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To play Diablo 3 you need to be online all the time
> But if they want to complain about others forming groups when it's legal

Do you really mean 'when', or 'if'?

The Novell patent group were restricted by the DoJ as to what they could do with those patents. This would indicate to me the original terms were not quite as legal as you make it out to be, and that this kind of thing can easily happen in the future (precedent has been set).
Same thing here: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Diablo-PC-Gaming-action-rpg...
While navigating source code, I often need to use either "cd dir; ls -la ." or "less filename". So I wrote a little script called see which checks whether its a folder or a file and does the appropriate command, easy but useful.
"What if this is precisely the problem? My guess is that an environment that don't makes you think also tend to discourage learning. This would be sub-optimal in the long term."

imo, we should be thinking about the task we are working on, not the interface we are using to accomplish our task,
so the best interface is the one we don't even notice.
"Begg, Dornbusch and Fisher" for a one-volume treatise on Economics. That was my Economics 101 book last century, but constantly updated and revised the recent editions are still topical and clearly explained

Dornbusch and Fisher also publish a standard one-volume treatise on MacroEconomics which might be a better fit for your country-level requirements.
An environment shouldn't enforce thinking for the sake of learning. The average user will need to think enough to figure out what to do, they don't need brain-training puzzles as to how to do it.

Many GUIs fail to deliver in the long term, but it is not true in all cases. Take Adobe Photoshop for example; its interface is good enough in the short term to play around and intuitive so that the user can issue a very sophisticated command.

Graphical interface is a huge and blurry combination of science and art, and it still cannot solve every possible problem. Your subtitle editing case is specifically a command-line one - but there are good GUIs that can help you with search-and-replace in text files.
I'm also used to seeing
Do you want to do this? [n]:
What is not rich with http://sample.com/url/ ?

The URL could point to an image, a movie, a web page, JSON, etc. The only thing it does not make easy/practical is passing large data chunks inline.
Only if you imported your contacts. That list was only my friends on Facebook who put their numbers on Facebook. Most of them are not in my address book.
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I was confused with this part. People actually open and close their mail client several times a day ? Is it just closing the window or full app quit ?

For me and people I know, the mail client is the first app open after boot and it is always "open". It takes me less than 2 sec on my 3 year old computer to display new mail.
How spammers use big data and advanced web services
"It's all text!", https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
Sports ticket prices are collapsing. Is that good news for fans?
FMail already exists. https://www.facebook.com/about/messages/
People commonly misinterpret this stat to mean that only 27.5% of current high school students will go to college. That's completely wrong - it's just that few of the old people in this country went to college.

These days, about 68% of high school graduates end up in college (different stat than the percent that graduate)... So the "misconception" that most people go to college after high school is actually completely correct. Source: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/hsgec.nr0.htm
The correct URL is: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/opinion/dude-i-hacked-the-...
A good part of the federal debt from the stimulus and such is to keep state governments from collapsing due to the fact that they can't run a deficit.
Can you open source the code for news.ycombinator? Then all of us can supply changes and you can approve as you wish.
how do you know that's true?
cool talk.
I second this recommendation. After reading this book, I suggest "What has government done to our money?" by Murray Rothbard to understand the monetary problems in more depth.

Edit: Here are free pdf's for these 2 books:

1) http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf
2) http://mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf
Yes. Incredible. With Cosmos, Carl Sagan opened my mind up to the incredible wonders of space and what's out there a few years ago. It's up there with Planet Earth on the scale of seriously remarkable television series. Seeing this continue with none other than Ann Druyan and Steven Soter themselves gets a resounding hell yeah from me.

If you haven't watched Cosmos already, I highly, highly suggest it. Start with Episode 1: http://www.hulu.com/watch/63317/cosmos-the-shores-of-the-cos...
Ask HN: Finding a polygon given a list of random coords?
Help.

Is there any way of finding a polygon that would contain all of a given list of points? without any intersections.

I'm hoping to use it in an app built on Google's Maps API v3. Any help/links would be much appreciated.
I do see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/U/UTSL.html every so often.
That requires additional work from the Intent providers. They can no longer be pure JavaScript if they have to request data from other domains, it increases latency as you wait for requests to fetch the item to complete.
This is more important than you know. If you don't believe you can do at least 31K per month at some point very soon, you probably won't be going anywhere!
Generatus: A Social Networking Status Generator for Facebook, Twitter, etc
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Also there is a big difference between GOING to college and GRADUATING from college. A ton of people drop out during their first or second years.
There's a problem with that, though: fetchmail won't notice state changes in your mailbox — like, whether an email is read or not, whether you've replied, forwarded it already, etc.

