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Love the concept and execution. Manually cross referencing "Then and Now" pictures from the Denver Library of Congress made history tangible and finally interesting for me.
Of course, European civilization once extended across Asia Minor all the way to Persia. The invasion of the Turkmen and other central Asian nomadic tribes changed that.
There’s something really fishy about this. Or, if there isn’t, I really want an explanation.
I jump between a few projects but my bigger problem is running out of money. Sometimes I have enough money saved that I can quit "real" work for a while and focus on projects, but usually I run out of money before I am anywhere near finished with any given project. Most areas I work in are also too obscure/risky/complex to obtain funding for.
Almost all of my work is either in C or python. When I do my embedded system development in C, I generally spend my day swearing at myself and cursing the world. When I do other components in python generally thing "wow. that was easy and fast. And it's so expressive. Wow! I'm in a great mood!". It makes perfect sense to me.
Ha. I just made a hack about this at PennApps - http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com
If you don't have this habit by the time you're a teenager, you're never going to get it.

Please, do your kids a favour: have them learn an instrument to an "expert" level by the time they're 13. Do not let them quit. If not an instrument, then something else.

If it's anything I see around me in my daily work, it's a bunch of people who never get shit done.
Which is what he speculated South Korea as having done, right?

The most probable situation here (if it actually occurred) is that South Korea owns a certificate authority that is accepted by browsers and did a MITM attack with their own google cert.
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I've seen similar suspicious patterns on Amazon and eLance.

I discovered what appeared to be suspicious clusters of Indian accounts in particular, on eLance, all with ridiculous project descriptions, that are then all seemingly awarded to other accounts within the same "circle", racking up huge US dollar fee amounts in project awards, very quickly, with lots of suspicious mutual account birth timestamps (where both the project awarder and the project winner both seem to join the site on the same day, award a project to the other very soon thereafter, etc.). Shame that people engage in practices like this. Adds a lot of noise, drowning out signal. I've pretty much given up on using any low-bar-to-participate crowdsourced opinion site, and eLance-like sites, due to this phenomenon.

I'm also reminded of a guy I once worked with, who never seemed to do anything or deliver anything real, and yet has something like 50+ recommendations on LinkedIn. A talker/political kind of guy -- a middle manager. Whereas I know another guy, same company, who was super productive, heads-down coder, effective, delivered, innovative, very smart, solved lots of very big and very real technical problems while at that company, and he had like 1 LinkedIn recommendation -- an engineer, of course. You just know the first guy was offering "scratch my back, I scratch yours" deals to his mutual recommender buddies (assuming all of them were even real people), whereas the second guy was quiet, non-political, non-slimy, honest and humble. Again, any sort of crowdsourced opinion or social network voting system can and WILL be gamed, driving the signal to noise ratio down.

Solving this problem in general, in my opinion, is/was right up there with solving the spam problem for email.
He's not asking for a citation; grandparent said there was another discussion on the subject so parent (and I) wanted to read that discussion.
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A music sharing box sounds great.

Congratulations on launching (even if it's a post to HN).
I haven't used either of those libraries, but have used proj which did an excellent job of coordinate projections:
http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/
I don't think you got much deeper in the long form.

From what I recall, these critiques of philosophy are well-known in philosophy, especially reactions to Aristotle. A inexperienced reader would get the impression that Aristotle and the mistakes he engendered went unchecked for a couple thousand years, until brought to bay by the sterling efforts of Bertrand Russell and Paul Graham.

From someone proposing a new approach to philosophy (!):

1. I would expect to see a little more on some of the less peculiar empiricists - Berkeley, in my dim memories, was the most obscure of that little grouping.

2. A less Cliff's Notes discussion of what's happened in analytic philosophy that strays beyond the brand names (Russell, Wittgenstein) wouldn't go astray either. Claiming it's all about 'language games' is a sophomoric 'out' to having to engage with any of the rest of analytic philosophy.
I wiped them all. Please let me know if you see more. Here's a good place to watch: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments
Sometimes you know you're getting a beatdown and your metrics reflect it. Your goal is to simply close the distance over time.

But one thing that happens is that if you decide a metric is important and make it a KPI, you are then trying to implement features based on their ability to "move the needle" on that KPI. So if you are effective at meeting goals, you tend to improve on that KPI (the one you are testing for improvement on) more than you do on some other metric that you are not measuring your performance against.

