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I can't see Monroe no matter how hard I squint, or how far back I am. Although, maybe this room isn't big enough... How far back are we supposed to go? Or did I get trolled?
I think Lion is beginner friendly, but I think they are going in the entirely wrong direction with the "iOS inspiration" thing. But it doesn't matter for me—I live in the world of the command-line and keyboard shortcuts.
only those who are not ultra wealthy would be screwed if pauls policies were implemented. thats not to say i support keynesian ideology, either. i have met (an increaing amount) many people who somehow think they are set for a full economic collapse because they have "significant" amounts of their assets in gold. imo unless "significant" is in the 10s of millions, one can expect near instantaneous impoverishment.
I've read some of James Hague's more recent posts on FP, and I got the same idea from them than @radarsat1. But more importantly, until I see someone adopting FP for the game logic in a innovative game - re-writing Pacman doesn't have the challenges of programming something while inventing it - and concluding that it is beneficial, more productive game design with FP is an unproven idea. See @eru's answer with the Tim Sweeney talk.
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpol

Karma > 200 is required.
Unfortunately adware/malware Chrome extensions already exist. Granted removing that is much easier than removing some nasty software installed on a traditional OS, but the type of user that's not savvy enough to avoid malware wouldn't know how to remove a Chrome extension :\
Lion still has the concept (as does iOS), except it's rendered effectively useless by the new Automatic Termination feature and the correspoding quick state restore, which is very close to what iOS does. Also, Lion hides the 'open app' indicator by default for new installs, so beginner users have even fewer hints at the concept of quitting an app.
This is an excellent point. This gives the inventor sufficient protection, and lower the incentive to hog patents by non-inventors. May be a gradual degradation would be good. Any non-original inventor held patent expires in 1/3 of the time.
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Lion actually adds some APIs so developers can make their apps work like iOS apps. If the developer allows, the OS can kill their app at any time when it's in the background. More info here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
Side note: The author has a very god marketing blog http://heidicohen.com
Poll: How do you manage your SSH keys? (one, one-to-many, many-to-many?)
I've heard various schemes, never really got a feel for which way the wind blows though. Wanted to poll the community. Thoughts and votes greatly appreciated.
One and only one key for Holly Hacker?
One key for each device Holly uses (eg, she runs ssh-keygen once for each new desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone)?
One key for each remote server Holly accesses? So all of her devices have a key for example1.com and another for example2.com?
One key for each connection? Does Holly run ssh-keygen on every device every time she establishes acquires privileges for a new server?
There are new APIs in Lion that enable the system to automatically quit applications if they're not needed at the moment. Pretty much like iOS.
id like to read the study you cite that shows a correlation between tight monetary policy and GDP growth.
can you link it?

yes to term limits
As I do not have karma >200, would you mind creating the poll?

If not, I understand, but I will upvote.
Rovio is in a unique position to effect change here. They should yank Angry Birds from US app stores and say "sorry America, you can't play because your patent system sucks". That would create the kind of mass upset that might actually get something done about this problem.

Giving in to Lodsys might make fiscal sense in the short term, but they would be painting a target on themselves for the snowballing patent troll industry. All genuine technology companies, but especially those at the formative stages like Rovio, need to think about the future health of their industry. Don't negotiate with terrorists.
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How can you say there's no reason to discover to discover the difference between apps/system yet argue that they'll notice they jumped from one app to another? And as web apps approach the look and feel of native apps this will become harder to understand.

As you point out, the distinction isn't necessary for many novices. Yet Apple is making the distinction a fundamental aspect of their gesture model.
The price is astronomical. I can turn my EeePC into a homemade chromebook with $0 and I paid much less for that years ago. I would assume that you could strip the chromebook down to $150-200 precisely because the hardware specs required for a glorified browser ought to be considerably lower than for running a full-fledged OS. Perhaps I'll have to wait for some Tegra chromebook to get the price/perf figure to a more sensitive level: even the latest smartphones should be able to match the requirements for a chromebook.
That would be a very interesting question. But without testing people's entire vocabularies (as opposed to our sampling technique), I think it would be difficult to detect.
Most crimes aren't strict-liability, and for all of those, the state has to prove mens rea. It's not an optional thing, or something that has fallen out of fashion.

Similarly, there is a huge body of law around what it takes to convict for an attempt as opposed to the actual crime. Attempts also require actus reus, but of a different sort (for instance, "an attempt occurs when the defendant has obtained control of an indispensable feature of the criminal plan").
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She hasn't been sentenced yet so hopefully the judge will go easy on her.
+1's are linked to individual Google accounts, it's probably more effective to ban the actual accounts. Also for those who said it's bot nets, typically the way these things work is the people doing the "plussing" get paid a very small cut. See Subvert and Profit as an example from both sides of the coin.
> We need a patent nuclear war. This needs to end. BRING IT ON LODSYS. May every patent holder in every nook and cranny start cashing in.

