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I like these better: http://bugman123.com/Hypercomplex/index.html (Also includes some 4D ones.)
No way I'm gonna use this. I want to stay with my REGULAR browser interface. I use a 5:4 display and it would suck.
I don't normally comment prior to reading the post, but given a topic such as this i feel obligated:

This should read "Humans! Learn to write"

CS students are not alone in this need.

The one course, more than any other, that taught me to write efficiently and convey ideas clearly was my 400 level Philosophy of Mind course. We were to write 1 page (double spaced) essays, weekly, on the papers we read. The class argued our professor up to 2 pages.

When i received my first essay back, the full first page was crossed out. I learned not to include any dithering or bullshit in my essays after that, one page was almost exactly right. That was the point at which I really understood the joke "I would have written you a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time."

Edit: homophony: two -> to; in the most ironic spot possible.
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% up/down does not provide valuable data. If you have access to a Bloomberg terminal take a look at the free-float turnover. Shocking
He goes through all that and still doesn't actually present a case for his argument?

Guess he really is still learning to write.
Techies need to learn more than just programming. This isn't sarcasm.
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Middle managers at Microsoft can be successful because of a number of skills not relevant in a startup: ability to run huge teams, Microsoft institutional knowledge, political maneuvering and so on. Some of these skills might even be harmful in a startup. It will be interesting to see how Kindel fairs outside of Microsoft.
For another perspective on why R is worth learning, check out Zed's essay on it: http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

(note: just ignore the ranty parts and there's brilliance underneath)
Discussion from when they announced on Hacker News as Receivd—they've pivoted quite a bit since then, but makes for an interesting comparison.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2352852
>>but he says he still believes strongly in Microsoft’s long-term prospects against the likes of Apple and Google in the mobile market.

I think he looses a lot of credibility saying something like this. What does he base his belief on? Better not say anything.
BS.

RVM is not an overkill. It is simply the right tool for the job in case you are doing ANY ruby related development.

If you don't, then it's "sudo gem nstall". It will install it system wide using system provided ruby binaries.
It performs better on one other platform. In my experience, Flash is pretty awful anywhere besides Windows.

And I'm not sure what you mean when you say "the one platform that has the biggest problems should do something as well." Apple and many Linux supporters are doing something — they're aggressively pushing HTML5 and related technologies as an alternative to Flash, over which they have no control.
I see cost is mentioned a lot- but if BizSpark still runs how it used to, you can get a lot of tooling for free to start with, until you grow to where the cost wouldn't have as much impact on you. (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/)

I have a friend in the Bay Area who started in .NET, and had so much trouble hiring programmers they scrapped it and started in a more fashionable platform.

I don't know what others' experience is like, but you might consider the ramifications of that potential problem.
Alas, I had to deal with IE3. Not sure what to be proud about that thing (except for being a bit better than IE2).
The problem is probably that deciding whether two Unicode characters (where one character may be composed of multiple code points) are equivalent in general case is MUCH more involved than doing a simple byte comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence
Looks like a take on Cloudapp, http://getcloudapp.com/, but free and supports up to 150MB transfers. Cloudapp is free with premium features that supports up to 250MB and is dominating the space.
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I am aware of the history of WHATWG and you are right that its beginning was largely a reaction to the intransigence of W3C at the time. However, the current relationship is a healthy and collaborative one (I would certainly wouldn't describe it as fragile any more). I would have been remiss not to at least mention the WHATWG, but the footnote is already too long-winded and giving a complete history of the Web was not my purpose (others have done that better). There are many historical events that I painfully chose to omit because while they are personally important to me, they didn't actually add to the purpose of the post.

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I personally wish that there was a different term than "HTML5" to refer to the additional work happening around and on the W3C HTML5 foundation. But, unfortunately there is no replacement term that quite captures the full scope of what most people mean when they use the term "HTML5". I share your distaste: it has a version number in it for crying out loud, it can't refer to something vague! I considered trying to use my post to promote "HTML5+" or something similar so I would not contribute to the corruption of "HTML5". But I decided that was the impossible fight the popular usage and chose to instead pick a new term for the narrow reference "W3C HTML5".
I wish I had a hundred up votes for this post. Does the author of the article really think that the market had no idea that the US was venturing into dangerous territory with its debt to GDP ratio?
This should read "Humans! Learn two write"

Was this intended to be ironic? :)
> The Dow % doesn't reflect the average % downwards of its parts

It does, its weighted parts that is.
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I would add more than just writing - as he touched on, all communication skills. And yeah, definitely not for only computer science majors. Any person needs to work on their verbal communication skills as well!
Agreed, "definition" its an absolute .. By definition gravity pulls you down as an example.
What does the free-float turnover mean/represent?
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Things are bad, certainly, but let's not overstate. This reads like a very hyperbolic list of doomsaying to me.

