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Essay Writing Guide
A lot of students, though being very good at their subject, have troubles writing up good essays. We were numerous times to provide some sort of essay writing guide so that everybody has some sort of checklist to follow when writing their essay.
Many / most browsers will let you open a link by highlighting it.

I can't think of any circumstances where "X dot Y" is appropriate. People do it sometimes for email obfuscation, as if spammers can't figure out how to do search and replace. Google has very little incentive to bothers and users often have even less. Worry about legitimate traffic first.
Think Instragram on this - insanely compelling viral aspect.
Alternative: first pipe through a CSV to strict TSV converter, such that "awk -F'\t'" is correct. I do this all the time, because awk is far superior to standalone perl/python scripts for quick queries, tests, and reporting.

(My converter script: https://github.com/brendano/tsvutils/blob/master/csv2tsv )
It was posted at least once, about a year and a half ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128711

Personally I don't mind reposts -- submitters usually have the best of intentions, and this story didn't get much play on HN the first time. But with older stories, a date in the title is a nice touch. I ended up reading this thinking it was an update on Bunnie's original post.
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Hi,I think u should leapfrog. U can study them to learn the extra values u need to add to yours.
Can't imagine Facebook would partner with a site. They'd probably try to buy it and then intrgrate it as a feature in Facebook itself.
I think the major point of the article was that jobs is getting something of a free pass amongst his billionaire peers. I think the last line sums it up pretty well:

"[O]ur intuitions about economic desert and fair distribution are...complicated."

Fair distribution is the real issue. There is a great quote from Warren Buffet on the matter:

"My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. Both my children and I won what I call the ovarian lottery. (For starters, the odds against my 1930 birth taking place in the U.S. were at least 30 to 1. My being male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced.) My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate’s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious." (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett)

Basically capitalism aims to drive capital (and thus wealth) towards those members of society who are the most productive. However capitalism has a very limited sense of productivity and thus it may discount some things that matter a lot in human society. So distortions will exist and one could reasonably assume that any one at steve jobs or warren buffets level is the lucky recipient of riding some kind of capitalistic distortion to the top. It's is up to society and culture to decide what is ultimately fair and as the OP said it's complicated...
For a local land line, "another provider" might not exist. In many cases, T has a monopoly on the last mile. This is why local phone service has historically been so strictly regulated. I'm surprised this is at all legal, given that history...but I suppose rules change, and T has a lot of politicians in their pocket.

The good news is that it will probably hurt T more than help in the long run. A lot of people who have held on to land lines may begin to think about whether the cost is worth it when the price goes up by 10%, or so. There are an awful lot of superior alternatives to land lines these days, except in the most rural of areas. Even my parents now use their cell phones more than their land line...they might even turn off the land line with this change, since they use their cell phones for long distance calls.
Microsoft quietly finding, reporting security holes in Apple, Google products
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is the most stable mobile phone OS
Interesting visual side-effect: watch the spiraling to completion, then flip back to HN and watch the text swirl.
Are we still experiencing technological progress?  Thiel says no.
Paper, Illustrator, HTML.
I just finished to watch ! So far the best introduction to Backbone I've see (I never used it, but seriously considering to). I'm not going to repeat the criticism posted in comment, I agree with most of them, and I look forward to new tutorials from you !
Why do any stockholders ever allow corporations to choose causes and give away their money? Does that have some kind of tax advantage over putting the money back in the hands of its owners and having them make the decision? Is it a PR thing?
Is Groupon next?
Historically, it would have been. Local phone service was strictly regulated for most of its existence. That's not the case so much these days, partly because so many alternatives exist. But, I'm confident there are still some rural areas where a land line from AT&T is the only reliable means of communication.

To be fair to T, those rural lines are the most expensive they maintain, and they no longer have as many sheep in major metropolitan areas to subsidize the rural phone users (who get those lines for the same price as the densely packed city folk who are super cheap to provide service to). So, I can imagine a valid argument for this additional fee.

But, given the level of evil of AT&T, and their historic abuse of monopoly powers (independent ISPs were destroyed by T a decade ago, for instance), and their apparent ability to get away with it right under the noses of regulators...well, I suspect this is not at all a response to any real cost change at T. I reckon it's just T being the same old T. Abuse of their monopoly, as far as the law allows (and then a little bit extra), is built right into their character.
It's the governments, generally, who grant them the monopoly in the first place.

Though if you look at the history of anti-trust and telcos in the US, it was the anti-competitive practices of AT&T (as early as 1917), which resulted in anti-trust actions being taken against them. At the time it was setting inter-connect fees to other carriers sufficiently high that the competitors were forced out of the market.

