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I agree it would make more sense for the next generation of students to seriously consider alternatives to certain overpriced educational institutions.

On the other hand, with the printing press at maximum, now is a good time to have debt.
I'd say that's an assumption (or agreement) some of the time, but I'd wager just as soon that the "protection" offered is always post-hoc: someone gets busted and drops dime, getting them protection from prosecution in their instant case.
The best metaclass explanation I have read is "Metaclasses Demystified" (http://cleverdevil.org/computing/78/), which originally appeared in Python Magazine.
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We need to encourage entrepreneurs of all ages who want to start all types of businesses.

For example, a friend of ours started a business creating fantastic pastries and desserts for restaurants. Her company will never go public. But she employs 8 or 9 people who probably never would be hired by a tech startup.

A couple of the big obstacles to starting a business need to be addressed:

1. Healthcare - our friend wouldn't have started her business if she didn't have coverage through her husband's employer. She couldn't afford the financial risk.

2. Intellectual property laws are a mess. Everyone on HN already knows about the patent fiasco, but the continual and unjustified extension of copyright law also presents an obstacle for some endeavors.
I suppose in OSX passwords can be stored to the keychain which is encrypted, but really, how many people just allow their browser access to their keychain without ever prompting them after the first time ?

It's possible to simply "show password" for any of the stored sites using your browser's settings menu. At least for Chrome on Windows this is the case.
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Do it on your own watch, not mine.
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FYI, it pops up a warning about needing a Google API key.
original author: you should really click around on skytopia's site more, turns out he even explored the exponent as the third axis like you did! (about halfway down http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbrot.html )
I went to a liberal arts school where everyone was required to take a 5 credit freshman English course. I still remember "No BS" across the top of many papers during that course.
The cool (bluish) white tints of LEDs usually produce the most lumens. As you go to a neutral(5000k) or warm(around 2700k) white tint, the lumens output is lower. I assume they went with a cooler tint to get the most output.

LED production has improved a lot recently and now it's possible to select the exact color temperature of the LED you want to buy. Also, it's now possible to get the same output (800lumens) with only 1-2 LEDs and have a good color temperature without extra steps.
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To be honest, I don't like this setup with the tabs on the left side. It is not a good way to make efficient use of the the real estate on your screen. If you have opened only a few tabs there is so much more unused real estate below the tabs, which is just a waste of space IMO.
Agreed. He isn't saying something that isn't already present in firefox with a simple extension.
In some respects, it's overdue. The US is has the most debt in the world. The debt-to-GDP ratio is 100%. Spending exceeds income. Would you loan the US money?

Until the Dems and Reps stop trying to win elections and start governing, things will not improve.

We need to spend less and collect more taxes.

We also need to stop imagining that there's a 2-4 year fix. This is not an economic crisis. Several decades of poor leadership producing fiscally irresponsible legislation put us here. It's going to take 5-10 years to correct. Lots of Americans will have to learn to live with less.
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It would be interesting to see some additional data - for instance, the load & perceived render times for each browser under different operating systems - how is Safari on OS X vs Safari on Windows? Chrome & Firefox across Linux, Mac, and Windows?

I imagine that Safari is predominantly on OS X, and IE on Windows. Does that affect the load and render times? I guess since the two fastest (Firefox & Chrome) are also on all platforms, and probably more equally distributed, that would suggest that the OS isn't as important - but without more information, that is just a guess.
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You may be delighted to hear that there's a Linux version of fractint called xfractint.
The 150MB limitation is for the web app. The desktop application supports larger files (though I can't find how much larger on the site anywhere).
Doesn't this make resizing rows and columns horrible? Why not just pretend your grid-module is 1x1 and use flexible-box layout?
The issue isn't so much the color temperature; it's more about overall color rendering. Black-body radiation, like we get from the sun and incandescents, provides the best color rendering across the whole visible spectrum, assuming a color temp somewhere near the middle.

