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Ah, well if it requires FB, that would explain it. I was behind a corporate firewall that blocks FB.
Berkshire owns its own jet; Buffet has written about how much he loves the thing and even wants to be buried in it.

(Edit: I forgot - he named it "The Indefensible".)
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Towards the end of his life, Alan Turing spent some time trying to explain Fibonacci phyllotaxis. http://user29459.vs.easily.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/...

I wonder if Aidan Dwyer is pleased by the thought that his scientific career is beginning where Turing’s left off. I would be, in his shoes.
Oof, you're right. These are better than cookies because you can set them for specific URLs. Correlating requests wouldn't be too hard, just look for consecutive requests from the same IP with the same referrer.
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Thanks for your suggestion. I will release it as a new extension if I have enough time.
They rely on dates - they have to since they need to work out if one date is after another.

Lexicographical do not work with inconsistent (but still valid) date formats: eg 9/08/2011 sorts after 10/08/2011 if sorting lexicographical.

In actual case, most server software probably relies on the date format being in W3C format. If the parsing fails (which it would in the case of 9/08/2011) then the server ignores the date instead of attempting a lexicographical sort.

(I've never written a web server, but have written both client and server side software that works like this.)
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True. What about: "Final step: ..." or "Confirm your subscription to receive your first issue"?

Wonder how many people are using web-based mail clients and whether that would impact a preference to reply or click?
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No sign of the English one, only the email so far.
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Fantastic - I am going to see how my daughter goes with this (8 years old) - previously has been python which was great - but she could do this on her own.
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I'm not sure I see the business opportunity here. For one, the Groupon business model has been universally panned here on HN. Furthermore, the grocery business is a notoriously low margin business (both for the stores and the brands). Even for the higher margin items in a grocery store, very few items are really unique. Most products in the grocery store compete either on branding or on price. Since group buying appeals to the price conscious consumers, the are unlikely to remain loyal when they have to buy your product at normal price.

Finally, coupons for items you buy in the grocery store are wide spread and been around for decades. One of the revolutions of Groupon was being a coupon distribution channel to get coupons to places you normally wouldn't.
To me, this decision looks a lot like Nokia getting in bed with MSFT: too hurried.
Why do they need to work out whether the date they get back is before or after the one on the server? If it changes at all, presumably the browser has the wrong version so they should send down a 200 response with the correct version. If all the server needs to do is check whether the date has changed, and all the major browsers just return back whatever they got sent, why bother with parsing dates at all?
Has anyone here used Autonomy? It seems to be used in call centres to detect nuances in a person's words. What other type of data mining does it do?
I believe that SELinux was developed in cooperation with federal agencies quite interested in security. While not flawless it's one of the best systems currently available. Claiming that any system that's not flawless is therefore not interesting is the classic security strawman.
Need more 13 year olds like that.
That's the future of education. Udemy is going to rock it.
Anyway, you can't beat SICP.
Yeah, worked very well. Delicious lunch and dinner every day.
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...along with plans to spin off its personal computer business.

Damn, until now I'd missed that this wasn't "only" about phones and pads; HP's planning to become a software-only company! Very saddening.
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This is surprising to me. I would expect that I would more easily mis-categorize such an email as spam (than the one without a smiley).
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This is generally considered the best summary of the topic and bcrypt is strongly encouraged, to say the least: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

I don't think the concern is so much hacking your login than it is what happens if someone grabs your user table.

That said, I suspect what you are proposing is stronger than average even among the HN crowd.
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everything you just listed doesn't make a successful company. Those are all restraints that you think are holding you back when in reality its just you.
dear HP, open source WebOS.

thanks.
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agreed. i posted it mainly to see how HN would react. I think he is "high off his own supply".
I'm not a fan of virtualization for apps that are maintained and should be able to coexist under one kernel, but I may reconsider since browser and plugin vendors are still not offering a permanent Chinese wall between my activities on separate sites.
sorry, but I don't know the hardware details.
It was a laptop with external display, multitouch was plugged in via USB and handled by a software called dreaMTouch.
No, poor mistranslation there.
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Friend of mine did this on his lunch break. He actually is moving out to SF from Alabama for a marketing job. He's already received over 10,000 email responses offering a wide variety of things over the past 24 hours.
This sounds reasonable, and I also think it is better for HP to just sell their hardware to enterprises and add software to create complete appliances, instead of competing with Apple in the consumer market. However, was this really the best exit he could get for Palm in the span of one year? Also, why did they buy Palm? To compete in the enterprise mobile market (which surely will be large) But then, why not sell the Touchpad to enterprises and integrate it with the software from the start? Could be an unbeatable combination. Well, let's see what happens in the next months. I know that some executives from SAP/SAP Business Objects followed him but I haven't seen any big announcement of software offerings.
wow people! slightly off topic but that's how you DELIVER information. no ads bullshit, straight, references...