So yes, if different competitors are using different metrics, they're likely to each perform the best on their own metrics.
I agree, most startups do suck. That said, the article was very poorly written and the argument was without substance.
Oh, I agree their "watch the home team" model is one of the stupidest things, but I think they are looking ahead to the post-tv world.
As a parent, I know exactly how you feel ... when my kids were mature enough to have (parent monitored) accounts on the Internet, they too were less than the required 13 years of age. The COPPA law allows you as a parent to determine that for yourselves but rightfully doesn't try to force providers to do so (you can understand the logistics nightmare that would become).

So the solution to both the real names policy and the under 13 year-old policy is simple. Take matters into your own hands.

Buy a domain name and DNS service. Sign this service up for Google applications for domains and then give accounts to up to 25 kids if you wish. Note that you will be responsible for complying with the COPPA regulations ... not too hard if it's for your own kids but perhaps it wouldn't be wise to provide this service to other's kids.

At some point in the relatively near future, you can expect G+ will be enabled for applications for domains (gradually almost every Google service has) and I don't see how they can force these domains to use any more real names than those entered for the domain's users. By definition, these are the names the users are commonly known by. Whether a real name or an alias, their colleagues must know this to be a valid alias/nick since they're using it as an e-mail handle.

Good luck!
It will depend on how the particular store is set up. Wallet will certainly digitally keep track of all sales.
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Start a war?! I think you've got your history mixed up. Palestine was colonized by the British Empire and then given away to the Zionists. Since then Palestinians have had their homes and land brutally confiscated for the incoming Israeli settlers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917
Patents are not given as prizes for the act of invention -- they are given for prizes for the act of sharing your invention with the rest of the world.

Also, so long as you can prove prior art, the patent is worthless.
Then I hope you only use cash.
REST != HTTP. HTTP, which is the language of the web is just an example of a REST implementation. A lot of people get this wrong. This should say Restful for everything, not REST.

Also to be REST compliant you have to employ discoverability and hypermedia.

Read:
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
I'm willing to bet a lot of the Javascript obscenity is "F*ck browser X", or words to that effect.
I noticed Google Wallet tap and pay 'receivers' (registers?) at the Peet's Coffee on Howard and 1st St. in San Francisco last week.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-software/economic... - The economics of the Singularity. The piece is obviously heavily critiqued, and quite speculative in places. However, much like Kurzweil uses historical trends to paint the picture of technical growth, Robin Hanson has used historical economic and technology trends to predict future economic cycles. I think its an interesting point of view.
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There is also one in the parking garage at The Domain in Austin. First time I saw it, I was struck by how good an idea it was.
South Africa never got past its apartheid stage until a global boycotting movement forced it to. This isn't just a matter of "politics". This is everyone's responsibility, including scientists.
Can you give an example of something I wrote that you believe is false?
I know several. They're doing quite well. They sold stuff, hired people to build it, and in a some cases, raised money. It's really no different than it is for technical folks. It's trickier because development costs more, but it can be done.
Call the "Apple Developer Support team".
They've solved a couple of issues for me quickly, and with little hassle.
I'll email you the phone number. Not sure if it's publicly available or not... I only found it via emails with itunes connect support.
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i am very much like you :)

"learning" something, i'm finding, is very hard to do outside of a school setting, so i've been trying to think of why that is. what i've found is this: in school, you're given assignments, little (or sometimes not-so-little) programs to write that do something. of course, the assignments are designed to illustrate a point, something you've learned recently. but it can serve the same purpose in real life. think of something (doesn't have to be a novel idea), then try to build the functionality of it. it'll be frustrating working through finding bugs and learning how to do xyz, but you'll find that you've learned to use your tools, even if the project doesn't ultimately get finished.

good luck with RoR!
This bill sounds like it does some good things. What nasty surprises came with it?
It's interesting how a concise conclusion you disagree with is evidence of ignorance. I don't know how much you know about philosophy, but from what I picked up during my bachelor's, it turned out to be interesting but all in all not too important. The central problem is still there: anything that's rigorous enough that it might be true is narrowly scoped and doesn't come to a wide enough conclusion to be interesting, and anything that's especially vast in terms of implications is usually vague bullshit.
my thoughts, some of the examples are way more elegantly solved using markup than with complex CSS rules. That is not to say that you cannot do that with this library: just define a few extra classes and wrap the individual words, letters etc. in spans or something. I think they just went a little overboard with their examples.
Wouldn't this kind of thing be perfect for integrating Bitcoin payments into it? Or does it need Google's approval? I think Bitcoin would really take off, once we'd all have NFC phones and all the infrastructure in place.
I don't agree with your first statement in the slightest.