China did not drop 30%. Predicting Austria will default is highly negative speculation. Hyperinflation in the USA? Not anytime soon. It is still the reserve currency, especially in oil, if not by merit then by default. What else is there?

Shit's getting serious, yes, but I think your list takes it too far.
Oh man. i totally missed that. No, i'm functioning on about 2 hours of sleep. I was attempting being extra-diligent for typos, and managed to miss that one.
The Zombie License

1) This license safeguards the rights of the public, and as such, any member of the public has standing to bring suit in its defense.

2) Use of any technologies covered by a zombie license implies agreement to the following: all other technologies currently patented by the user are subject to license under the conditions of this patent.

3) This license is irrevocable for the life of the patent on any covered technology except by full consent of all beneficiaries (ie, by unanimous public referendum).

Anyone who loses any patent lawsuit to a holder of these patents becomes a 'Zombie' patent holder. They were using zombie technology, so all of their technology now belongs to the zombies! Anyone can now sue to defend the zombie's patents, and if they win, they turn their victim into another zombie!

It converts the whole obnoxious system into a fun self-limiting game of tag.

(edit: I know, this probably wouldn't hold water, but think how much fun it'd be if it did.)
Good riddance. We've created a place where for DECADES companies like HP, Intel, Google, and Facebook have come to thrive. If all you want to do is spooge off of their success and not pay your fair share, be gone with you. With you gone, all the honest retail shopkeepers who are paying their sales tax have a little less competition, and have an easier time of it. When you get to Texas you'll find out soon enough that if you can't make a business which is profitable enough to pay an $800 annual fee you also can't make a business which doesn't have to pay any fees at all.
The inevitability in the movie Idiocracy is manifesting itself by having "set the clock forward" being considered an incredibly devious hacking technique and labeled as a 0day :P
It's good to see that even when everyone born these days are morons that there are still going to be a small subset of people who are more creative and intelligent than the rest.
In case you're interested there is substantial discussion about this in a previous submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817151

BTW: In case you think it's hypocritical of me to point this out when I have also submitted a duplicate item, all I'm trying to do here is help unify the discussion. My "duplicate" is intended to revisit a deep technical article from some time ago. I see that as different, and if you disagree, I'd be happy to have a discussion of the question.
I'm sorry for piling on, but the thing to do then is to do some research on the topic before submitting it. A few minutes of googling and looking at forums and change-logs should help give you an idea.
Doesn't the majority of LinkedIn's revenue come from recruiters? It makes sense that LinkedIn, Zillow, and Pandora are off more than the market as recruiting, ads, and real estate tend to get hit harder than the broader economy. Groupon was born during the recession, so may fare better than others. Deep discounting and coupons are counter-cyclical.
Competition in itself is definitely not news worthy.
this is sure one hell of an explanation. here's a shorter one from me:

simply put, you need metaclasses when you want to overload the "instantiation operator". the __new__ in a metaclass is used for making changes to a class before instantiation, and __init__ is used for making changes after instantiation. the implicit first argument to __init__ and other instance methods in a metaclass (conventionally called self) is the implicit first argument to class methods in the metaclass instance (conventionally called cls)

note that "metaclass instance" and "class definition" are synonyms.

i can't think of a use case where __call__ would be useful, because it's technically the ctor of the metaclass instance. also, i think that using callables other than 'type' subclasses is being too clever with an already complicated concept, so i'd avoid doing it.

this is based on my practical experience with metaclasses, so i might have missed something. but that's all i'm using metaclasses for anyway.
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I have to add that your method makes it really easy to avoid lame sites also!
The rumor is that Gnu grep does a slow conversion of each input character into a wchar_t. I haven't personally read the code and verified it, but I consider the following sources reliable enough to believe it.

http://9fans.net/archive/?q=%27gnu+grep%27+UTF-8+malloc&...
Where LED is valuable for me is the absence of mercury. I break an incandescent bulb in my home at least twice a year.
When knowledge isn't written, does it still count?
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In that case, using the word 'criminal' as if it's at all relevant to the situation is 'debate drift'. It's a loaded word and its use as a label carries well known connotations. I'm not disputing the tautological definition, I'm disputing the implicatons of invoking it.