Now, why does this suddenly remind me of various "carriage fees" proposed by contemporary broadband providers....
Thanks, good catch
I get the feeling that any attempt to do a better job in this regard will really have to base its income on something other than advertising. The temptation is way to great and the rules that allow great targeting are not alternate name friendly.
The 7-year quest of an avid bicyclist to invent and market a new seat design
Gee, I hope some high school teachers take this into account - especially the ones that mean well. One of my favorite teachers in high school extensively used physics demonstrations. The AP test scores were pretty high though, so maybe his other excellence balanced that out?

Still, the confusion thing is an interesting statistic to read.
He meant caste.
I like the general look of the site, but it comes off as a bit sparse in places.

There's a bit of cognitive dissonance between Sam and Samantha. And who is Theodore Taylor?

The portfolio is clean, but the whitespace under the item header makes the page feel unbalanced. The ratio between the main area, the site header, and the portfolio selection bar makes the selection bar feel small.

On the blog, the cutoff for the preview text should be longer. The font use in the post title also hampers readability. I also would reduce the relative width of the navigation column and make the "Read More" target larger by using a button - which would be a good place to use the arrow font.

The suggestions about giving people (which people?) a reason to visit the site repeatedly are right on target. Without that, it's just an online portfolio and not wildly useful.
if you want to use/learn YUI (and other things JavaScript), consider watching the videos on YUI Theater: http://yuiblog.com/blog/category/yui-theater/
One of the really big issues with the JVM (outside of the "It's Java" or "Scary Oracle" stuff) is startup time. Many dynamic languages came into being to scratch an itch for scripting. In those cases, being able to start up quickly is important.

Clojure, Groovy, Scala, and others have shown ground-up dynamic languages on the JVM can be very good and very successful. But that doesn't mean there isn't value outside of the JVM, too.

Once you say "All languages must be on the JVM", you significantly limit innovation, since you are tied to what Oracle decides is worthwhile. For example, it probably makes sense for there to be no tail-call optimization in the JVM, but that is pretty important for a very large class of languages.
So whose bug was this? Did SQLite fail to round off a DECIMAL(n, 0) column, or did ActiveRecord make the scale value optional without guaranteeing that you always get zero (or some other reliable value) by default?
Ask HN: Anybody putting IP offshore to protect against patent issues?
It's a rite of passage for a tech startup to get sued. It means your doing something right.

However, I think you can hold your IP in an offshore company that would be significantly difficult for US jurisdiction to touch.

Is anybody using this strategy to avoid IP related litigation?

If so, what countries are you using to hold your IP?

Any specific precautions you are using to ensure the protections are enforceable?
YUI for everything I do, but then I've also contributed code to YUI.
I dislike the term "free speech" because it leads to misunderstandings as to what US (and other) law actually allows. The French, during their revolution, phrased it as "free communication of ideas and opinions"; the universal declaration of human rights says "freedom of opinion and expression". I believe these more accurately convey the idea, and make more clear why certain restrictions on speech are considered acceptable.

It's common to restrict threats and incitements to violence (ideas should be expressed peacefully; their expression should not make a person fear for their immediate safety) and statements that put people in imminent danger (yelling "fire" in a crowded theater). It's also common to restrict defamation and false advertizing (expressing ideas which are not true in order to harm another, either in reputation or in an economic transaction). Restrictions on the "time, place, and manner" of speech are also common -- while you're entitled to express your ideas, you are not entitled to shout them on a bullhorn at 3 AM on a residential street.
Also, other languages than english are pretty much non-existant.

The only ones I had any success with was "Ne me quitte pas" and "la vie en rose." Other Brel and Piaf songs didn't show up. Neither did any Serge Gainsbourg.
1. Gamble away financial stability

2. Profit!

3. Charge victims money to avoid losing all their money

4. Profit!

5. ???

6. Profit!
As mentioned in jwz's post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Papers makes a very interesting reference. You could kick around a very interesting model based on the method of publication. On the other hand, most people here really don't know who each other are except via the words written under a username.
This is the best web UI I've seen in a long time, both in terms of functionality and beauty. Good luck.
Don't imagine living in the Bay Area then. :)
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The developer's ;-)

SQLite doesn't have strict types (see http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html). MySQL does. It's not SQLite's fault or ActiveRecord's fault: it's one of the many issues you have to take into account when developing software that runs on two very different database systems.

Edit: ActiveRecord specifically notes this behavior in the documentation:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAd...

Please be aware of different RDBMS implementations behavior with :decimal columns:

The SQL standard says the default scale should be 0, :scale <= :precision, and makes no comments about the requirements of :precision.

MySQL: :precision [1..63], :scale [0..30]. Default is (10,0).

PostgreSQL: :precision [1..infinity], :scale [0..infinity]. No default.

