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But Apple from IV...

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/...

"Now he has attracted more than $5 billion (£3.4 billion) from Intel, Sony, Apple, Nokia and Microsoft to fund cutting edge research into green power and technologies for the developing world."

Should we start referring to it as Lodsys/Apple?
If you want to change the world, chances are you're going to be depressingly disappointed. I find it best to limit my definition of the "world" to save to: a family, a couple of friends, and hopefully, if I'm lucky: a team of employees that I can manage and work with to create something many people will want.
For now I like G+ because it's a much better Twitter: I can follow interesting people who write interesting posts, and have interesting discussions with comments. If this will work in the long run is to be seen.
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I still believe my system is better. Detailed description and source here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431480
Those statistics are enough to sample the entire population only if it is a fair sampling, but I think the point is that Alexa toolbar users are not a fair sampling of Internet users in general, and hence the claiming that 27% figure applies to all 'net users is inaccurate and misleading.
IPhone 5's screen size still lesser than 4-inches?
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16 + 16 = 32, you need to fit four more hours of work per day in there.
If you make it to page 5, there's a note that these coins might have been issued by the Mint, officially but not legally. There's a brief window of time after FDR's gold recall order that tellers at the Mint were trading gold coins for the recalled bullion. It is entirely conceivable that some 1933 double eagles might have been issued as change.
Except that Google would not allow very young kids into Google+, by banning their account permanently when they try to get in.
Disney is a huge megacorp. Bits of it are run by cool open source loving hackers, other bits are run by evil money-grubbing lawyers. I imagine that the different bits have very little to do with each other.
I'm thinking more and more that lean startup is overly conservative in what it's willing to build well.

If you are a business person who does not know how to program, it makes sense to be conservative on what you build, since programming resources are scarce and expensive. If you are a programmer, the only scarce resource is your time.
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Tim Cook, Apple CEO - Commencement Speech [2010]
Maybe. I think if it makes you feel good then the answer is yes. I don't think there is any value in doing something that causes you stress or anxiety.

Also, there are others in the equation. The successful person might have family (spouse, children, parents) that will suffer depending on how the person spends there time or their money).
So, if you're ignorant as to what the people in anon publicly claim their motives are, and listen to someone else's inaccurate description instead, this is totally ironic! Haha!

In other breaking news, all computer parts are manufactured by multinational corporations.
Andrew Gavin is a veritable fountain of interesting details and knowledge on the history of Game development and has allot of experience with the subject.
I vote this because i find it hard to locate reading material on the subject that i can find relative to my inquiries.
Proprioception: Making Sense of Barefoot Running [pdf]
That is a neat trick. Even though it's one more character, the expected way to do this would be: "dt("
Industry Associations Are Worth More Than a Link
Samsung Reportedly Warms Up To WebOS
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I don't see how this is much more secure than a reusable one-time pad. Which is not so secure.

In fact I'm a little weary of GRC since almost all of his posts have so many extreme claims such as "This “Off The Grid” technology is the only known system to provide
secure encryption using nothing but a specially designed piece of paper.", "create your own personal custom grid (which NO ONE ELSE will ever have)". All of this makes it look like a scam to me.
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The SWIG author in question, Dave Beazley, also gave a couple great talks on the Python GIL: http://www.dabeaz.com/GIL/
You could try and license your entire toolchain, sort of like Epic Games does with the Unreal Engine.
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ProGuard doesn't really solve the problem for Clojure though, as most of the Core library is necessary for core features of the language to function. Dropping 'eval' support for Android targeting Clojure apps might work, but it hasn't been done near as I can tell.
But are they any good? China's patent laws are worse than those of the US.
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The background information and analysis seemed so reasonable, then they threw that ribbon on there and it looks like a confusing mess.
If you still need an invite, your answer lies in that.
Show HN: Is My Train Delayed?
Refutations of Chomsky haven't really refuted a more general built-in-functionality argument, looked at on a wider plane than sentence parsing. Not many people in neuroscience seriously reject the idea in the bigger picture, e.g. the idea that there are parts of the brain hard-wired for vision processing, and that we seem to have evolved to be more adept at certain kinds of vision-processing tasks than others. It's even widely believed (though more controversially) that we have built-in face-recognition machinery, which operates differently from the general object-recognition machinery. Similarly, we seem to have wiring fairly specialized for tasks like "maintain balance" and "process vibrations in the ear".
Rather than cryptic criticism, can you explain why you think it's not worthy? If you think only "technical" or "business" , etc. stories should be in the front page, how about the interesting article on the gold dollar coins, the post about overlearning the game problem, or the article on explain right-left to aliens, all of them were on the front page and totally made my Monday morning.