I couldn't agree more. I fundamentally disagree with what they do, how the patent system works, etc, but I think these malicious actors will serve to take down the system. The more patent suits of these sort go up, the better I believe the odds are that we'll end up with some sort of sanity.

Or we'll end up with more bullshit legislation which does nothing but make it harder to do legitimate business. We'll see.
It's a physical address [1] and in the radio show they actually visit it. They describe the location as being a little eerie:

The office was in a corridor where all the other doors looked exactly the same —locked, nameplates over the door, no light coming out. It was a corridor of silent, empty offices with names like "Software Rights Archive," and "Bulletproof Technology of Texas."

[1] 104 E. Houston street, suite 190, Marshall, Texas
As an aside, this holds for more users than just those using AOL. For example, corporations, mobile phone users and universities.
I'll admit it - I laughed at "The KFC Famous Bowl of window management"
The short answer is no, absolutely not. You should be making a deliberate decision about who you invite into your social graph. Ideally, these will be people you respect and admire, but it's fine to have people with whom you only had a typical decent working relationship. Do not, under any circumstances, connect with people who did not treat you with dignity and respect. For one reason, you don't want them badmouthing you behind your back if a recruiter goes to them for a reference. More importantly, the people you highlight in LinkedIn also represent a vision of how you would create your future professional life. Choose people you would work with again, not people that were a blight on your existence.
I think many of us are actually still addicted to RSS readers although it may not always be Google Reader (I still have many feeds stuck in MyYahoo! because I started with them when it was shiny and new). Granted that may be a small group of users, but it's certainly the power users. By the way this doesn't just include techies but also includes journalists and other news junkies.
No, it's there. If you blur your vision by squinting you should see it - slightly crossing my eyes while squinting helped.

I can see Einstein normally though. Basically, the blurrier the image looks to you, the more like Monroe it will look.
Ask HN: How do I instal GASP on my Mac?
Hey guys, I recently started to teach myself python using How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python v2nd Edition. A few of the chapters involve using GASP to make games. I have not been able to find a good explanation of how to get GASP for my mac. I'm running Lion and have python 2.7.1 Any advice?
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the article is wrong, it's not seoshop.com it's http://seoshop.biz/
Here's an article with more photos of both vehicles, and a video of local news coverage:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/28655663/detail.html
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More information on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Kehoe

And his illness with leukemia was recorded at length by Brendan and his wife Elana at http://zen.org
We have our wires crossed; I see why: I'm writing message board comments, not essays.

There are two issues of intent here:

(1) There is the question of whether Swartz's repeated accesses of JSTOR were done knowing that access was wrong, or recklessly, or purposefully to accomplish an illegal end. This question, of "mens rea", is I think reasonably established in the charging documents by things like MAC address spoofing.

(2) There is the entirely speculative question of whether Swartz had the intention of "liberating" all of JSTOR onto BitTorrent. Nobody knows whether this is true except Swartz and possibly the DoJ. My suggestion here is only that we don't know all the evidence, and perhaps some of the severity of the DoJ's response is based on evidence they have but have not yet disclosed to the public.

The confusion here is my fault. Sorry.

I certainly don't believe that Swartz should be prosecuted for thinking JSTOR should be liberated, or that the DoJ should be building a case based on what they think he was going to do next.
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Alternate headline:

OS X Lion: There is still plenty of BS click-bait to be mined from this topic.
Ironically, most complaints about Vista also fell in the "people complaining about change" category. There were a few annoying things about Vista (UAC was a bit more annoying than it should've been) but it wasn't that bad.
Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
No, but I do use another RSS reader on a daily basis
according to the siracusa review, lion works more like iOS, in that the OS can reclaim resources from 'open' apps, and sometimes leaves processes open for a short time after they are closed. I think this is what was meant about not quitting apps, the concept is still there, but not really needed like it was previously.
Yes you are. A court in Italy found several Google executives, that had never stepped foot in the country, personally criminally liable for a Google Video video that violated Italian law. Those execs wouldn't want to travel to Italy while that ruling stood, if it doesn't still. http://www.thedomains.com/2010/02/24/italy-finds-3-google-ex...
I made one for you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2804734
Interesting that the community has to go through Scoble to get any answers.
I backed away from my laptop by about ten feet, at about a 45 degree angle, while sitting down. I was startled how much it was, at that distance and angle, clearly a picture of Marilyn Monroe.
Whilst I don't have stats on hand, it's FAR more likely in your state for a plea bargain than in the UK, since that's the way each legal system is structured.

