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Astronomers have announced the discovery of 50 (yes, five-zero) exoplanets, the largest group of alien worlds announced at one time. Sixteen of these worlds are "super-Earths" -- exoplanets that possess masses larger than Earth, yet much lower than the gas giants.
It's valuable to be able to know how to approach problems from different angles and be able to work with different constraints. So why not both?
I wonder if there are any serious academic researchers studying it? There was an economist who did some extensive studies of the EverQuest economy around 2002. It was interesting--he could not get any journals to publish his work, but it was the top download at SSRN (and even now, it remains the #6 download of all time there).

Here's an article about that: http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/game_theories.ht...
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Let me get this straight. Hulu's breakthrough here is providing choice to the user? Online advertising has been out for over a decade, and the killer app here is enabled by giving the user an option of which commercial to suffer through? Do marketers never think about the user experience?
It's unclear if they do have non-competes. Non-competes make sense for developers at a startup stopping them working for a rival to that startup, as there's plenty of other firms that developers can work for.

But for tech journalists ? - if you stop them working for a tech news site they can't get another job. It's not as if they can become sports journalists or war correspondents, a large part of their value is in their specialism and contacts in that specialism. Hence a non-compete would probably be considered an unfair restraint of trade.
The last time I used ReactOS it would crash and burn after using it for about 2-5 minutes with their supplied VMware image. This is with only using the applications that were included with it, as well.
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They're not talking about Lisp in particular. They mean that programming languages are a formal way to express computation. The formality of the languages happens to make them suited for machine use.
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I had the opposite reaction.

>I’m convinced that if we had the idea for a daily deal aggregator back in 2007 or 2008 or even 2009, we wouldn’t have gotten traction because we would have messed it up.

>But, after two and half years of failing and learning, we knew exactly what to do

The idea didn't matter as much as the many other components.
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No, it's just the way that terminals work: "Tab" is transmitted as "Ctrl-I", and there's no way to encode "Ctrl" twice in the input stream.
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Yes, you are right and i was also thinking to put a domain name generator.

I am coding the generator now but I want it to be a useful tool for domain buyers. Most of the domain name generators in the market are not so useful. They are just adding some common words before/after the domain name and that's it. What I am trying to do is to put some logic in it.

Thanks for your feedback.
People at the top of the pyramid almost always suffer from groupthink more than anyone else, because they have the fewest people both able and willing to say no to them.
Be awesome and get people to talk about you. If you're solving a real problem for people then people will link to you and share content. I run a niche job board and I get a lot of link juice from our customers who love our service and have blogged linking us.
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You and I may think bringing race into the discussion of hiring practices is completely unnecessary, but the federal government doesn't. That's the point. Hiring practices that select for cognitive ability are restricted (through the threat of litigation) entirely because of the incidental racial impact of these practices. The court's criterion for disparate impact is not socioeconomic, it is racial. That is why I brought up race.

Also, I disagree with your general thesis that race is never a worthwhile topic for consideration in discussions such as this. The fact is that race is a real sociological phenomenon in and of itself, and not merely a proxy for socioeconomic markers. There are many instances where race actually would be worth bringing into a discussion, even if you feel this isn't one of them. What's more, I don't see how bringing up race "wrecks the discussion," except when it results in overly-PC people coming out of the woodwork to shout you down.
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Clockies is about having all future in one place. Discover & share interesting future happenings with friends to help them decide what to do.

Pls give me your thoughts and feedback about Clockies. We think that this app can change people in how they decide to do interesting thing with friends.

Clockies pitch:

https://clockies.viewscreencasts.com/7d531d265b004af6836a868747a57afc

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> It's striking how often programmers manage to hit all eight points by accident.

The paragraph following sounds plausible, but I've never heard of this resulting in a successful product for a company. The closest I can think of is gmail - but that was in google's officially sanctioned 20% time. Examples anyone?
Why more functionality? I mean, you said it yourself. It's a domain availability/whois/pagerank tool. It does what it does and it does it fast and clean. I personally like it how it is.
And you can stop spamming! Awesome!
HN would be better without Ad Hominem Abuse such as calling people “monkeys” or “pathetic reactionary losers.” I don’t normally respond AND downvote, but these words have earned an exception.
Hulu needs a new revenue, and subscription model. I canceled my paid subscription because I got tired of looking at ad's (constantly interrupting) in stream. What's the point of a paid subscription?