"If you don't have this habit by the time you're a teenager, you're never going to get it."

Habits are learned patterns habituated by positive or negative feedback cycles throughout life. Habits range from social skills (are you the social butterfly or the quiet kid who keeps to himself), to health (exercise a lot and eat well or lounge around watching tv and eating Doritos), to work ethics and more.

We are all, as individuals, the collection of habits that we have learned over the years. A frequent topic here on HN is how you can go about hacking yourself to change your habits. A popular one is to force yourself to talk to random different strangers every day in order to 1) break the habit of being shy, and 2) learn the skills necessary to make friends with people easily. For many people, this is successful.

Being a teenager is only the first small part of a person's life. We continue to grow and mature and have new experiences all throughout our life. Those are much more important than the awkward and often painful childhoods we all endure. Even when we're on our death beds, we still learn new things.

I myself was an introverted kid. As a teenager, I was an arrogant s.o.b that thought I was better than most people around me. When I was 17, during that summer I played baritone in a drum corps and had such a set of experiences that even then I could viscerally feel the change in my outlook on life and on others. Throughout my 20s I began to get more perspective on life and bad habits I had growing up melted away.

Now here I am in my early thirties (31 at the time of writing this), and I can feel my perspective on life changing again. I stopped getting angry about things a couple years ago. Literally when everything seems to be breaking and failing around me, I just find it funny and keep working through it. That happened again a few weeks ago. I'm at a point now where if I am getting depressed, I can rationally sense where my emotional state is heading and most of the time do things to bring myself out of it early.

I'm able to recognize my bad and good habits and I'm able to make conscious choices now to change what I want to change. Its not easy, but I'm able to do it.

So I hope that for everyone else that I'm not unique, and that your statement is untrue. Else its a sad life that human beings are meant to lead.
How do "cool points" work? Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to search for specific artists or tracks.

Otherwise, I like the idea and had some fun discovering new artists.
So there is some discussion in the other thread, but I'll add my own. You ask that philosophy be useful. Here then, is a useful question:

Suppose that my mother has Alzheimer's disease, and that I find the prospect of caring for her inconvenient, undesirable, and/or expensive. Do I have a responsibility to care for her anyway?

It is "useful" because it could potentially describe a real-life situation in which one might have to make a decision. Analyzing this quickly leads one to a general discussion of ethics.

As you point out, definitions are imprecise. What does it mean to say I have a "responsibility", or that I "ought" to do something? Logic and observation can get one to "If I do nothing, then my mother will suffer and/or die", but this is not the heart of the matter.

I think there is no hope of a "solution", in the same way, say, that Fermat's Last Theorem was proved. But does that mean that studying ethics, and what the usual lineup of dead white males had to say about it, isn't worthwhile?
The usual advice seems odd to me. There are two extremes: you can invent something technically trivial and take the market risk, or you can invent something that's technically challenging but with obvious marketability.
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Hey,
Me and my wife will be starting a startup in France, with a product called iCheckBank. Basically it is an application for mobile phones where users can view their bank accounts directly on their phone (Currently Android only). And we would want it for it to be as cool as Mint.com is in the US (Mint is US and Canada only).

We have only 2 bank accounts for now, the app is available here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pervychine.icheckbank
(HSBC France and La Banque Postal)

I'm not asking you to review this product or anything, I'm just asking for a little help voting for our app. Our school (a computer science school SUPINFO.com) is voting for the best project from our school. If we succeed we will get the money for our startup.

All I'm asking for is a like on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ICheckBank-Supinfo-Community-Awards/125327007566750
(You can remove it in a week, it is just for the votes)

Our school has several rounds of voting, and we have until the 24th to proove we can get the most likes. The next round will be a more interesting round where judges will decide the most interesting project, but I just didn't know where to ask for the facebook likes.

Anyways thanks for everyone who spends 30 secondes liking our page.
As a Singaporean who went through the whole system locally and feel a nice sense of pride when I see all these nice scores, I would like to point out that the usual flaw of statistics - they only tell the skin-deep side of the story.