now compare that to the first link we got.
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> Win 7 users: Try holding the combo Windows-key + Tab for a nice 3d carousel

It's interesting that you attribute that to Win7 when in fact it was introduced in Vista.
So perhaps this is a question that others have answered, but what springs to mind for me is: why? I get that trees that follow the Fibonacci sequence are more productive, but without an answer to why that is, it remains a bit of a kludge. I would love to see some explanation of why this configuration is optimal.
They are still holding on to their server business it seems. So they are doubling down on their enterprise solutions and services, not unlike IBM.
The upside would means they have less competition in the PC market.
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won't they still sell servers?
7-8 months is certainly exaggerating, but 5 months is still a pretty long time to have snow on the ground.

At least the snow is white for most of this time (rather than dirty/sooty brown/grey as in many other cities), and it's less windy and humid than I'm used to in the winter (so it doesn't feel as cold as the thermometer says).
If you think it is unlikely that you will leak your NoSQL database, a quick mental comparison for you: how many man-years have gone to hardening the protocols for access to your NoSQL database? How many have gone into hardening the protocols for, e.g., MySQL? How many MySQL dumps made it to the Internet last year?

Use bcrypt. It upper bounds the loss of your database at somewhere below "Most of my users get their email accounts and bank accounts compromised."
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Does simply seeing 82% vs. 50% enough? Shouldn't there be some significance measurements added to it? If you had only 6 people in this experiment maybe it is just a statistical error...
They didn't give up on WebOS per se, they are giving up on WebOS hardware as we know it. I believe they intend to continue using it on printers and are open to licensing deals.
This is true, I can't remember how many smart phones I went through from Nokia, HP, Sony, etc trying to find one that that was usable. All these companies were producing junk, in the end I gave up and went back to a dumb phone, until the iPhone...
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If the grand-parent wants to be central, try Vanalinn (the old town), Kesklinn (city centre), and Kadriorg.

Also remember that many buildings don't have elevators.
Siegler exemplifies the syndrome that nearly all the high profile tech journalists have sealed themselves into an Apple-centric tech-bubble in San Francisco / bay area. There was a TWiT episode a week or two ago where every single panelist confessed to exclusively using an iPhone and Mac, some having not touched a PC in years ... yet here they were trying to sound informative on Android and Windows, the actual dominant technologies in "reality". They've basically dealt themselves out of being able to be informed and balanced on tech topics by refusing to use anything not made by Apple and now don't even understand when people accuse them of being unbalanced.
So, will Facebook buy webOS from HP for its Facebook Phone?
The server needs to parse the date sent by the browser to compare it against the date the file was last modified (which is retrieved from the operating system, probably as UNIX time).
Did you realize that melling was being sarcastic?
On Aidan's own article[1], you can see that he's referenced work that's guided him in making this breakthrough. Hidden in the bibliography is a Dr Suess children's book!

Geisel, Theodor Seuss (Dr. Seuss). The Lorax. New York: Random House Publishers, 1971.

[1] http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/201...
Isn't this just obvious though?
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I'm not sure I follow, but Chrome does allow developers to request those privileges separately. This developer just requested both.
But they don't run on PyPy yet. Now that will be awesome!
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Even after today's surge (+75%), its market capitalization is $6.11B. Yesterday's market cap: $3.5B.

Why would HP pay 3X its market value?
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I learned more about Fibonacci and the golden ratio in nature and art through my high school Art History course than I ever did in a math course. Though I had played with fractals a little bit before that course so the fractal geometry of nature and Fibonacci-fractal relationships weren't a complete mystery to me. http://fractalfoundation.org/OFC/OFC-11-1.html
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The pictures aren't representative of Tallinn as a whole, certainly not the central parts, but it is probably fair to say that it is more run-down in parts than similar cities in wealthier countries. (Remember that Estonia isn't rich -- GDP per capita is one third that of Belgium, for example.) How much you see of this obviously depends on where you live and where you go.