That's why I came to despise the MUA/MTA schism of Unix so much: If I reply to an email on my laptop, I won't know it on my desktop. The only solution is to have a central server you can ssh into. Clunky solution at best.

Solution: use Mutt's semi-new IMAP interface. Nothing is stored locally, and I can see whether I've replied to emails, and I can delete/move emails regardless of the computer I'm currently on.
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Must read for every startup with early customers
Agreed. I glossed over writing the title and it's misleading. I meant to refer to the number of people who obtain bachelor's degrees.
Easy on the glow/gradients, buddy.
Rating the Agencies
an exclusion zone is not a control; it's an acknowledgement of lack of control.
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Understanding why Bayes' theorem is true isn't the hardest part. P(A and B) is both P(A) P(B|A) and P(B) P(A|B), and the result follows. I find this derivation easier to remember than the usual formula, by the way.
What frustrates me the most as an entrepreneur
"I have heard other lawyers compare leaving your wifi open to leaving a loaded gun lying around."
I talked some folks into using JSON output for a tool, and am now in the midst of fixing both ends so that the output is valid JSON, instead of a newline delimited file with JSON on each line.......
Never mind how many jobs my industry will destroy. With all the intricacies involved, its not worth my time. But, job creation is a game I can play.

My first business, a web development company will likely max out with 5-7 employees. My next, a jobs search site may involve a workforce of 30+.

Ultimately, I want to build a company that has a large social impact like FB. That's maybe ten years, a few billion dollars and 1000 employees away so no further comment needed. =)
Semi-related comment but...we need a HN-like site for Economics. I believe there was something like that before, but I'm not sure what happened to it.

Anyone interested in starting something like that on the side as a hobby?
Out of the box, it might not be the most intuitive text parsing tool indeed. It's trivial, but not immediately intuitive.

That said: strings are lists of chars, and Haskell is strong at pattern matching (esp within lists) in a bunch of different ways, so trivial text parsing tasks are trivial and intuitive in Haskell. For anything slightly more complex, there are regular expression and enumerating libraries which can do the job alright (and efficiently if I may say so).

EDIT: I'm sorry, can you give me an example of a problem so I can give you an example of a solution? :-)
Housing Protests in Israel (150k marching now)
Yeah, but Neil de Grasse Tyson, fine chap that he is, doesn't have anything like Carl Sagan's charisma.
Thank you for these resources and for responding. I don't have a very good grasp of programming basics, so I will check out Learn Ruby the Hard Way.
They've gotten a lot slicker than in 2007. Compare with an early seized domain. http://web.archive.org/web/20070716135725/http://www.girlspo...
They're a row of elements on the periodic table (lanthanides) which have a broad range of industrial uses (see the wiki). It is a misnomer, as many of them aren't particularly rare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanthanide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element

They occur all over the world. The US was once the leading producer, but (IMHO unreasonable) regulation forced its mines to close (they were in California). Currently China produces virtually all of them (97%-99%). There's a geopolitical stink about their protectionism: they're restricting exports, which (to my understanding) means they're intervening in favor of Chinese rare-earth consuming manufacturers (e.g. electronics industries). There's also human issues, in that the mines are a major pollution source and health hazard, and many (NYT estimates half) are operated illegally by crime syndicates.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs087-02/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/22/us-china-rareearth...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/14/us-china-rareearth...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/09/rare-earth_me...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/business/global/30smuggle....
But earning a living doing what? I think that's why we're all having this conversation. If I got laid off today because someone finally wrote the ultimate software development AI, I have no idea what I would do instead. This seems to be one of the only career paths left with substantial unmet demand momentarily sheltering me from the Iron Law of Wages, and I lucked out in being obsessed with it.
I think the coverage on TNW is better than that of TechCrunch's:
20 years ago today, the World Wide Web opened to the public http://tnw.co/piYgdv

What will the Web be like in 20 years? http://tnw.co/r6jnd3
All people alive today, not all people ever. The article cited[1] quotes indigenous populations in North and South America dropping by 97% and 93% before 1570— in the centuries since, it has become statistically improbable that any Native Americans descendants exist who don't share a European ancestor with you.

Now it comes from a computer model, so there could be errors or exceptions— I'm thinking extant uncontacted peoples, here. The model accounted for this possibility, as the paper notes: ...in order for a remote island to affect the MRCA
date, it must have been colonized prior to the lineage of
the mainland MRCA reaching the source population and
it must have remained genetically isolated until very re-
cently in order for there to be surviving people with no
modern mainland ancestry.

