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When your project is innovative and solves a problem in a difficult domain that you, hacker, are not familiar with (say, healthcare), meeting with domain experts is invaluable because it enables a bidirectional exchange of ideas.

Without these meetings, you find yourself so lost you can't even start prototyping. Good luck with that.

This kind of project would be classified as Inventions as opposed to Implementations in Zed Shaw's C2I2 Hypothesis, which says that you need Collaborators for Inventions, and Clients for Implementations, see here :
http://zedshaw.com/essays/c2i2_hypothesis.html).

I think the only reason GitHub does not need such meetings is that they are developers building solutions for developers. So think again before you start "despising" meetings.
I'm surprised that you're right that "neural nets" may refer to biological brains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network
Why? WYSIWYG works perfectly well in InDesign (which is absolutely awesome, by the way), why can it never work with HTML? I don’t really understand.

Current and past implementations are or have been bad, sure, but why can’t it work in principle?
Someone not looking after their own security by leaving logged in sessions where other people can access them is indeed their fault.

Come on. This is a personal responsibility issue and nothing else.
"The inputs to this ranking function explicitly do not include other users' behavior on the site"
Could the Google / Motorola deal lead to a phone free of conflict materials?
Well, at least they're using it. It hurts adoption if people perceive Microsoft to be tepid about WPF or Google with regards to Go. But Adobe is clearly dogfooding.
A) Yes, my FWIW was an edit.
B) I do not see how anything you have said here responded to any of my arguments. (edit: in specific, I don't even know what your one comment about finding bugs in the OS has anything to do with this conversation)
C) My friends who are developers on Android claim that supporting multiple devices is not actually a serious issue.

[edit] D) Further, I believe that a response like mine is the only serious response that can be given to someone (kogir) who actually just suggested, "with a straight face", that a full 10% of the people using the App Store should be /banned from leaving reviews/ because he doesn't want to deal with /fonts being changed/. Are you telling me here that you actually agree with him?
I was alluding to a popular notion of AI that: It isn't AI if it doesn't feel like a human to us. I agree there is valuable knowledge to be gained in brain simulation and DNA computing.

AI press coverage has a tendency to "humanize" all AI research. (So your neural network is on par with a rat brain? Can we add such chips to our brain and create androids?)

I understand why this happens -- to make it more accessible, get more PR and to get more research grants -- but I do think it is silly. It makes people ask "When will we have AI?" when AI is already here, but they don't accept it, because it lacks human emotions. By taking it "too far", some make human intelligence a prerequisite for AI, when true AI could be just as well alien. Some AI researchers have no qualms in playing along with this notion.
If Apple brings out an new device with different physical characteristics (Apple TV, iPad 3 w/ retina display), you'll have to port your apps to that device anyway. Using iPhone apps on an iPad (or non-retina apps on a retina display) sucks.

While you shouldn't ever make assumptions about CPU or memory specifics (which is why apple doesn't release that information, even to developers) you absolutely can make assumptions about screen size and aspect ratio. Sure, Apple changing the system font shouldn't cripple your app. But having to code for every possible hardware configuration? What is this, Android?
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Yes, baby steps. Reminds of the stories of people attempting to fly with bird-like wings. Eventually somebody came along and figured out the right way to fly and it was not with flapping wings. Same here, making a lot of attempts that may seem stupid or laughable or even impossible but eventually somebody will figure it out.
http://www.crowdcube.com/ looks interesting for the UK: "equity-based crowdfunding". However, it doesn't look like there is a great deal of activity.
"Meetings are toxic."

One of the strangest things about working at Apple is they have meeting ALL THE FUCKING TIME. You spend more time in meetings than doing anything else.

And now they're the highest valued company in the world, and 37signals is ahem not.
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Does the root of this stem not from a belief that what we do is in some way bad, but a feeling that we're capable of so much more if only we could better channel our abilities?

We all have moments where we think "right now I'm doing amazing work" which make us look at all the other moments - our normal working level - as in some way insufficient.

In reality it's probably not realistic to work at that level continually, but that doesn't mean that we don't aspire to it so instead of thinking "I work at a decent level normally with moments of greatness", instead we think "I'm great but spend a lot of time being mediocre".

And maybe more than that it's very possible the moments when we think we're doing amazing work might not actually be our finest moments, just the "neatest" ones. There are days when I burn through things on my to do list but I suspect some of the days that really move things forward are far bittier and less immediately satisfying. I can spend a day being pulled from pillar to post by clients and think I got nothing done but the reality is that on those days I might have made a couple of clients happy and unblocked a couple of things that were delaying projects.