Best single Tallinn resource is probably In Your Pocket: http://www.inyourpocket.com/estonia/tallinn

You can pick this up cheaply in the city, download the pdf from their site for free, or get their iPhone app (also free).

Also new and interesting-looking is http://www.likealocalguide.com/tallinn

There is no great definitive online expat forum.

Also: when looking up stuff online, learn to love Chrome's built-in translation functions, and remember that it (and Google Translate) unfortunately does a better job with Russian than it does Estonian.
wow..This is unbelievable. This clearly shows how much progress we are making in terms of the way we are getting educated. Thanks Stanford.
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Another alternative would be to mount the remote filesystem using SSHFS.
Ah, very good idea. It'll be simple to make, too, which is good.
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Good idea, when I made this I didn't think anyone would actually die, so the wording is a bit flippant. I'll change it to be more sensitive, thanks.
What helped me was creating good experiences in social settings. I am 200% more relaxed and social when I am a host, so you may try hosting friends and with a little wine play games (i.e, dictionary, etc.). Best wishes
Everyone always talks about the Fibonacci sequence w/r/t the golden ratio, but in nature it's usually a variant on a Lindenmayer system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
Please spell out the month name. In many countries dates are formatted as DD.MM.YYYY rather than MM/DD/YYYY. For example, a native German speaker will have a lot of trouble recognizing that date. Especially if it is something like 8/7/2011 (is that August 7 or July 8?)

If you write the date as "August 8, 2011" it should be trivial to parse for everyone. (Except for people using different calendars)
* Jython is a really nice alternative if you want to use Python-the-language in a Java environment. Its suboptimal speed and the fact that it's really easy to write Java code that can be used from Jython means that you'll probably use it more as a scripting language
* The relation between IronPython and .NET is probably very similar
* For CPython, people have always wrapped their favorite C library and started using it - with SWIG in the old times and nowadays with Cython, which is a compiler for a subset of Python extended with types. In fact, quite a lot of useful Python libraries use Cython (whether as a glue language or as an implementation language), and it's probably in production use at a lot of places.

One of the problems of PyPy is that, while targeting Python-the-language, it also gives up CPython compatibility by using their own PyPy VM (in the sense of, GC'd execution environment with a JIT that's not really compatible with other C/C++ code or even CPython). Because they're targeting their own execution environment, they cannot profit from either the plethora of C/C++ libraries that exist or even the very decent library support that exists on the JVM.

The PyPy people have recognized this and started to take care of the affair with a JNI-type version of CPython's ctypes library. The problem is that very few library wrappers (or even non-Python CPython extensions) are based on ctypes, so that it's not useful as a replacement for CPython for most of the people (especially those that need the speed improvements).

The reluctance of PyPy developers to start thinking about a solution for all the existing CPython extensions has severely limited the appeal for using PyPy in production use - having 10x gains for new code is not all that appealing once you realize that you need to rewrite the other couple thousand lines of (C++ or Cython) code and hope that you can optimize the PyPy code as well as you optimized the C++ or Cython code.

Having said that, I'm really excited by the idea of a Cython variant that can be used to wrap C/C++ code (or use Cython code) in PyPy's execution environment. (This is the GSoC project that was referred to earlier) Or even if I could use Cython to compile my C/C++ Python extensions for the JVM or .NET.
I disagree pretty strongly. All of the major game consoles are an IBM PowerPC CPU with nVidia/ATI graphics. Everything is off the shelf. The Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Playstation 3 are pretty much all based on those same designs (although the PS3's CPU has crazy after-market modifications which really didn't work out so well).

The same can be said about phones and portable video game systems. It's all ARM CPUs with Imagine GPUs. Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, webOS, Nintendo GBA/DS/3DS, Sony Vita all use the exact same chips from the same design firms.

The big hardware differentiator is what cost/performance balance you want to strike. Newer architectures with newer manufacturing processes cost more plain and simple. And there is a spectrum of other off the shelf components to round out the package.

There can be some play in getting more out of a design with engineering tricks or getting better components at the same cost with economies of scale. Or you can corner the market by buying out the entire manufacturing capacity of the best components to deny your competitors (or vice versa). But it's pretty much you get what you pay for.