Remember that uncontacted peoples are uncontacted by us; the ones we know of have regular if infrequent contact with other tribes, so if contacted tribes share the MRCA it's quite probable that uncontacted ones do as well. Could there be a cache of 50-100 human beings somewhere on this planet who happen to share an MRCA with us who is older than the one shared by all other living persons, maybe 10,000 years? Sure. But they would be the only ones out of 7 billion.

[1] http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/Papers/Rohde-MRCA-two.pdf
I will definitely learn how to code so I can build out the prototype. Thanks for your response!
I Vote down poorly formatted walls of text, regardless of contents. If I can't read it without my eyes bleeding, then it isn't any use to me.

Most important is visually indicating in some fashion what text you are quoting and which text you have written yourself.

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Well it certainly seems to have put the situation under control...
If there's no restriction other than not wanting the lines to cross, then I'd find the centre of the polygon by taking the average of the list of points, then visiting those points in a clockwise direction.

If you need to restrict yourself to following streets on the map, it might be a bit trickier...
Ask HN: What content should I show on Home page for a mobile web app?
I am planning to work on a mobile web app which might not have a desktop version(atleast not in initial stage) due to its nature. It would be a typical client/Server architecture. So far the mobile web apps I have seen are actually the trimmed down version of desktop web app hence people are usually aware about service. I am looking for guidance about content I could/should show on home page of my app.

Thanks
I only check mail every few hours - when I need a break - and only actively correspond with people at the open or close of business. I don't have an open-door attitude at the office either.
Call this "Ruby Links" and make it less a temporary clone, more a permanent and vital resource.
The key advantages of a command line tool over a gui are power and flexibility.

There's any number of ways I can find and filter files using the find command, and then with xargs I can pipe them all through a sequence of simple operations.

In a typical gui file manager that kind of stuff is just not possible. The possibility space for what you can do is limited by the visual abstractions the original designer came up with for file manipulation. With command line tools that space is virtually infinite.

Often we consider the command line to be for expert users, and consider it our job as system designers to hide it from the rest. But when you consider that most people are able to learn basic calculus at school, a skill that has practical use in real life in only a limited number of professions, why don't we teach people to use the gnu tools at school? A skill that would enable them to use computers in powerful ways for the rest of their lives?
Keep in mind your question is quite broad like asking how to get started into programming.

You will get conflicting opinions on economic models and theories like you would on programming languages and algorithms.

The mainstream press provides brutally inaccurate opinion and talking points regarding economics. Completely ignore those articles and look into some expert talks like the npr posts recommended.

Study how the federal reserve decides to move interest rates - it is the post important macroecon process.
+1 for anything by Mankiw. We read several of his books when I was studying Econ in college a few years ago. Given your interest in inflation, government spending, etc, you'll want to focus on the chapters on Macroeconomics. I also found a good presentation from the Berkeley website that might be interesting:

http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/wood/e100b_f08/intro....
I don't have a mobile phone so it only shows my Facebook friends who publish their numbers. Nothing to see here...

My phone number is the only public piece of information I have on Facebook. That's only because it's a Google voice number which is the best thing since sliced bread.
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And it makes a big diference— as I mention below, our most recent common ancestor is probably only 2~5,000 years old. However, genetic testing puts the age of our most recent patrilineal ancestor ("Y-chromosomal Adam", the one man every man alive now can say was his father's father's father's father's...) at more than 60,000, possibly 140,000 years old, and our most recent matrilineal ancestor ("mitochondrial Eve", the one woman etc.) is ~200,000 years old.
Krugman has long ago given up any pretense of neutrality, and fails to outline any reason this downgrade doesn't make sense. Every metric you could come up with indicates the US is more likely to default now then say... 10 years ago. The road to this has been a long time coming, and both parties share responsibility.
Remember when the government telling us that radiation levels were safe and nothing bad would happen?
Sort them by angle from centre-point and join them in that order.
Ask HN: Fastest way to turn $250 into $500
What's that fastest way to double $250? Start a business? Buy then sell some kind of software, application, or product? Hire someone to write and sell an ebook? Invest it somewhere? Start a lemonade stand? Build something with it? What are your thoughts HN?
Sorry....my bad.
streets dont matter, and thanks for the answer, are there any libraries for doing calulation like this, or would i have to write it manually?
Really neat idea, I like it. From watching the demo it would seem that anyone who I want to share with would also have to have SocialFortress installed as well?
If you are an investor, and you think I should pay people peanuts to maximize your investment. Please go away. I disrespect you.

Shouldn't that be "You disrespect me"?
Am I the only one that actually gets a bit annoyed by AOL digs on TC? (Not that I regularly read it, so perhaps this is fairly rare since the huge number that came straight after the acquisition.)