The TL;DR version: I suspect we're bad at judging what our real standard is, both in terms of when we're actually doing great work and how often it's possible to do it.
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There is always a reason to not rewrite something once it is released and operational: there are almost certainly other things you can be doing that would provide higher value.

(Also, I am reasonably certain that the issues you are eluding to with Cydia not working correctly on iOS 4.0b* were, as usual, WebKit issues, which I specifically admitted in my post: and, in fact, during 4.x is when I came up with a much simpler way to handle that specific implementation detail. That said, looking through my git repository, the only changes I seem to have made for 4.0 seem to be to things that fundamentally are not public APIs: restarting SpringBoard being the major one.)
I would think that clicking on links that a person posts is a good signal and thus would increase your engagement number. Other signals that probably feed into this are pictures you look at, likes, comments, groups you are in common with, etc. i.e. anything that ties you to another person, though I bet they are all weighted differently.
Good article, except for this minor point:

> Certain kinds of human creativity and expertise cannot be reproduced by machines. […] [machine's] music can never be the Eroica or “This Land is Your Land,” because there is no algorithm with the creative and life experience of Beethoven or Woody Guthrie.

Of course, I agree with the practical point where no current machine can do human art. Because of that we can't currently automatically extract the semantics of an image, or even convert a post-script document into clean HTML. So, it doesn't affect the conclusion in the foreseeable future.

But one can't seriously believe there's no algorithm behind an artist's art without believing in some kind of ghost controlling her brain, and that ghost somehow doesn't run an algorithm. As far as I know, there is no such ghost. It very much looks like our cognition (including our art), is entirely the product of physical processes, even though it definitely doesn't feel like it.

Now, I reckon art is not just the product of some internal algorithm, running in isolation from the rest of the world. We're highly interactive beings, and our output mostly depend on our input. But there is some kind of algorithm which does all these interactions, though it is likely incredibly complex.

My point is, I wouldn't loose hope of automating something that currently, only humans can do. Take spam filters, for example. With very little knowledge, they can take out spam with stunning accuracy. But if no-one told me about Bayesian filters, I would likely try to make the computer parse the whole e-mail like a human, then give up, thinking that only humans can understand those e-mails well enough to filter them (note my mistaken assumption that the spam filter somehow must acquire some high-level understanding of the e-mail to do its job).
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Facebook once suggested I reconnect with my wife. I saw that as good news that we were interacting in the real world not on FB.
...and yet, people do this sort of thing constantly on every other development environment I have ever used, whether it be Windows, Unix/X, or Mac OS X, and this has not been a serious problem. If your application can't suddenly tolerate the screen being 20 pixels taller or shorter than it used to be, you are probably doing something wrong. (Yet, in fact, a lot of developers screw this up, and their applications don't even work on iOS when there is a double-height status bar.)
So they use tables. Big deal.

I don't get that CSS snobbery. Tables do work on even older browsers. That's something you want for a tool that generates code for people who don't want/can't put up with writing HTML themselves. For them the product has to work and look good in most of the browsers.
Looks great on iPad, well done.
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Fair enough. It was when Quakeworld was extremely popular, so a little more than ten years. ;)
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If checking the IP leads to a result, such as blocking the user, it could not be simulated with paper and pencil. e.g. Amazon's infamous one-click purchase patent could not be simulated with paper and pencil.

One nice quality of this test is it makes the patent less abstract, more concrete, and therefore less broadly applicable: one of the arguments for mathematical algorithms not be patentable is that they are too general, and a monopoly on them would block too much.
I don't think they're censoring it -- The HTML on this page makes heavy use of the TABLE and SPAN elements for formatting. That seems to be something that makes it difficult for Facebook's link-grabber to read pages. I've encountered the same problem posting links to other sites with idiosyncratic HTML.
I was looking into moving to Tallinn as an expat. This just sealed the deal. Any Estonian hackers on here?
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What is your problem exactly?
Do you have problems approaching strangers because you feel something inside is holding you back? Or you have this problem because you THINK you NEED to do some social techniques in order do it?