Nintendo builds hardware two to three generations behind to save a lot on costs. Not because it doesn't know how to get something faster and better. The upcoming Wii U is basically an older PowerPC CPU with an older ATI GPU. If Nintendo wanted, it could create a crazy powerful console with a $1000 CPU and dual $600 GPUs that nobody would buy. All it needed to do was tell IBM and ATI what it wanted. It wasn't a matter of engineering that steered them away, but a matter of economics. Which if you remember right worked great in the short term for the Wii. But as everyone already knew wasn't a long term play. Hence the earlier-than-everyone-else release of the Wii U.
Are you going to email old subscribers (who didn't confirm) a reminder with the new subject line?
The first version didn't, it was just for fun. The second will include a paid account with more features, such as custom sending intervals, phone integration, etc.
Fine points. But even low margin businesses need marketing. In fact, I think you'll find these low margin businesses do quite a bit of marketing--and they blow a lot of their wad disseminating coupons through newspapers, a medium that has been in decline since 1987.
It's not clear what you are trying to say, but I think you at least should have changed the statistic on the same graph: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-as-monthly-201007-...
This is an absolutely fantastic idea and is really well executed.

What I find to be even greater is that as you run through the thread of comments, zds is responding to feedback and then going back to Codecademy.com to actually incorporate it on the fly.

It's 10 hours since this was first posted and I just read some comments on "you should be able to skip registering until later" and it's already available when you get to Lesson 3.

A great way to listen to and incorporate the right user feedback into your application quickly and effectively.

Really good stuff!
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Can you explain how it speeds up search dramatically on a 2D grid? The only calculation one needs to do is "x1-x2 + y1-y2".
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Thank you for the correction :-)

I'm not a believer but I read the Quran from time to time. Pretty potent stuff. The imagery is rich!

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I believe you actually submit assignments etc for this. It's not just a recording you passively watch.
The iPad and iPod were indeed more of a catch-up game for competitors. The iPhone on the other hand already had some established competition.
I'd be interested to see stats of how many people actually finish it. Seeing as its free its easy to say 'yeah ill do it' and then not find the time.
You don't program much in lisp, do you? :) Software can be adaptable and self-writing, too.
Problem with remote filesystems is that the local editor usually expects the operation to be fast and does the save synchronously.

So, if I save the file in editor, it takes a second or so to get it synced. I'm the type of person that hits save very often, sometimes unconsciously, so I wouldn't want the editor to freeze for a moment every time I do it.
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2807030740_25f3f2fa53.jp... This 'tree' to charge your phone was designed in 2008.
I wonder if it charges better than a flat design.

Search for "Solar Powered Bonsai Tree".
Read through quickly at first and got mislead by 'target' assuming that anything passed as a target will start spinning and tried to spin an image :), which of course is not the case. Nice effort though.
Careful. There's a wide range of activities you're not allowed to take part in on a holiday/tourist visa, and so you want to make very sure that there's no appearance that you did business in the US (such as work on a startup) while in the US as a tourist.

Meetings are ok, AFAIK, as long as they are not for productive work, with some further caveats. Not that I want to dissuade you from pitching, but be careful there's nothing there to give the wrong impressions if/when you do decide to apply for a H1B.0

Not a lawyer, but I did get extensive coaching from an expensive immigration lawyer a few years back on what I could do (and how to describe it to US immigrations) while in the US, as I was traveling over every 2 months for meetings while we applied for a H1B, because immigrations understandably started asking more pointed questions when they saw my passport was full of stamps from the same US airport (never had a problem and they were always courteous, just probing more about my reasons for coming).
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The panels on the tree are higher than those on the flat plane - you'd expect to get more light for longer from that alone.
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You've answered your own question, there.
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Why compare the designs, when you can combine them? I'm sure that the tree design can be improved a lot more, by just slightly turning the "leaves" so that they face the sunlight more directly.
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PDF is really a display format, whereas epub/mobi are more HTMLish in that they are not quite so specific in how they want things displayed, and thus can be flowed into different screen sizes pretty easily.
This is called Cross Origin Resource Sharing, and only works if the API is serving the appropriate headers. Unfortunately, very few public APIs have adopted CORS, so until then we're stuck with JSONP.