If I'm going to put myself through a scheduled annoyance I might as well go to cable/Dish. At least with them I'm not stuck with limited content.

Possible solution: They can just go Justin.tv on everyone and start encouraging (I mean discouraging :p) copyrighted material.
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Yes, that's true. For a lot more detail, and how this applies to product development, see http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/07/principles-of-p...
Bravo for this - what was the approach? Let's hear it!
1) Doesn't tell me anything what it does

2) Facebook login as the only choice? No thanks. Quit being lazy devs and implement your own user login. It's not that hard.
All natural languages have their share of irregularities; I don't think there would be much to choose from between them. See Steve Pinker's Words and Rules, then an introductory linguistics text on syntax to get a more systematic view. We never really notice the complexities of language until they are pointed out to us, because our minds are designed by evolution to handle (or generate, if you prefer) language. There are still many problems in formalizing even relatively straightforward syntax of everyday language.
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But won't using the canvas for this eliminate the compatability in older browsers? Which not caring for older browsers would help resolve a lot of the pains of working with the front end in browsers...
Here's the relevant part:

https://github.com/marcuswestin/WebViewJavascriptBridge/blob...
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That app would be really cool if you could visualize data that imports from other sources. Imagine documenting your facebook pictures instantly through time via the site's meta data and links to the pictures themselves, etc.

Well done. I noticed that the navigation gets borked when the screen gets really small. I think the choice here is to show a different navigation menu (rollover menus?).
I like the visual rhythm of days.

But just letting you know, background is way too busy :) Text is hardly readable in some parts. I have no idea what's going on and I'm a power-user who designed and used different types of UIs from MS-DOS shells to Kinect-based NUIs.

Text isn't selectable on the items in Safari which I think is a big deal. Hyperlinks on top right aren't underlined, I didn't even know they were hyperlinks before I hovered on them.

It's like a splash of colors of all sorts, different fonts and text in my face.
There's discussion of the Python version supported by AppEngine in there ... it's funny to think that once PyPy supports Python 3, and assuming the RPython interpreter implementing that support will still be compatible with Python 2.x, you might actually be able to use Python 3 on AppEngine by running PyPy's Python 3 interpreter against whatever Python 2.x AppEngine offers.

In fact, has anyone tried running PyPy's 2.7 interpreter on AppEngine's 2.5?

Not that I would expect such a setup to be production-ready, but just for the fun of it ...
This title is broken; hopefully someone can fix the blatant editorializing it does.

Further, in what world do compiler vendors get this stuff in that quickly? Do you, the poster and editorial title-modifier understand all the implications of these new changes and their interaction with existing code and existing libraries? If you do, you are likely in very small, expert company.
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Just watched their demo on TC disrupt and it looks wonderful. I've been really into the content scrubbing systems that have been coming out as of late. This reminded me a lot of my current favorite, Gimme Bar (http://www.gimmebar.com), but much smoother of an experience. Signed up for the beta. You should too.
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Yes, but it's purpose isn't to resize on the fly as you change your browser window. It's to have one set of HTML that reflows to your device correctly depending on the viewport width. I just checked it on an iPhone 4 and iPad (both portrait and landscape) in addition to a desktop, and it works astonishingly well across screens sized from 3.5" to 27".

Are the media queries a little laggy? Sure. I'll tolerate that over having to hunt down a stupid "view full version"/"view mobile version" link (and I'm sure some optimizations can be done).

I think this will set a new standard for the term "mobile-friendly"
I'm sure this article is only popular on HN because it continues the general theme of bitching about Java. The point it makes could be equally said about teaching programming using Ruby or Python but so stated, the article would not be linked here because Ruby is 'cool' and HN likes it.

There's no problem teaching programming with Java (or Ruby, or Pascal, or...) what's important is that people get exposure to a number of different paradigms. When I went through university, Java didn't exist, but we were taught in Pascal and Lisp. We had to learn C, C++ and Ada as well for other courses. I personally liked that as it provided exposure to procedural, functional and OO programming. C is also great for getting that low level view of the world, the lack of which I guess is what Joel was railing against. The thing is, it doesn't matter what your primary teaching language is, it just matters that you get exposed to a wide variety of development styles and levels of abstraction so you see how they differ. Good Software Engineers need to know what other tools are out there and when they might want to use them.
Just curious: how do you resize "traditional media"?
I would like to make a guess and say that the stagnancy of jQuery UI has a lot to do with jQuery Mobile (which if I'm not incorrect actually is a child-project of jQuery UI). I do however agree, jQuery UI is in many ways awesome, but needs to pick up speed.
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It's not the transition from one layout to another that is graceful. Under normal circumstances, you're not resizing your browser to use a site. What's graceful is the fact that the layout is well suited for each and every resolution you throw at it, whether you're on a full-screen desktop or a mobile phone.
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> Possible solution: They can just go Justin.tv on everyone and start encouraging (I mean discouraging :p) copyrighted material.