You answer determine the solution to your problem.
If there is something in you which holds you back, you can overcome that by a simple search on "Social Inner Game", there are plenty of free materials on the web which can be helpful... But if your problem is the second one (you think you need to do something...etc), then it's is even much simpler... Check the following book: http://www.amazon.com/Art-SpeedReading-People-Speak-Language...

If your situation differs from these, please reply.
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You mean things that are (eventually) html page generators?
In the US, is all interest deductible? And since your taxes are spread across federal/state/municipal, is it deductible from the tax basis (don't know what the exact term is - the amount your net taxes are calculated on) for all of them?
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That's commonly said but frankly I don't see why, when you invest in an (index) fund (as you should if you're not a 'professional'). It takes about as much work and intelligence to choose one or a few funds as it does to choose a mortgage and do total-cost-of-ownership vs rent calculations.
I'm tempted to move to IRC...does it persist messages? I assume so, based on the discussion above. I'm quite sure that when I've used IRC in the past I haven't been able to see what has occured after I've left a channel but I imagine if I run my own server there is a simple solution to this problem. Anyone care to share (though I'm Googling as we speak)?
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I agree. The Internet is one, so the market for the startups are too, but the problem here is not to be able to find appropriate environment such as investment, co-founders and enough attention from peoples that would matter the development.
Anyone got an authoratative link as opposed to a link to a reddit thread which links to an imgur.com screenshot of this supposed results?
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I'm not sure if it's just me, but there seem to have been a few very similar sites/ideas posted here over the last few days.

Well done for making it work in IE though =)
"I'm not sure I understand the prevailing view that renting is always better than buying."

I see no reason to believe that that's a prevailing view. It all depends on the region and economic circumstances.
> Europe's hottest startup capitals: Sweden

Come and visit the wonderful town of Sweden ...
And www.dealdash.com, which is listed under Helsinki, is located in California, USA. However they seem to have a Finnish developer (are you Juha on HN?).
It's quite cold in London at the moment (17°C).
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Likely because its a UK website - showing cities on mainland Europe.
There are about a zillion implementations of vanilla A* on the internet. What's particularly interesting about this one? Do you have some cool new heuristic function or some nice insight into how the search works? The as-is version is pretty crappy. I mean, I can't even see the nodes expanded!
It's hard (not impossible) to make it work in principle because a printing press doesn't need to infer meaning from the post script or whatever you provide it. A browser does need to, so you'd need to layer the extra semantics on top of your WYSIWYG editor.

Which means asking questions like "this is 36 pixels high: is it a heading,; or is this just a landing page with big text?" etc. So maybe I lack imagination, but I don't see it being that easy a problem to solve from a UI point of view.
Poorly researched filler piece. For example, the article on Barcelona failed to mention ANY of the truly interesting startups, like Privalia, ExperienceOn, Letsbonus, Groupalia, and all the companies seeded by Grupo Intercom.
That town has some really impressive parks!
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These articles are of very unequal depth. 2 pages for Paris, and only a list of startups for Amsterdam. Not even a mention of recentlylaunched new york times-featured appsterdam: http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2011/06/27/27ven...

Nice to read about less popular cities though (Tallinn, Helsinki).
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It's not CSS snobbery. It's HTML snobbery, which to some people still matters, for the usual accessibility reasons as well as wanting to write the correct code for the job.
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There is an entire book about this: Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status.

http://www.amazon.com/Choosing-Right-Pond-Behavior-Status/dp...

It's been a while since I read it, but it was quite interesting. The author presents an economic model to explain status-seeking behavior and how it affects, for example, wages. It presents a model why "super star" performers don't get paid what they're worth (He models it as a subsidy to those below them, who would leave for a different firm if they were at the bottom of the hierarchy).
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For the time being, your best bet is probably to rely on the handful of generic failover solution (keepalived, Linux-HA)...they are well documented and robust. You can connect to the slaves and issue a SLAVEOF command when your scripts pick a new master.

I know it isn't against the guidelines, but using HN to ask questions which are probably better suited on SO (or, in this case, the very lively redis IRC channel or google group) seems to be increasingly common. Also, doing a simple google search for "Redis automatic failover" returns a number of useful resources.
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Are those really issues for a static site?

For most people, Wikileaks is a static site. They are unable to interact with it at all, ergo it could just be a static site.