You should understand that a story is on the front page because people upvote it and put it there. You can argue that the HN crowd is going down the drain, as others have done, of course.
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My thoughts are that when you have plenty of money, you don't worry about getting rid of things. If I find later that I really did need that thing, I can easily get another one. On the other hand, if money is tight, it's hard to get rid of anything that has any value at all. I might need it later, and not be able to purchase a replacement.
Facebook Is Getting Rid Of Deals
Invite only.

Until that changes, none of this is relevant.
ci( is another nifty trick that will do the same but will work anywhere between the two ('s not just at the beginning of globalConfig. See ":help text-objects" for more details on one of the more powerful feature of vim.
If you can make the assumption that alien creatures have a concept of three dimensions (and later in his article he flips the question around and asserts they do [since they sent us 3d blueprints]) then it's a relatively simple task.

The author said you can't draw pictures, use gestures or images to show the aliens, but that doesn't mean you can't have the aliens use their own imagery.

So, to explain left handedness:

Picture a 3D coordinate system. With X, Y, and Z axis.
Vector is represented by the notation of (X, Y, Z).
Draw a vector (0,0,1). This is the "Forward" vector.
Draw a vector (0,1,0). This is the "Up" vector.
Cross vector (0,0,1) with (0,1,0). The resultant vector (-1,0,0) is the "Left" vector.
For all points Y, and Z of -X (not including 0) lie to the "Left" of the plane ZY.

We don't need to convey a sense of forward and upwards as to how it relates to the alien beings--only how it relates to the coordinate system.
From what I read at the time, (january 2011) sandforce based SSDs got much better performance on mac systems. I think this was to do with OSX's lack of support for TRIM.

On the other hand, right after I upgraded my SSD, I went to ruby 1.9.2 and rails 3, which are much slower due in part to a bug that makes requiring files take forever.
I posted a part 2 -- except I actually made it a prequel -- but it's new nonetheless.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2937426
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IPhone 5 Rumor Claims Metal Back, No 4-inch Screen
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I wish they'd open source their Amiga animation tool, so somebody can port it to X11.

That shit was tight back in the day.
I don't understand why SSD are not deployed in EVERY RMDBS server right now. They benefits are truly out of this world.
IMHO, this redesign just adds visual noise. Compare the screenshots of the redesigned Windows 8 Explorer with Finder in OS X:

- Win 8: http://cl.ly/321a2D0b1M1G1v1o2r3F (from article)

- OS X: http://cl.ly/290D3q2Q06203b181C2b (random Google Images search)

I think Microsoft's ribbon approach is horrible for usability. It takes a long time to visually scan all those words/icons to figure out what I want. With OS X, the interface is much cleaner. There are only a few buttons and no extraneous visual noise. Finder stays out of your way and lets you get at your files.

I draw this comparison not to start a Mac vs. Windows flame war but to show how wrong-headed I think Microsoft's UI is.

Also, refresh accounts for > 6% of Explorer commands. Why don't they just make Explorer refresh automatically and get rid of the need for the command?

One thing I do like about the redesign is the prominence of the "copy path" button.
I am surprised to see the OCZ drives recommended so frequently in the article. So far I've owned 2 from crucial, 1 intel, and 1 from OCZ. The first SSD drive I purchased was a crucial, and it is still running like a champ 3 years later in a macbook pro. The OCZ drive failed within 90 days. This wouldn't be a big deal in and of itself, things break. However, their customer service is terrible. I got nothing but a 2 week long run around with them when I tried to RMA it.
LinkedIn's new mobile app considered wasteful
>>Randomization means that the last percent is just not worth chasing...

True, but only in the case of complete randomization. In the case of randomization kicking in only when the election is close, one side will be chasing the last percent to get to randomization and the other to avoid it. Same thing...
That's spectacular.

No wonder they don't want to defend it against Apple, aside from Apple's financial and legal might, they seem to have no idea what they might actually be defending against.

"Your license doesn't say that! At least we think it doesn't, can you just let us have a look at it to check?"
Being poor means that when you throw something out, you count the cost. It's more practical not to throw things out that you don't need right now, because if you have to buy it again, it'll be xyz dollars, and you don't want to spend xyz dollars again.
The defualt mapping of Y is arguably broken since it doesn't follow the normal vi conventions. I have these lines in my .vimrc to "fix" it:

"make shift Y behave like shift-[cd] (copy to end of line)
nnoremap Y y$
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To be fair, aren't those companies just victims of IV's patent shakedowns rather than IV co-conspirators?
Show HN: Songspin - StumbleUpon meets Hype Machine
Not to mention its proximity to asia.
Cisco Announces Acquisition of Versly
For what it's worth, I study all these articles and adapt them where I can to my married with 3 kids life. It's been challenging getting my wife to go along with it, but we're starting to see significant savings.