SQLite2: Any :precision and :scale may be used. Internal storage as strings. No default.

SQLite3: No restrictions on :precision and :scale, but the maximum supported :precision is 16. No default.

Oracle: :precision [1..38], :scale [-84..127]. Default is (38,0).

DB2: :precision [1..63], :scale [0..62]. Default unknown.

Firebird: :precision [1..18], :scale [0..18]. Default (9,0). Internal types NUMERIC and DECIMAL have different storage rules, decimal being better.

FrontBase?: :precision [1..38], :scale [0..38]. Default (38,0). WARNING Max :precision/:scale for NUMERIC is 19, and DECIMAL is 38.

SqlServer?: :precision [1..38], :scale [0..38]. Default (38,0).

Sybase: :precision [1..38], :scale [0..38]. Default (38,0).

OpenBase?: Documentation unclear. Claims storage in double.
Where's the option for "I don't use a library?"
I doubt you are completely legal (I am not a lawyer anyway), as the contents are delivered via your own API: http://www.songrabbit.com/php/retrieve.php?i=0
+1 .. Reddit's ask science is my second favorite online forum after HN.
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I love what you're trying to do, but how will you monetize this? Will you pursue amazon based referrals for songs? (I'm guessing it won't add up unless you have scale) Or will you try to launch a "premium" service?
They partnered with those geolocation sites didn't they?
I pay $52 per month to a local climbing gym (BRC) in Boulder and get the same thing. I personally wouldn't pay $130 for a yoga membership, but can't fault someone for doing it if that is what keeps them active. So many people in the US have a problem staying active.
I don't think credentials are very meaningful. An alternative is to let students simply display all their work on the internet. Employers can check out their work to determine their eligibility for a job.
I like the publicly editable tagline, it seems like a fun idea. There was something about sexual relations with bunnies however when I visited the site. Maybe a keyword filter would help?
YouTube is good, but it isn't really designed for education. How can you give out assignments with YouTube? What about paying teachers? A YouTube-for-education would be explicitly designed to bring people together for learning purposes. And money would probably need to be involved... people should be paid to teach. After watching some free samples, students would probably be willing to pay to watch videos from some teachers, or to have their work critiqued by those teachers.
I used awk 20 years back. Then I moved on. My awk scripts still run, those in other languages don't (major version changes e.g.). Also, I began manipulating text using grep, cut, sed and sort, but found that these read through the file each time, becoming slow as data increases. Using awk you can search, filter and manipulate data in ONE iteration of the file making it very fast.
And so i once again brushed up on awk.

btw, i suggest using gawk since it has date functions.
Hehe -- 10 min by auto, could be 20 min by bike. I work for the govt too.
Well, it works for me (Arch64/OpenJDK), but then I haven't done much more than work partway through the scala tutorials.
AT&T is a really bad company and has been for a really long time. (Another example company with a similar record is Allstate Insurance.) At this point in time it is so well known and obvious, that anyone still using them is basically a masochist that likes to be abused. I don't feel anyone else should get involved in this situation at this point since it's obviously consensual and people certainly have many other carriers to choose from. People in every state in the US have access to a large number of telephone service companies. There is not just one. No one is being forced to use AT&T. It is a free choice to do so. If they were still a monopoly as Ma Bell then certainly I could get behind proposals for government intervention and regulation but it simply isn't needed here. Vote with your feet, or accept the dysfunctional relationship you have chosen to be in.
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Local salespeople on the ground?

Doesn't Groupon just have one giant call center in Chicago?
Lots of people also think that "vision and direction" is easy and anyone can be a CEO. But few people have legitimately good ideas that are connected to the ability of the organization to execute, the general competitive landscape, and the needs of the marketplace.

Thank you for pointing this out.

For startups, the truth is that it takes a lot more than vision to succeed. You need the ability to sell people (investors and employers) on something that doesn't exist yet, a certain tactical acumen, nerves of steel, and quite a bit of luck. You also need a deep technical knowledge because you can't evaluate your first technical hires unless you're technical yourself. This is a tough bill to fit, and vision alone is not enough.

Large-company vision is different, and the problem there is that the people who have the necessary skills essentially cannot rise to the top. They tend to be way too passionate to pay their dues, shut up when bad decisions are made, and plod along accruing influence at a pathetic, glacial pace rather than attempting to seize power (which doesn't work in a corporate context; you just get fired). Would Steve Jobs get to the top of any large corporation today? Fuck no, not a chance.