So, in the UK, you can pretty much guarantee you're going to be in trouble. In the US, there's a reasonable chance you'll get off.

That completely changes the risk balance judgement you make before you go and drink-drive. (obviously that's speculation, but I think it's a reasonable statement).
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Here's the paper detailing the process: http://cvcl.mit.edu/hybrid/OlivaTorralb_Hybrid_Siggraph06.pd...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_image
A FAQ page has to be one of the least technical parts of a web page. The addition of stats isn't very compelling either. It would be easier to setup event tracking in my analytic software then it would be to configure in a whole FAQ page.

Skeptical of the demand for something like this.
Are specific parts of the transcript such as GPA or individual course grades of any importance, or is the completion of a degree + relevant courses in your specific field enough?
Wow. These guys are legends.
Hi Khao,
This is the way I should and have been going about.
Just on the rough days my mind starts to wander to other more exciting cooler/sexier projects.
This may happen, if I reach a roadblock with FB. So I need to just buckle down.

Thanks
Ask HN: How do acquisitions work with multiple products in one company?
Our company sells two products under one corporate entity. These products share a significant amount of code as both are basically the same product re-branded to serve two different markets.

If a company decided they wanted to acquire our company, how complicated will things get if we wanted to sell off just one of our products and keep the other? Is this situation common? Are we better off forming two separate entities now?

I ask because we think it will be easier for a product to get acquired on its own since the products serve such different markets.
I thought Microsoft's BizSpark program was designed just for you.

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/About/Default.aspx
If they caught Aaron, he gave up all the documents, and in the course of investigating him got a warrant for his email, wherein he wrote a series of messages about how he planned on liberating JSTOR, the evidence of his intent becomes relevant.

We are just talking here. I have absolutely no reason to believe that there is evidence that Swartz was going to liberate JSTOR. It's just, people seem to want a "why is the DoJ going so nuts about this", and I'm just saying, "here's a what-if".
Ask HN: Page load performance  monitoring tools
So I'm looking to put together a suite of tools put together some metrics of page load performance for my company's sites. I already know about:

* www.webpagetest.org
* www.yottaa.com
* Google analytics has some meaningful stuff
* Internal tools for back-end performance (number/time of database hits, etc)

What other tools should I be looking at to gather a comprehensive set of metrics?
I got this game over the weekend. The one thing that really stood out was the soundtrack. It really contributes to the fast-paced tempo and creates a sense of urgency. My only gripe is there are only 3 levels, and I beat the game in about 20 minutes, but hey, it was free.
I interpreted that it meant, especially concerning usability, that those strategies are not things you can easily differentiate with, they're rather commodities.
If you want to take off, you need power. Look at a largish bird taking off, and then factor in the power/weight of the human body... you'll need to haul some ass.
To me this looks like a career move by the prosecutor who wants to get some convicted hackers on his CV, which will look good when it comes to promotion time as these crimes get more and more relevant. The US justice system seems to have degenerated so that prosecutors do anything to get some people convicted, as long as they are a) popular or b) it helps them in some way, regardless of the quality of thee evidence or the merit of prosecution to the general public.
I'm writing from a phone, unable to write with any depth.
See this list of papers written on the topic

http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/papers.html
We are clearly moving towards a world of more web-based applications, but I'm disturbed by this because it means all my data is stored unencrypted on other people's computers. We're slowly placing our lives in the hands of the essentially anonymous individuals who control the apps we use.

Here's an alternative that we could in principle choose: Apps can be delivered over the web, but data is stored locally. If it is backed up remotely, then it is encrypted first. If our app communicates with other users, then it does so P2P instead of through a central service. These steps would ensure the company whose app we use only knows that we are using the app, and not what our data is or who else we are interacting with. Unfortunately, this technology is not very easy with the present state of JS/HTML. I'm not even sure if it is in principle possible for a JS app to create a TCP server. Some quick Googling reveals it may only be possible if you use Flash.
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Could you recommend some good resources for learning more about collaborative filtering? I'd love to help hack, but feel like I should learn more first.
Thanks for creating: http://twitter.com/#!/cmaury/status/95607756299571200
I use Reader on a nearly hourly basis. I suppose I should stop that...
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I really need a scenario walk-through with screenshots seeing how this service looks to my users and maybe to a lesser extend, admin controls that I'll be using.

UPDATE: Ok so I walked over to their FAQ page[1] and don't see anything that would make me want to offload my content to a site I have no idea how long it will be in service.