I don't really blog about my experiences or mention them to friends, I just silently do it and feel a little more of life's burdens lift. It's nice to work on getting rid of attachments (in the Buddhist sense).
A 10-Step Double-Dip Entrepreneur's Survival Guide
hehe.

1. I'm pretty sure he was suggesting, wake up right about the time the conversation starts.

2. work 20 hours.

3. get a good 8 hours sleep.

4. wake up, work till the end of the competition.

So, this is a brutal, impossible, long term kind of schedule to keep.

I think the grandparent's point was, you could schedule time before and after the event, to make the event itself bearable, perhaps even enjoyable. Code that's fun to write is just so effortless. 12 hours isn't a big deal, but 20 would be really pushing it for me.
Maybe we have diverging definitions of minimalism, but I think minimalistic design leads to a sterile feeling but that you can still have a warm, personalized space with remarkably less stuff than the norm.

For example my desk was once home to three computers and various pieces of computer hardware laying around. I don't need three computers, I really don't need a desktop computer at all anymore. Removing the desktops and the rat's nest of cabling makes things much easier to maintain and it looks much nicer. I also don't have to track what's going on with multiple computers anymore. No more sorting out cables, no more putting away bits and pieces, and the room looks cleaner now too.

Another, I like to cook so my kitchen tends to accumulate things either via stupid impulse buys, upgrades or gifts. I don't need a small toaster oven, I don't need a huge serving tray, I don't need four spatulas, three paring knives and two can openers. I have a wife and kid I feed -- we don't need a stack of 10 plates and 10 cups at hand (I can't even seat 10 people, let alone serve that many). Keeping the kitchen to a minimum means cleaning a few more things on demand while prepping and serving food but it reduces the cleaning, sorting and storage time requirements overall. This form of minimalism doesn't mean we can't have pictures on the wall or a vase of flowers on the table, but it's a huge win for reducing the total time spent in the kitchen every day.

For me, minimalism is about identifying my real requirements and removing the rest. Toys and old projects may be a requirement to keep the creative juices flowing, but I'd try to strike a balance between keeping stuff simply because there is sentiments attached and keeping stuff that really matters.
Confused about the conclusion versus the analysis: no one uses the command bar, ergo we should make this useless interface element bigger and more complex!

"Note that we haven’t finalized the exact number of commands in the ribbon yet. It will likely end up between 198 and 203 when we’re done."

203 buttons?!
been covered here several times, one of the most recent

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2405049
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Well, when you use Emacs, every key is a λ key...
> Nobody in neuroscience seriously rejects some variety of built-in functionality in the bigger picture

Absolutely correct, but I was using the more narrow interpretation of "human intelligence" as "traits that make us distinct from most other mammals". Most higher animals have specialized structures for vision processing and most of them are also good at "maintaining balance". What makes humans unique is the adaptability of our brains I was talking about and the ability to acquire different symbolic systems with relative ease (at least as young children).
Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?
Just do be clear: WWW.MATASANO.COM is a static brochure site and we don't do any HTTPS on it at all.
That would delete just the function name (`globalConfig.getParam`), not the argument list as well. `d%` would grab the function name _and_ its argument list.
We buy HP servers and laptops/desktops.

I agree with you. Many companies will want to have one relationship for servers and desktops just b/c it's much easier to manage.

However, besides Dell, where else can you get this?

So, while it might hurt them short term, long run, most American companies are going to get out of commodity PC's b/c of the low profit margin.
Looking at the history at the beginning of the article I noticed how much I miss the original File Manager. Maybe I should get a third-party Explorer replacement. However, I like the ribbon in general although I prefer using the command line or right-clicking.

Big plus for the "command-line here" addition. I've been using a registry mod to get that into my context menu but it's good to see it in the mainstream.
The copy path button is only necessary because Explorer hides the real path with the fake address bar they use now. I'd bet that mostly power users need to copy the path anyways, and they'll be able to figure out how to click on the address bar and Ctrl+C.
That's actually a big part of why I closed my Facebook account. They used to allow you to see the photo stream by default, which was fine. Then they took that away and it was endless noise without some mandatory clicking. It simply wasn't worth it for me, so I left. G+ is starting off on the same foot, but with the added hurt of nobody posting anything interesting to it; the options for me are really annoying noise, slightly less annoying noise or silence. Not exactly useful...
Yea. I love seeing new stuff.. But you have nothing to show.

I'm not going to sign up for a site just to see what it does. You really should show users more before forcing them to sign up. Some sites can get away with this, but a finance site cannot in my opinion.