Put another way, you don't often hear Gandhi or Martin Luther King referred to as 'criminals', even if by definition it's the truth. There's a reason for that, and there's a reason why I'd tend to be pretty skeptical of someone who chose such a label for those men in conversation, technically factual though it may be.
All code has assumptions. As the rest of the software stack and hardware change, system software often needs to change with it to remain correct. With no active maintainer, "works" is a question, not a given.
Even the W3C is not pedantic about "HTML5". A lot of what is advertised on their logo page at http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ (File APIs, IndexedDB, WebSockets, SVG, WebGL, CSS 3D, etc, etc) are not technically part of the HTML5 standard specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/).

As another example, look through the presentations on "HTML5" given at Google I/O. All the interesting stuff is not in the W3C HTML5 specification.

There are numerous other examples.

Try reading through the whole W3C HTML5 specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/) and you'll realize how little of what people refer to as HTML5 is actually contained in that document.
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I don't know about that. I don't know what the legal threshold for such a thing would be, but it doesn't seem arbitrary to me.

I mean, scrolls are a major element in fantasy games, just like swords and wands and potions. If you could claim one of those words as a trademark, such that no one else could use it, I think it would do damage to the genre.
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Neat! Definitely bookmarked, I love Show HN posts the most!
It's a shame that both Windows MCE and Windows Home Server never lived up to their potential. Possibly we can add WM7 to that list in a few years too. I can understand why he's leaving. It must be horrible to develop these really good products and see your company drop the ball on them.
I can not emphasize how important this is. I skimmed my way through most of my classes in college, dropped out, then became a self-taught developer. While I do well as a developer, this is the one skill that I miss the most.
Honestly, what's really missing from my life is a way to plug something into a USB port on my mac, plug something into a USB port on my friend's Windows computer, and give him 20 GB of pirated video. I would pay for that.
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Pressing b also opens show buffer window and you can select tab by pressing tab. You can also filter by title which is not possible in shift+b way.
Actually, Windows XP is the best selling version of Windows ever (maybe any OS).

From Wikipedia:

According to web analytics data generated by W3Schools, as of June 2011, Windows XP is the most widely used operating system for accessing the Internet in the world with a 39.7% market share, having peaked at 76.1% in January 2007.
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Being a fast-follower is often an excellent strategy.

I've long thought that somebody will make a fortune by setting up a company that clones successful America-centric startups into Europe, Asia and/or Brazil; using a fast-follower strategy to test core ideas, but then implementing them in untapped markets.
"All would be forgiven if it wasn't $40."

Early days.
While I happen to think the Github UI is quite nice, it's a minor aspect of Gihub's importance. Github basically invented "social coding" which I would argue has been a genuine phenomenon unmatched by BitBucket, Launchpad, et al (or Sourceforge). Git (and Mercurial) didn't offer substantial advancements over Bitkeeper (save licensing) and Git's popularity was solidified with it being chosen for Linux. While reasonable people may disagree on the merits of Git, Hg and Bazaar, it's difficult to put BitBucket and Launchpad in Github's circle.

While it may be ironic to value the importance of centralization on this topic, it's unwise to not to value it.

Downvote? Really?
And here I thought we'd end up with discussions of Star Trek, which I'm reasonably sure used phase space as the technobabble for something or another. I don't remember what, exactly, it was supposed to be there, but I suspect there were dangerous aliens living in it or something like that.
The article mentions this, but he actually left the WP team itself a while back, shortly after the initial release.
I still believe that too. Of course, when you work in a place for six years and have a lot of emotion connected to that place (see my farewell mail on my blog), it tends to bias your opinions :)
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The US Treasury is still the best house in an increasing dangerous neighborhood. The Euro is done. The Germans aren't going to backstop all of Europe.
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They are not "better warriors." UAVs are not completely robots. They need someone to control them. There is not a single military in the world where robots have surpassed human beings in most capacities. Perhaps the only one being bomb control, and even then, they aren't autonomous.

The "rich" people need the poor people. Without other classes, there is no rich. If everyone is in jail, who buys the goods?

What is money worth if there is no one to compare it to? If everyone is poor or in jail...why do you want money? For what? To do what? To drive a nice car that no one cares about because they can't afford food?

People are too quick to overestimate robotics and artificial intelligence. 100 years ago we were supposed to have flying cars, laser guns and teleportation. These were exaggerated views, just as ours are now.
the % of the capital/shares changing hands + if compared with avg daily trading volumes, the speed/time at which investors want to get rid off the stock
You've certainly identified some of the issues with the video tag for replacing Flash for video.