Don't mean to crap on the team, but much like almightygod said, I don't see the value proposition here.

[1] http://www.faqme.com/faqme
The problem is with the US patent system, not with the patent trolls.

The benefit to society of granting a patent is that it gives companies an incentive to do R&D. The cost to society of granting a patent is that other companies have to pay money to use the same idea. In a healthy patent system, the average benefit of a patent is equal to the average cost of a patent.

If the average benefit is higher than the average cost, the Patent Office should be more lenient in granting patents, or should lengthen the term of the patent. The former solution would increase the number of patents, but the new ones would have lower average benefit. The latter solution would reduce the average cost of a patent. Likewise, if the average benefit is lower than the average cost, the Patent Office should be stricter in granting patents or should shorten the term of the patent.

The average benefit from a software patent is quite low; most software patents are for an obvious solution to an uncommon problem, not for a clever solution to a common problem. The average cost for a software patent is (currently) pretty low too, because patent holders usually don't assert their rights; but if patent holders asserted their rights whenever they could, the average cost would be very high. The solution is for the US Patent Office to be much stricter about assigning software patents.

In a healthy patent system, patent trolls aren't a bad thing. Patent trolls raise the price of patents by buying and using them; that increases the incentives to do R&D. Since in a healthy patent system, the cost to society of the patent troll asserting its patent rights is equal to the benefits from the R&D that gets done, that isn't a problem.
Most of what I learned was from Programming Collective Intelligence (http://amzn.com/0596529325). If you're in the Bay Area, Noisebridge has a self-taught machine learning class that I went to for a while (great group, I just couldn't make the time commitment).
Canards come to mind right off the bat.

Even military aircraft aren't pushing the envelope in design features anymore

Ever seen the JAS39 Gripen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripen)?
Why are you talking about not having to quit apps? Lion still has the concept of quitting apps versus closing windows. Are you just talking about iOS or am I missing something?

Lion supports a feature called Automatic Termination that allows the system to automatically quit applications in the background, similar to the behavior of iOS. Start TextEdit, close the document window, and switch to another application. You'll notice the app disappear from the dock because it has been quit by the system.
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Computers are cruel beings. You do one little thing wrong and all your work is gone. After being punished so much, it's no wonder older people are less playful (or many people who we call 'non-tech-savvy' or 'computer illiterate'): they don't want to get burned again.

Imagine you're working on a painting, and you have a cup of hot coffee sitting right next to it. You know that it's dangerous to keep that cup of coffee there and that a wrong flick of the wrist can ruin your work. So you get up and move that cup of coffee far away.

Compare this to computers: there are all sorts of cups of coffee right within your "clumsiness distance," except these cups are hard to see at first. So if you accidentally ruin your work with a spill, the geeks will come yelling: "you should not have hit that cup off coffee!" "You should've known it was there!"

Doesn't that sound ridiculous? Well, this describes years and years and years of web mail systems where you could accidentally close your window mid-e-mail and lose your work. GMail was the first e-mail provider to offer autosave as late as 2005, and, while I have no hard data to confirm, it was at least several years until Yahoo or Hotmail had that (and my paid e-mail provider Fastmail didn't have it until '09 or something like that).
Try making the image smaller. I don't have a lot of room in front of my monitor either, but by shrinking it down and scooting my chair back I could start to see her. It wasn't perfect though, it sort of looked like Marilyn Monroe crossed with a death's head.
No, but I do use Reader at least weekly
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I live in the UK also, and while it is disapproved very strongly by lots of people, there are still plenty of people that drink drive. Amongst some generations, and within certain public houses, you'll find it's done on a nightly basis.
No, but I do use another RSS reader at least weekly
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If the search engines give weight to something in terms of being a ranking factor, it WILL be manipulated.
looked over the top of my glasses and it changed instantly to Monroe. I would prefer they changed the text from short-sighted to near-sighted though.
the fact that she was convicted at all defies logic - how would her and her children being on crosswalk have stopped the drunk driver which had 2 previous hit-and-runs ? (until of course it is a crosswalk above or below the road - not likely seeing the photographs of the road and the neighborhood). Even then, lets suppose instead of the drunk driver there were a gang shooting (or just a drunk shooting cans) and the stray bullet - would she still be convicted of the jaywalking? Dissolution/de-emphasizing of the importance of "mens rea" while increasing the punishment for just being at the wrong place at the wrong time is very worrisome tendency.
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While I do think the UK PSAs are probably very effective, I don't think it necessarily holds that the countries with the most shocking PSAs are the ones with the smallest drink-driving problems.
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