CFLs aren't too great at rendering, because their phosphors emit very spiky output.

LED phosphors are improving rapidly in this area.
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Many people don't want to give out another e-mail or another password to yet another site. Given the Gawker and other leaked account debacles, many people use the same login/authentication across web services. By using my Facebook login, I put more trust in Facebook securing my credentials vs. a startup I barely know anything about. Plus, it saves me tons of time.
Okay, let me preface the following question with the admission I'm a complete jerk.

Now that's out of the way, I'm wondering what makes me want to use Kicksend over Ge.tt or the half dozen other file transfer services? WTH makes you so special?

EDIT: Upvoting this comment will only encourage me. Stop it.
Muphry's law.
That would be Muphry's law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
Pinterest is probably my favorite web discovery for 2011. I can easily get lost in there for 15 minutes/day repining. I am sure some users spend one hour or more/day on the site.
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Yes.

1) Its some extra work for what is likely a tiny portion of their target user demographic (note: this isn't the demographic that would use a normal signup if it was an option as supposed to facebook connect, just the ones that won't use it at all if it isn't)

2) They get nice benefits of forcing people to use facebook auth, eg friend lists within the app. Turntable knows all of my friends who use the service, and can show me rooms that they are using. If there was an alternate non-facebook signon that I had used instead, this wouldn't work out

3) The signup is probably more frictionless for users, many of whom are fickle and might not sign up if it seems like a lot of work. I say probably because I don't have experience with tracking conversion rates or anything here-this is just a guess
Hey blackboxx - when you face the nightmare, it's no longer so scary! =P I'm lucky to live in San Francisco, where much more scandalous activity happens and the sight of a guy running in his boxer briefs is not a big deal.

If you want some motivation to run, try reading _Born to Run_ by Chris McDougall. I'm almost done. Every chapter just makes you want to leave the house and start running. It's great.
Perhaps someone will come out with a pianobar* equivalent for this.

* https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar
Always have... since the invention of controllable fire by nearly anatomically modern humans? I'm skeptical.

For the entire history of human evolution since the formation of the Earth, that color of light has meant it's almost, or just was, night, and was strictly transient. Just 400,000 years ago it also started meaning that it is night. And just in the last couple of hundred years, with industrialization, it's become the color that most of us see most of the time.

Now, I'm not saying that's necessarily bad— but you gotta wonder why.
Nice time and great job hitting your goal reidman! VFF and Runkeeper are two of the three things that have gotten me into running. The last being the need to push myself. Great stuff.
Interesting, and that's probably where I heard of it, through second-hand sources. I think it's very similar to (what I understand to be) a fundamental concept of meditation: that when a thought pops into your head, you acknowledge it, and put it aside. The notebook thing seems to be the same concept on a different level.
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"That said, I bet some Google engineers will be working on their email systems so that, in the future, it will correctly handle emails sent to legal"

Absolutely, I was thinking about this as I read the article. What you "want" is that the email not to exist until it is actually "sent" but you also want to protect against losing power etc etc. So perhaps a scheme where the work in progress is saved using an ephemeral key or something which doesn't level 'footprints' in the file system.

Sort of like making IM's off the record by default, people are much less cautious about IMs than emails.
Don't be silly. Everyone knows the only use of Opera is lifting their age-old features and advertising them as revolutionary.

- remembers 5.12
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Nah, it is neat and pretty - sort of like one of those novelty clocks that run backwards or have math functions instead of numbers. Nifty, and might be a cool conversation piece.

I'm just hoping that's what this is and that the creator wasn't seriously trying to create something that people would actually use.
I haven't used Rolling.fm yet but a few design elements stuck out immediately:

- The look and feel is really like Apple vs. Android with the avatars and overall aesthetic bearing resemblence to MSN Messenger.
- On Rolling.fm, the avatars face left and right whereas on Turntable, you see the back of the heads emulating the feel/atmosphere of going to a live show. This little detail made a big difference to me and gave me the impression that the Turntable folks have more of a focus on the music experience.