As I see it, the end result of a one side fits all academic approach means people are going to get left behind just because they could not get the best out of an instructional model of learning. As a geek who create programs for a living, frankly, I see this as an extremely criminal waste of human resources.
No, even if one can easily prove prior art, the patent is worth some portion of the hundreds of thousands of dollars it would cost to do so in court.
Specialization is an adaptation that seems wasteful when it isn't needed but makes a huge increase to efficiency when it is.

Yes, architects and test designers can be a waste. But they can also act to make developer's lives easier.

Good architects can code, but usually act at a higher level - making sure different projects (a) know about each other, and (b) work together. That's important because teams tend to focus on their own success without always taking account of the bigger picture.
I don't swear in comments or commit messages, but I do often catch myself quietly muttering a string of obscenities while coding. At least I hope it's quiet.
Thanks for that. Possibly the most disturbing thing is that they go to the trouble of sending an email asking how your experience was but then clearly don't review or follow up on the response.
Read Rework. :-)
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Thanks for your brutal honesty.

It's difficult, but that's why its valuable. Build your character, it'll serve you well.

Overlap your skills when learning new stuff: Eg it seems you're great at photography, so make a simple rails photo slideshow.

Start small, and build. Don't bite off more than you can chew: Eg don't try to learn anything more than the absolute minimum between each time you ship.

Learn to SHIP. Eg build a small site or open source project, and ship it! This will keep you motivated.

Find your intrinsic motivation. For me, it was when i had an awful soul sucking job and just HAD to do something to improve my lot in life.

Find friends to walk the journey with and keep each other accountable. Eg i started a book club.
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Not directly related to Google Wallet, but have a read of this wrt to NFC payments: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20090016-92/visa-sets-deadl...

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Not a prize. More like a fair trade where government offers their powers of enforcement to guarantee your monopoly and you offer a detailed explanation of your invention so that everyone else can use it freely after the patent expires.
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tl;dr i'm a technical guy and what i do is the hardest thing there is so what you do is easy and hence not needed.

oh please. bus dev is hard. making sales is hard. figuring out why your cool technical hack is pointless and will make no money is hard. convincing your brilliant co-founder that a simple trivial feature is going to bring a smile to your customer's face is hard. bringing different _expert_ skillsets together so they complement each other is hard.

there are bad biz guys out there just the same as there are flub coders. note: i'm not justifying the 'i need a hacker' submissions - that's probably just an indicator that you're not dealing with the top 1%
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Uh... IE9 failed the SVG fonts parts of the test just like Gecko did, and for similar reasons.
By negative feedback do you mean people emailing you, or any automated metrics you're using? Are you guys doing some sort of A/B testing on this?

I find it terribly annoying when I open multiple tabs and one of them starts playing anything and I have to find which one is the culprit. And when this happens I usually leave the site immediately. IMO it would work better without the autoplay by default, allowing it to be turned on using a very visible play button at the right side of the list or something like that.

By the way, nice project, I love the idea. I once used a site called muxtape[1], and all I hope is that you guys don't have the same fate they had.

[1] http://muxtape.com/story
That sort of question is certainly important. I worry though that like most of ethics this is one of those cases where philosophers don't get any better answers than your grandmother.
Not only did they have the luxury, they took advantage of it. See http://news.softpedia.com/news/IE9-Platform-Preview-3-Scores... or http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/benchmarks/acid3/default.h...
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I suppose a satellite travelling at a very shallow angle would increase chances. Also, stuff like being able to eliminate locations such as antartica and the pacific, etc, reduces the amount of space that can be hit...
It's the omissions that are the problem, not errors. You have selectively ignored major areas of philosophy in order to make your ideas seem original and compelling.
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s/patent troll/small inventor/ and all your logic remains valid.

The only thing this significantly benefits is large companies' ability to kill off smaller competition.

Patents should be completely abolished as a relic from the age of steam. This is the 21st century.
Signatures are a joke, nobody checks them (I used to work in retail). And even if people did check them, they're trivial to forge (there's a copy of the signature on the card telling you what it's supposed to look like!)
Cc:to me it's super simple to email yourself notes from anywhere
That's one reason that I lie in wait for Refurb deals from buy.com or woot. Every so often, a $300 Quad core comes along : The lack of decision points is a huge win.

Upgrade something when you find the weaknesses. Or ditch it (pass it to a deserving relative) and move on.
How much does the Touch Foil cost? I'm seeing huge price ranges ($999-19999), I assume it varies based on size and multi vs single touch capability?

Has anybody on HN used this stuff?
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