Show me why it "doesn't suck" before you make me sign up and spend time getting it running. For all I know the site is awesome, but you haven't shown me and when it comes to my money I don't like having to discover the apps that I want to use to organize it. I want to know what it does before I start looking at it because for all I know it doesn't do something that absolutely need. Then you're wasting my time and that is money.

Sorry, more info on the front page like a tour is needed. Otherwise, you lost me as a potential customer.
If you think C programs aren't vulnerable to XSS-like attacks, you need to take a security course.
These lights and the story behind them are interesting, but weathering the flood you'll get if this makes it to the front page is the real story. http://www.rascalmicro.com claims that "The Rascal is powerful enough to handle real web traffic...", and HN has been known to take down much larger hardware.

I signed up for the mailing list last year, and I'm still waiting eagerly for launch! The last blog post on http://pingswept.org/ and https://twitter.com/#!/rascalmicro both look promising.
Why use URL shorteners on HN? I feel uneasy clicking on them. There's no real reason to use them.

>I think Microsoft's ribbon approach is horrible for usability. It takes a long time to visually scan all those words/icons to figure out what I want.

A huge percentage of people are repeat users of Explorer. While it may feel cluttered in the beginning, it will soon become second nature once people get used to it, and it's extremely friendly for newbies since it exposes functions instead of hiding it 3 levels deep in some menu. Are you a regular user of Office 2007+?

My concern is that it takes up valuable vertical space on the 16:9 monitors that we are getting these days, especially on netbooks. But you can minimize the ribbo and declutter it. See http://www.winsupersite.com/content/content/140353/win8_expl...
We're talking about "problems" in the context of "things that make cryptography hard". The other security flaws of C/C++ are orthogonal to this issue.

This isn't a value judgement on Javascript. I like Javascript. The hard fact of the matter is, not every good programming environment is going to be suitable for cryptography.
Sony Pictures Imageworks also does this: http://opensource.imageworks.com/

As has ILM: http://www.openexr.com/

Beyond benefiting from open source and wanting to give back, these studios use lots of software with different features and file formats to work on the same assets. It's really helpful when they can use the same techniques or files across multiple packages. They open source this tech in the hope that it will be adopted more broadly among the software packages they use. Hence Alembic, OpenEXR, etc.
I'm assuming that power users would just hide the ribbon. The flexibility of Windows Explorer is something that I miss on the Mac. Although the Finder is clean and simple, it does feel a bit underpowered. I ended up switching to PathFinder on the Mac.
In the context he's talking about, C programs aren't vulnerable to "XSS-like attacks"; C programs rarely deal with content-controlled code.
If my newish hp printer is anything to go on, their core competency is requiring me to agree to the printer's terms of service. Seems to happen every single time I want to do anything with the printer.

I've had good hp printers (laserjet3, original deskwriter), and one decent one (hp555), but this one is pretty crappy. The software isn't very good, the wifi on it sucks, the ink cartridges are always low. What's more, it came from the apple store, with a new macbook. It works better with my ubuntu boxes.
The breadcrumbs on the 'fake path' are extremely useful to jump to one of the parent folders, which is a frequent task, so I appreciate it.
There's already a bazillion C unit testing libraries, how is this any different?
Ah, thanks for the analysis.

You're absolutely right about its use for password generation & management. I suppose the scheme might still have other uses where the proverbial "off the grid" aspect indeed strengthens security? Are those relevant at all?
> From the title, I thought this was going to be a negative article. Instead, it says something which should be obvious: Self-help gurus are successful because they address current issues that people are having.

I'm not sure. The article reads to me as a lot of boring details of events, half-relevant biography, and situation interspersed with some mildly amusing snarky commentary.

I wonder what the effect of the piece would have been in the hands of a master like Tom Wolfe. I expect he would have had me rolling on the floor.
So Dr. Click is a mortal after all. He still rocks and his work and thoughts are hugely informative and influential. Kudos for the upfront self crit.
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I thought it was great that they discussed what user's actually do within Windows Explorer before they decided what to change with it. Too often I feel like changes are forced for change's sake, and it's great that they're open about their reasoning.
IV is like Microsoft's (and IBM's perhaps) frankenstein.
I agree that a person's surrounding clutter (as you put it) does give a sense of personality (I did a photo project on posessions).

However, I think you're missing a bigger picture. A minimalist's house speaks TONS about the personality of its owner. And there are no two minimalist houses alike. The differences are, shall we say, minimal, but they're there.

PG may have a point that since humans use spacial memory to organize things, a cluttered environment may put more stress on the mind than an austere one.
Interesting point. There are probably a lot of variables that would make something like this work or fail. Team size, company culture, the kind of work, and things like that.