I think the Rolling.fm site looks more like an avatar chat site with neat music features. If someone took the same concept and instead streamed videos on Netflix, that would be super interesting too since it would be like entering a "matinee" type of show and people can room chat like on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Why would anyone invest time selling things to people who regularly steal things?

Seems like a safer bet to go after a demographic that you know typically pays for things.
Pretty slick interface. Definitely a low barrier to entry for a new user. Great job!

The dark grey top-nav is very Google 2011.
In the first case, you are doing less (communication) to go faster.

In the second case, you are doing less (computation) to go faster.

The less expensive operations you have to do (whatever they may be), the faster your program is. That has been true for the past 70 years, and will continue to be true as long as computing remains in the slightest bit recognizable to men of our field as it currently stands.
I think the design would benefit GREATLY from some whitespace, and using native fonts instead of cufon.

If you're interested in better web fonts, look at Google Web Fonts.
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"She couldn't afford the financial risk"

If you are under thirty and single, you can get health care for $200 or less per month, which is pretty affordable. There are also group plans for small business owners.
I (and others) have mentioned this in comments to Vic Guntotra, but what Hangouts really need is an "audience" feature. 10 people participating is great, but image the things you can do if you have 10 direct participants and hundreds of viewers via some sort of YouTube integration.

Now that I see this, I'd like you guys to imagine Hangouts with audiences and Google's payments system integrated. Experts (developers, chefs, tutors, whatevers) can charge small amounts for participants and free for viewers.

I think part of the reason geeks like me (and HN, I think) are excited about G+ is because it really does have a ton of potential. I'd love to see the above implemented.
By now, I think most consumers have learned that the shenanigans in the games industry aren't easily stopped merely by a change public opinion. Just look at how widespread DRM is these days, and how much worse it's getting for end-users.
I'm curious about how much of this could be caused by the confounding influence of real world Chrome users being more technically savvy and therefore more likely to have good broadband connections.
As per usual I guess - better user interface, better marketing, better affiliate programs, etc. Though it'd be nice to have a look at their YC application to know what they thought themselves :)
I'm going to continue on this since the ideas are coming non-stop:

- On Turntable.fm, they should make the Avatars and volume level respond to your rating of the songs. So let's say you think a song is awesome, your Avatar should move closer to the stage vs. if you don't like a song, you should move to the back of the room + the volume should get lower until the next song.

- Another pivot could be using music as a theme for an avatar based dating site. Music + Dating has always been a great pair together (think Say Anything or High Fidelity).
in that case, you might like outloud.fm. the design is barebones and utilitarian, both twitter and facebook logins are supported, and you can also play tracks from soundcloud.
full disclosure: i built it.
That's a bit harsh. I won't guess your own objections to what Smolin says, but for everyone else -- Smolin wrote "The Trouble with Physics" and has expressed some controversial views regarding string theory, and the anthropic principle, eg:

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin_susskind04/smolin_sus...
Hmm... kinda like shoutcast? :D
I'd love to try the Vibrams, but is so far as I know they don't come in size 13 :)
I'm going to look for the book at the library. If I can't find it there, I'll buy it. Thanks again Jason!
Ask HN: Advice on forum software
I am looking to create a niche community website (100 to 1000 users in the beginning) with a discussion forum. I had a look at some of the popular software (vBulletin/phpBB - also tried searching on forummatrix.org) but somehow I find most of them to be lacking in one way or the other. I hope HN community can help me if they have any personal experience with running forums.

Here are some of my thoughts on what I am looking for (in the order of preference).

1. Good/Modern UI - What I found most surprising in my search is that most of the available software have a UI that is practically the same and it looks like all of them are stuck with their default UI for the last 7-8 years (if you are a regular on vBulletin-powered forums you would know what I mean). It is possible that there may be some custom themes that provide a UI that look stylish in which case I would like to know about them too. The closest I could find to my taste was Ning but I had to rule out Ning for other reasons (see point 2).