Static vs Dynamic is orthogonal. You can still run afoul of the rules with a static site
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I find your largely contextless restatement of the quote a bit odd, when the actual post is quoting that from somewhere else, and explaining why this is so (when out of context the quote seems to imply that this shouldn't be so).
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Some insightful discussion @ Berkeley TIER's mailing list

https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/pipermail/tier/2011-Augu...
So Carl Friedrich Gauss could have patented his FFT algorithm, since it would take 160 years for the next guys to come up with it on their own?
I'm guessing they added an affiliate tag to all the Amazon links so they could make some money from it, wonder how successful it has been. Is it a popular extension?
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The clip showing hunting pack behavior, http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=RjweUYtpNq4&t=3m17s, really makes them come alive, almost like they'll run off the page. Chilling. Reminds me of George Martin's "Sandkings" (don't go to Wikipedia, read the full story).
"Only" 5%? That's more than the average margin on owning real estate. Meaning, that 5% makes the difference between a profit and a loss on owning the building. 5% is a lot when you look at the cost of the capital that is required.

(as a side note, I'm hard pressed to believe that for 5% everything is included (taxes, fees, ...) and that they do everything for you for that money. I'd pay 9% here in Europe, including tax, and for that money they'd put ads in the papers/internet, show the building to tenants, check if payments are made and put a lawyer on it when they're not (but I'd still have to pay the lawyer) and take the phone when something needs fixing. I'd still have to find, send and pay a repairman myself).
As far as I can tell there is nothing particularly interesting about this implementation. It's cool because it lets you play with it and because the code is pretty short which makes it easy for anyone unfamiliar with the algorithm to grok how it works. It also has some nice documentation: http://www.matthewtrost.org/projects/astar/documentation.htm...

For the Python programmer here is a very short implementation of A* that someone on Stack Overflow posted: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4159331/python-speed-up-a...
To me the zoomable, unlimited surface part is what makes it super neat. I might actually use it if I had some way of typing text on there..

I suppose for a tablet it is awesome though.
> Here, the court repeated its stance that mere data gathering steps such as "obtaining information" cannot be sufficient to "make an otherwise nonstatutory claim statutory."

It's just poor drafting. If they'd said "do all this stuff to determine if the credit card is valid" and added "if is valid, then execute the internet transaction, otherwise deny it" as part of the claim, then it would not merely be providing information - and could not be done with paper and pencil alone. You need to make a change in the world, i.e. execute the transaction. Usually, a patent would have later "dependent" claims, that further restricted an initial overly broad claim, but apparently they didn't here.

I get the impression that the court is being a bit pedantic, as it's clear what was meant; however, it is true that pure information can be used in many ways, not necessarily restricted to execute/deny.
Just to be clear - I don't think people are especially worried about strangers seeing which profiles they've viewed (it would be quite unlikely it would be meaningful) - they are worried about the people they trust seeing which profiles they've viewed.

Facebook doesn't show which profiles you've viewed explicitly for a good reason - I think they were just hoping that this would be obfuscated enough not to get much notice.
That's /a/ point. Whenever people start harping on about Market Efficiency, you need to find out "why do you care?". The answer to "Are markets efficient? I have this hot stock tip I read on Tech Crunch" then the answer is yes, because other people have more time, money, expertise and - as you point out - computational power - as well things like preferential data access and physical proximity to the exchange.
Maybe it's different in your area, but most areas I have experience with, no utilities are included in the rent. Plus a lot depends on how the place is heated/insulated (or cooled/insulated).
The paper with the actual proof (making this a theorem and not just a conjecture or vague speculation) is here:

http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pd...

This is surprisingly readable, and the introduction is quite good. In addition, here is a blog post that talks about the terms, their meanings, various implications, and the proof:

http://danweinreb.org/blog/what-does-the-proof-of-the-cap-th...

Finally, despite the shaky start, this is also a good read:

http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/brewers-cap-theor...
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Were I to infer anything from that data, it would be that "mindshare" is not a significant metric. 95% market share, and near parity in "mindshare?" That smacks of irrelevancy to me.
People do it constantly on desktop operating systems because they have no choice. It is still resources spent and if the platform was more uniform, they could have made some assumptions and spent time making better features instead.
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With a private repo in GitHub, after adding a second user, can that second user just start using "Pull Requests", even if they just cloned the repo initially at the command line?
An error in the title but the article itself actually discusses Stockholm.
Very popular. It's got 422,340 users and 12,925 of 5 star ratings.

Here is the link to the extension:

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And apparently there is a corresponding Firefox addon as well, which has 166,107 users. So in total I presume there are over 1/2 million users.