But the thing that may keep Flash kicking for years to come may actually be advertising. It's a pretty small matter for Google to reencode their youtube library as WebM (which they are doing) compared to getting all web advertising firms to switch from Flash (for which they know well and have well established tools and workflows) to HTML/HTML5 based advertising.
you mean like a usb transfer cable?
Unfortunately this implied "downgrade = stock plunge" association seems to be everywhere this morning with no mention that long term interest rates for US debt have actually dropped.

Depending on the source it's probably down to ignorance, lazy re-reporting or blind economic ideology, but if you believe that cutting government spending and services during a recession/recovery is a bad idea then it's a scary thing to see.
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If you knew you were buying one every other week for the life of the sedan, then would you decide to buy a truck?
That's not the way I read the original use of "criminal," but that's a legitimate argument to make. The thing to do would have been to say something like "I agree with you denotatively, but disagree with your connotations," and explain why. Not to fight debate drift with more debate drift.
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I wish either of these services would let users mix via line in or mic in so DJs could free form their tracks and mixing style. This, coupled with a 5-10 minute per room restriction on mix length, could really take the performance possibilities on these sites to the next level. Right now all you can do is use the site as a shared iTunes which is kind of disappointing for those fond of regular DJ performances.
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Could the downgrade not have led precisely, if ironically, to the treasury rally by promoting concern about the general economy, with consequent sell-off of high-risk assets and flight to safety (treasury bonds, downgrade notwithstanding, still being seen as the safest bet for a lot of people in case of general economic uncertainty)?
The media-capture API approach has stagnated. I think most of the energy and focus has shifted to WebRTC (http://webrtc.org).
Or a cheap Ethernet cable. Windows Shared Folders are more or less crossplatform nowadays.
Ask HN: Security best practices for e-banking?
Where should a non-tech-savvy businessperson turn to learn security best practices for e-banking? Is there a good set of online resources?

Businessweek's "Hackers Take $1 Billion a Year as Banks Blame Their Clients" brings home that people need to be better educated on risks and best practices, and that banks in general aren't going to be a good resource for them.

We've been discussing this at G+ ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/103209908345925536722/posts/Z4gbtk1vqby ) Suggestions?
Glad I misread you, awesome you could return the favor ;) - we're going for the misinterpretation championships here.

I'm not suggesting it's detrimental for a woman to be in a relationship. I'm suggesting it's easier to go ahead, follow your dreams, and take crazy risks when you're not in a relationship, independent of gender. Simply because less obligations mean failure is less of an issue.

Note: This is about _starting_ as an entrepreneur, not being one. Obviously, there are many who make both their business and their relationship work just fine. (And I have no doubt many manage to start a business while in a relationship, too. It's just a little bit scarier/harder)

Ultimately, as long as both you and your partner are good with it, do whatever works for you :)
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Hopefully I'll get some responses to this question.

What is happening to the money (cash) that investors are getting after selling off? Are sovereign bonds of other countries up? It isn't entirely clearly what triggered the selloff. If US debt. got downgraded (traditionally the safe harbor in rough markets), shouldn't money be flowing from Treasuries to stocks, causing a rally?

Ok, it was more than one question. :)
Yes, if the tanks are enemies. But what if there are two powers, each with tanks?

What he is suggesting is, if there are two rich people, both with enormous power, they will ally themselves with the poor to gain an advantage over the other.

These propositions of the rich getting robots and killing all the poor are so absurd and exaggerated.
The ipad disproves your claim about gestures. Gestures work just fine, as long as you do them on the screen itself and make them tightly correspond to real-world behavior. The usability problem occurs when the display and the touch interface are decoupled. The intuitive aspect of direct manipulation hinges on the manipulation actually being direct.

The trouble with mice is that they are a double proxy. You move the mouse in absolute terms, the mouse moves relative to a surface, and that relative movement is translated to the screen. The mind after a while abstracts away the mouse into a piece of your hand, so touchpads aren't really an improvement over mice, because you're just making relative movements on a proxied surface in both cases. In my experience the big usability issue with touchpads vs mice is that the area for relative movement is too small, requiring frequent repositioning. Apple gets it right by making the touchpad surface huge, so that you reposition your fingers less.

I expect that the current form factor is just an in-between until most computing devices look like ipads with external keyboards, with the mouse reserved for precision work (or perhaps we'll have dual finger/pen touchscreens).
Doesn't JSONLint do this? Or am I missing something?
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