2. Hosting - F/OSS is desirable since I would like to know what goes on inside but I am not particular.
However, I need to be able to host the site on hosting providers of my choice. This was the reason I ruled out Ning. Also, some time back I heard about Ning shutting down websites on flimsy grounds, so I prefer to have some measure of control.

3. Chat - I hope to have a lot of private messaging between users so an unobtrusive chat plugin would be desirable (like the Chat feature in Gmail). It should support group chat(multi-user).

4. Social networking - Profiles/friend-ing(for lack of a better word)/photos/likes etc. would be nice purely in the interest of building relationships between users but it is not a core feature. Voting on stories/topics ala HN is not necessary.

5. Tech support - I should be able to jump in and resolve most technical issues but I would rather focus on managing/growing the community, so I would like to see some decent support for troubleshooting issues.

Even if you do not know specifically about the software, I would appreciate if you can point me to some well-designed forum sites that you personally like.
You reckon? I think there is quite a large market of people who are 1) totally price insensitive up to say $100/yr and 2) could not give a shit about copyright, they just want to be able to share things they like with friends.

PS. Can I ask you to stop using country-specific slang like "a wee bit" on HN?
Interestingly enough, Chrome had this option in the developers page, but they removed it. I believe it was called horizontal side tabs.
I'm having difficulty formulating what is patentable about a website that allows users to create music playlists. What exactly is the invention?
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I think that many databases will have to update the values. And yeah, if someone has hardcoded UI values, they will have to change as well.
Exactly.
The title should be:
What’s the Fastest Web Browser in the “Real World?” Firefox.

But given the size of the images with the chrome logo its not a far fetch to figure out they're being paid by Google for this study. lol.
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He's saying Twitter and Facebook are becoming, for today, what email was 10 years ago. You may have seen email as "an unproductive service" back then, because why would you email when you could call and write letters?

Then sites started requiring emails to sign up - and you signed up anyway. Why wouldn't sites just let you register through snail mail? They're limiting their user base!

In all seriousness, Twitter and Facebook are trending, and you might as well adopt them. Not doing so would strike me as a bit of technological ignorance.
And how much faster will page load times be with thorough blocking of ads and the kind of third-party scripts needed to gather this data? I'd bet even a halfway-decent ad blocker will make far more difference than choice of browser.
Have something to say, first.

Endless blogs full of non-experts bloviating.

Every 23-year-old programmer feels compeled to give advice on programming. I've even seen plenty give advice on hiring, or running a business. Harmless, I suppose.

I don't care how you write as long as you have something to say. The world is the opposite of English class -- shorter, the better, like programming.
"The second metric, perceived render time (green), refers to the amount of time it takes for the visible portion of the page to load in the browser. Again, Chrome did well here (2.374 seconds), but in this case, Firefox 5 did better (2.18 seconds)."

I bet this gap gets larger the more tabs you add. Chrome starts choking after about 40-45 tabs... Firefox can handle 200 easy.

The problem with Firefox is that "tab groups" function is horribly broken(as in, should not have been included yet) and that Tree Style Tabs just encourages opening hundreds of tabs.
My understanding was controllable fire predated anatomically modern humans. I remember one theory that basically said using fire allowed modern humans to evolve with a larger brain because fire aided digestion.

PS: Seems to be up in the air: Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 0.2 to 1.7 million years ago (Mya).[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans Note: Homo erectus is fiarly diffrent from Homo sapiens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus
It's not creating a playlist. It's creating playlists in the context of social interactions with other (representations of) people, some of whom are also creating playlists, some of whom are giving you feedback on the playlist.

If the bar is set by Amazon's "buy stuff in one click because we remember how to sell stuff to you from the last time we sold stuff to you" patent, then this is in the same ballpark.
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Obviously Chrome is really the fastest. Firefox just seems the fastest ;-)
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