They don't read as actual digs, they read as "by the way readers, you remember that we're not corporate whores right? well, just in case, here's an AOL joke that they said they didn't care about us making".
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it is a task done so fast and effortlessly by the human brain, that we don't even think about it.

It would be more precise to say those are the capabilities of one of the systems that comprise the brain. I think it's a mistake to lump the speed of perception in with the speed of cognition. To put it another way, pointing to the superiority of a gigabit ethernet connection is probably misplaced if it's connected to a microcontroller board running with a 5 MHz clock.

teaching the average person to use a new piece of software is near impossible without utilizing their incredible brain power for visual recognition

This is where I fear GUI enthusiasts often go astray: conflating everyday usage of software with the experience of people learning to use it. It is very useful to examine a light switch when you first encounter it, for example, but people quickly adapt to the common use case of flipping the lights on when entering a room without having to look at the light switch. Or in terms of the original article, most of the usage of a mail program is reading and writing messages -- an area where the advantages of icons, buttons, and menus are debatible.

BTW, CLI user are using their visual systems as much as GUI users are. CLI users are merely using a more structured format for their visual input.
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He probably means what he says. He can't be sure enough of the investor's internal thought processes to know that the investor doesn't respect him. In contrast, he can decide that, given what the investor's conclusions reveal about his thought process, he shouldn't respect the investor.
Ask HN: How to "seed" new social network with non-users.
Currently developing a site which allows users to sign up, invite friends etc. My network's redeeming factor is that it allows active users to manually add people within their network to their list of "contacts" even if they aren't yet registered.

This action will automatically creates a wiki-like profile for non-active users until they sign up. Only then will that profile become dynamic, actively allowing friend requests and message activity.

My dilemma? Even if well built, an empty social networking application is not a social networking site at all. So, let's say I have a school network of 4,000 people. What is a good, legal method of placing these people (photos and all) into the directory before they become active users?
Do you think that this really using argument is more or less a tautology?

(1) If people who wrote their website in Lisp (Viaweb, ITA, Reddit) continue using Lisp, then they are smart and Lisp is powerful.

(2) If those people (or new people) rewrite the website in a different language (C++, Python), then either (a) the new people are dumb (Lisp is too powerful for them!) or (b) the website was not really using features not in the new language (the powerful Lisp features were not used!).

EDIT: As noted by pnathan below, maybe it is more of a No True Scotsman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
This article is great if you have free legal representation, otherwise good luck spending less in legal fees than the offered settlement amount even if you are totally innocent.
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At the risk of arguing with Robert Pirsig, I have a mechanical engineering degree, and I can assure you that no amount of curiosity could motivate someone to get through that curriculum.

For instance, your curiosity about boundary value problems will likely be sated around the second lecture.
Good thing that science has charisma aplenty.
i'm pretty amazed at the handwashing here. not absolutely sure there's anything to see here, so move along and don't linger...
This is one of the worst books ever written. It's just an introduction to 1940s right wing politics.
The full text of this link should be required reading for all anonymous internet armchair valuation experts.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/ has really awesome summaries of key economic data and development.
Technology and a market for the common good
That's politics, not economics.
MR is a right-wing blog. Not so much economics.
Zero deaths directly from radiation so far.

This isn't too surprising, given that everyone working at the plant knew that it was melting down, and were taking precautions.

You can expect elevated cancer rates in the surrounding population, and from the people who stayed at the plant trying to stop the disaster.
I would downvote this if I could. The author clearly does not understand the principles of quantum physics. "Thoughts become things. Whatever you focus on, becomes your reality." Umm, no. Sorry, but your failed attempt at poor physics analogies do not improve your ideas about startups.
if by that you mean it has partially (and to what extent is unknown) isolated the thing we can't control at all and will be cleaning up for 30+ years (stated by nuclear expert in video fta), then yeah it's all fine. unless you can prove that all ill effects are contained within that exclusion zone, it's not control, it's the illusion of control to make yourself feel better.

so if they're finding radiation in rice crops hundreds of km away, is that still control?
I know I'm invoking Godwin's Law here, but wasn't "The Jews pushed Germany to WW1 and broke the economy" one of Hitler's excuses/propaganda peices? What's the difference between this argument and hitler's?
This is more than bad UX: asking me to speak for the privacy preferences of all my Facebook friends in one go is ludicrous, and more-or-less asking to be lied to.

It's like 20-page T&Cs, only worse. We all know that approximately nobody actually reads the T&Cs. But we can be damn sure that absolutely nobody will actually go and ask all their device contacts whether they're happy to have their details uploaded to Facebook.