Generally, people who rise to the top of large companies are mediocre in terms of visionary ability but extremely reliable. They're not all political sociopaths or assholes; most are perfectly nice people. What they are is very good at performing well no matter what is going on, what kind of work they get, and how they feel about what is going on-- people whose performance has an abnormally low sensitivity to morale and who can therefore sustain middling to high performance, without faltering, over decades. People who have vision almost never meet that description, because vision comes with passion which is another word for getting pissed off when the wrong thing happens.
> Not everything I'd want to do would have an immediate commercial payoff, which would rule out investors. That, in turn, would rule out anyone else doing it, which is why having a wealthy backer is necessary.

If something is a good idea, you can probably persuade some other people to contribute to it. If you can't persuade anyone, it's probably not a good idea. Even if $500M wouldn't get the job done, it'd be enough to fund a prototype or demonstrator that could attract more funding.
I Googled another article that may be better...one that actually shows a picture of the product and the woman behind it (the original article was kind of lacking in those details):

http://www.behealthyspringfield.com/sections/abes-army/a-bic...
How is this HN-worthy?

As an Indian, I'm deeply interested in what's happening here right now, but I fail to see how this is useful in this forum.
That link is dynamic based on your current session, so it may work for you, but if someone hasn't searched for anything then they wont see anything on your link.
> Does 911 work different for cell phones?

Yes, it does. Calling 911 from a cell phone connects you to a big regional call center that gets your location and transfers you to your local one, whereas calling 911 from a land line connects you to your local emergency call center immediately.

Also, calling 911 from a land line gives the dispatcher your address. Cell phones will send along your location if they can get it, but GPS doesn't work too well indoors, and tower-based location can be off by tens or hundreds of meters.
This will be deployed post-hurricane
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I just found http://www.cloudsurfing.com/ which uses crowd sourcing to build a pretty good dataset of related companies, recommendations and metadata. In fact looks like their monetization strategy is to sell a premium service that lets you analyze this data faster/better.
That link (nosql) looks interesting. Also do look at crush-tools. You can even pivot data with it.

http://code.google.com/p/crush-tools/wiki/CrushTutorial
He mentions he's fed up with the financial cost and the need to activate Windows, and cites these as reasons to use linux. He then later suggests running Windows in a VM to deal with "dodgy programs". At least I'm not the only one that finds the irony here hilarious.
When showing results, how about showing a snippet of each song where the search terms appear, with the terms hilighted?

Also list the name of the song and the artist. For songs that have been performed by many artists, you could add "Also by AAA, BBB, and CCC."
Show HN: Cashmachine - cached APIs
Retrieves popular JSON/XML-based APIs and caches them. Requires memcached.

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Quickly tossed together Sinatra/Ruby/Memcached app to get around API rate limits and shitty availability.

Needs a lot of cleanup, optimization and API error support, but it's a start.
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I have been using Windows Phone 7 since July 2010 and can say without a doubt that Windows Phone 7 has been the most stable and reliable mobile phone operating system I have ever used

Out of the six modern smartphone operating systems, Android is clearly the least stable of them all.

Etc.

The only thing clear to me from this article is that this guy is not a very good journalist. Wild sweeping claims with no real work to back it up.
How about moving the logo, search box, and nav to the side when showing lyrics so that I don't have to scroll so far down below the fold to read what I searched for?

Snippets would be good too (as Google etc does) to confirm you have the right song
I believe it's a morality thing.
Yesterday I watched 9 cops race 5 cars and suvs around in a manner that I found absolutely and completely reckless. (They ran one guy off the road and almost caused another serious accident at an intersection) All to catch one guy, unarmed, shirtless and in filp-flops. This is the middle of a small town in the rural-est of rural America.

I wish I could send a message as one of the citizens "being protected". Sometimes its OK if the bad guy gets away. Please count the TCO of apprehending him, as it were.

Unfortunately, once those guys start "just doing their job", duck for cover. A subculture seems to have developed amongst law enforcement that adds "at all costs" to the end of every sentence like some sort of bad joke.
Nice work, I typed "pompatous" and the results were spot on. I wish some one would give your a good domain name... maybe jig.com.
Are the lyrics retrieved using client-side code?
We've experimented with a couple different interfaces once the lyrics are onscreen, but that sounds like it could work.

A couple people have suggested snippets, would you prefer the first lyrics of the song or somewhere in the middle?
Great start - glad someone finally did this. And it's good - I searched for "meet your downstairs" and the Amy Winehouse song I was looking for came up.

Maybe add a way for users to submit new lyrics? I don't know any of the legal implications.
Please give us some API access so we can start making some cool apps/plugins! :)
I first ran into this issue when I bought my PSP. The counterfeits work just fine but most of the time don't have the advertised storage and also sometimes don't format correctly.
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SPP users outraged at Google killing Slide without compensation
is it odd that im waiting for the day when i can get bionic arms and legs?