Just about everything (if not everything) on Hulu is copyrighted. There is no user generated content aside from comments and ratings.
I believe Ethan Marcotte was involved as well as one other group. He spoke almost entirely about the redesign at front end conference this year.
That is very nicely done. I am glad they didn't go for the temptation to put the display add in the laft column so that as the page shrinks it re-flows to putting only ads above the fold.
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"Note non-competes as the result of acquisitions are pretty much iron clad even in CA."

I think that only applies if the employee in question had ownership/investment in the acquired company. If they did not, then the non-compete is not valid (at least in CA, I have no idea about WA).
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We had a regular sign up form before. But we thought that: Why shall user's create an another social graph, when you have facebook? it takes maybe months even years to get your 100 friends on a new app. That's why we choose to have facebook. Though we will consider other login alternatives in the future. Right now only choice to login is with facebook.
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I looked at the --> documentation <-- and when you have a single page of "yo download, it's awesome" and then a page like this:

http://www.kendoui.com/documentation/javascript-dependencies...

And other pages that are just enumerations of things that are in the code, then you've just defined it, you haven't told me how to use it or why it works the way it does.

Instead, they'd need docs that lead the user through step-by-step breakdowns of where things are, why they are there, how to exactly build an app from nothing, and get it working. They've got none of that. Just a .zip with some crap in it and nothing that says what to do.

Then, your idea of "sample code" is a couple of blocks of js on an HTML page? Right, I need HTML, Js, server setups, everything needed to get it working. If I don't have that then you've skipped over a ton of shared knowledge I don't have and that you need to take out of your brain and lay down so I can follow along.

"Protest too much?" You're a dick. Seriously, I love you guys who come in talking all tough like you're so damn right and really you just pedantically split hairs then throw out ad hominem attacks while claiming you abhor them.

But, then again, like I give a fuck what you think. The people who will actually benefit from my comment will read it, and the guys like you will just go about your day writing down 5 paragraphs for your docs and wondering why people can't use your crap.
Yeah right, last thing they need is people inquiring/crowding into their livelihood. They didn't like me very much anyway.

I was a merc paid to fuck up their operation by enemies of one of their allies.
"... In all honesty, I probably would have given up earlier. The only reason why I didn’t was out of loyalty to my co-founder, Jim, who had also quit his finance job. He had passed up many amazing job opportunities to work alongside me and I wasn’t going to quit on him. ..."

Interesting observation. The advantage of having multiple founders is shown here where "accountability to comrades", "bonding", and "mutual surveillance" [0] means the founders stuck at the task long after a solo founder might quit in despair.

[0] David Grossman, P21, "Defeating the Enemy’s Will: The Psychological Foundations of Maneuver Warfare" ~ http://killology.com/defeating_the_enemys_will.pdf
Then maybe you should have made that clear in your original post, rather than claiming that expatriation was 'free,' as if there were no costs at all. If you read the IRS instructions a little more carefully (or peruse the more detailed treatment at http://www.irs.gov/publications/p519/ch04.html#en_US_publink...) you'll see that liquidation or exchange of any US assets, including property, were booked as gains prior to 2008.

For the majority of people (ie: not multi-millionaires) it has become easier and cheaper to take up citizenship elsewhere than it used to be. The worldwide taxation approach of the IRS is an anomaly, but a long-standing one rather than some recent innovation. You have yet to show that the increase in voluntary expatriation is correlated with high earnings, much less caused by them.
The salary is dependent, its in another post: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/team/2011/09/12/salary/
They should also change the name. It turns out that failpivot.com is available.
How was your approach with that? Can you elaborate.
What rubbish. Recursion does not require lambdas and is quite obviously a different concept entirely. Tail recursion is (a) only an optimisation feature and (b) absent is most programming languages anyway.

