Sky" hypothesis was an alternative to general relativity. It might very well be one could construct a credible argument in some areas, but look at the wikipedia page for tests of General Relativity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

A new theory can't just provide an alternative to one of those phenomenon or a handful. It must make the same prediction in every single case where General Relativity has been tested and proven right - and then it has to make new predictions where General Relativity will fail. That is the standard by which General Relativity replaced Newton, and by which we would test this if it had any hope of providing a replacement.

It is certainly true that cosmologists are accumulating puzzles and I expect that sooner or later we'll get a new theory that can resolve them. But this theory can't even explain the old puzzles that brought down Newton.
I have the idea but getting the idea onto a website and making it work is what I’m having trouble with

Having an idea is worth nothing. Creating that idea is everything. Unless you have other talents besides being an idea man, no engineer worth his salt will work with you.

That being said, there are a few avenues you can look into. The first, and most obvious, is to pay a programmer. Easier said than done, as there are a ton of startups that are willing to pay market rate + benefits and bonuses just to get good programmers (See Hipser giving $10,000 and PBR for a year to anyone they hire)

The second is to get a friend to help you out, or convince someone to work for you. Very difficult, but they might agree to this, on the assumption that they get a majority of the equity. I mean, implementation of the website is huge over just having an idea, so it actually makes sense that they would get the majority of equity.

Finally, one of the best ways I've found was to learn programming. Yes it sucks, and yes it won't be perfect, but if you just get a prototype up that shows what you attempt to accomplish, programmers will be much more willing to sit down and talk with you.

You can go to events and stuff and talk to people, but to be honest, I've heard many people pitch me their next "grand" idea, they just needed someone to program it for them, who will work for little or no money, and little equity.
Those are important amplifications and qualifications to what I said - thanks. :)
The laptop is massively out of place as the largest image on the page. It looks like they're trying to sell me a computer. Plus the computer has an image of the website I'm already looking at.

"Watch Video" looks like they're going to talk about the laptop.

Then the image scrolls to a woman who is having way too much fun tracking her package. What a weird design.

If you search for the word "Post" it comes up in tiny type in the footer as "Postage." Not what I'd expect from the Post Office.
This is a complete waste of time and development effort in my opinion. Why would anyone ever want an OS that does nothing but show a web browser? Don't get me wrong, I love web apps and build them myself, but isn't the point of web applications to be fundamentally cross platform? Also, the web platform isn't ready to be the only platform available for applications. I have yet to see a decent web based word processor, something that most users will want to use. The formatting options available in the web based word processors that I've seen have been very limited, and pale in comparison to even Pages on the iPad.

In summary, the web platform isn't ready for all types of applications yet and because of that combined with the fact that people looking for cheap and simple computers aren't even buying traditional hardware anymore - they're buying tablets. So, Mozilla, why waste your time with this project and instead use those development resources to make Firefox and the web platform better on all of the existing operating systems. Let Chrome OS see whether anyone actually wants something a browser OS.
More like the following:

Newton discovered that F = ma, and that acceleration was the amount of speed gained per second. When he said this people were all like "man, if we could only find a vacuum we could take a small amount of mass and a large amount of force and move something faster than the speed of light!" (Which they semi knew due to some sort of cosmological event.) But Einstein came by and said "hold up, Newton is right for slow moving things, but as you approach C most of the force goes into increasing the mass of the object."

Imagine it goes the other way, in a few years some guy says "Einstein was right, but he didn't take into account the fact that we can effect the Plank constant within a certain radius of an horizon-tangle-event, so we can actually build something that will change the relative size of space around us and effectively move faster than the speed of light."

And back and forth all day.
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Sending packages USPS is about 50/50 for me as to whether it will arrive at all.

Seriously? I've sent maybe 100 or so packages with USPS over the past few years. I don't think a single package hasn't shown up. A few have come in much later than expected (like a week rather than 3-days), but its one of the most reliable services I use.
I agree they are biased toward Facebook. They also have valid points. Maybe the future of social networks is like email. Each of us will use platform of choice for communication on a common protocol.
Zzzzzzz. I exercise my right not to relitigate Aristotle on Hacker News.
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Thanks for the feedback, guys. I'm going to go with gharbad's suggestion and do plain text combined with a PDF via LaTeX.
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The mugging was almost fun. Makes for a great story.
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But I already see one problem with this: your co-founders are probably working at a much lower "excepted hourly rate". I've heard people claim that the average silicon valley entrepeneur earns less in 10 years than someone working at McDonalds.
In other words, you may need to be willing to accept an irrationally low amount of equity if you need a cash salary.
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Just remember, it isn't a matter of whether self-driving cars ever fail. They only have to do better than the current, abysmal ~3,000 fatalities per day.
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