Pure FUD
I have to agree with Slater. Having only FB log-in might have it's advantage to limited content (why limit yourself?).

And to some degree it's better not to use FB login at all when you start out (again I'm not sure what your site does). But why depend on someone else to make or brake you? First build up a core user base. And think about the following:

Describe Key points of the site.
Will it be a community site?
Do you have a how it works page? Or a short Demo that outlines the site in a nutshell?

At the very least allow visitors to get a taste of the site is all about. Good luck, hope to hear more.
If Cython compiles to standard c modules, and pypy claims to support standard c modules in its latest release, doesn't pypy now support Cython? (In the same way that Cpython does?)
"Programs are pretty close to abstract maths"

For you and many people, yes. For me and many other people, no. I sometimes write math when I program, but more often, I manage. I assign roles and responsibilities. I orchestrate communications. I try to keep conflicts to a minimum. I often automate the way I think and I rarely think mathematically (that's how I wrote my Master's thesis and this is how I'm writing my Ph.D. thesis. I mean, the programs behind the theses).

"because the tools you use shape the way you think."

Yes... When you are starting to program or when you haven't been seriously exposed to other programming languages and paradigms, you are right. But I think I've been exposed to enough of these and made a conscious decision. For example, to me, prolog was immediately natural during my bachelor degree, but haskell felt more constrained.

Still, if I was primarily writing code in Lisp or haskell, I hope my pseudocode would be different. Otherwise, it would be quite a waste of time translating imperative programming to functional programming.
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But still there is work going on and for most part scientists adopt English for that purpose. Though it is most widely spoken language but it is also most varied and irregular language because of its loose grammar and style.
Stories like this convince me that many of the most sophisticated cases of tax evasion are actually the product of an OCD-like behavior.
I don't know about independent researchers but CCP, who run Eve, employ a full time economist who publishes quarterly reports on the state of the in-game economy.
That's cool. I still think it's lazy, as you can tie in FB integration at a later point.

And I still have no idea what your app does.
Well, you can fold a newspaper up so you're reading one part of it at a time, for example.
You can see a list of companies YC has funded at http://yclist.com

There's an awful lot of consumer facing web "product" companies (most of them clones like "Twitter for Teachers") and very few, if any all-purpose software/consulting companies. My only guess is they prefer companies that can be condensed into a laser-focused story in the form of a well-oiled slide-deck and elevator pitch for the YC Demo Day.

Meanwhile, software/consulting companies like Fog Creek or 37 Signals can do very well for themselves.
Well, elevating form over content is a hallmark of the superficial. Formalism dictates that the way something is said is more important than the meaning of the words.
Yes but their copyrights are shrinking by the day. Most of the good programs have already been taken off Hulu because Networks like Fox, CBS, HBO have realized they can stream the content themselves. What do they need Hulu for?
It could also benefit from better copy. "Everything from a timeline's colour scheme and date range to its background image and intro text can be changed in the Settings tab." -- a wall of badly-punctuated text, really unappealing.

Kudos for the app though, it does look nice. More auto-importing and some iPhone action please :)
I renew my subscription every now and again. It's a really interesting concept, but whenever I play it I find that I like the idea of the game far more then I like the game itself. Getting to the point of being able to play at this sort of level feels too much like a job to me, and I already have one of those.
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Or for people with high resolution monitors who dislike the fact that a lot of web pages have more white space on the sides than they do content in the middle when their browser is fullscreen or close to it.

Granted, I realize that making any specific column of text too wide hurts readability, but most sites could benefit from being more multi-column (size permitting) and getting some of the ads and other non-text elements out to the sides more.

Going to a website and seeing one fixed bit of content at 1024px or whatever in the middle is so very lame. I am glad to see some websites starting to move away from this, and now that working examples can be seen hopefully other sites will be shamed into following suit.
Thanks for the feedback. we had made a pitch video:

https://clockies.viewscreencasts.com/7d531d265b004af6836a868...
> "The app is free for now, while the founders consider monetization options involving freemium services, search offerings and mobile CDN models."

Yes, this always ends well. Every download Spool gets loses them money. For every download Instapaper gets, Marco makes money.

And yes, Spool may be more feature rich than Instapaper, but when is being "on steroids" a good thing?
The story that isn't. Where's the specification?
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/

This looks like a good start to get the basic idea with examples on this space.

Today is the first time i saw something like this and im really interested on learning it.