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Clicking through to the response from Wiley and Elsevier is interesting.

Wiley: "Naturally, we are concerned that posting the final versions of published articles in Open Access and institutional repositories lacking viable business models may have an adverse impact on the business of scholarly communication."

TL;DR: Universities should continue to pay us, because otherwise we won't make any money.
Personally, I'm not using the mouse, so any mouse moves are problematic. But I won't demand Google to change just for me, of course.
I want a program that will take a set of unit tests, and create a program that takes a piece of code and evolves it until all those tests pass.

And I want to be able to guide its evolution, prompt it to use certain technologies in certain places.
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I found it great, except part 2 of the tutorial is kinda missing.
I mainly went to the cache link. Getting easy access to the highlighted search terms was so useful.
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I keep on hearing the question: is the Fire an iPad killer? Perhaps it's just me, but the two devices seem to have very different purposes. The Fire may sell as well as an iPad, but that doesn't mean it's an iPad killer. Was the iPad a Kindle killer?
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That has to be related somehow to mutation testing. They used that at my engineering school to test our (Java-subset) compilers, along with a lot of unit (or not) tests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing
Let's not forget DuckDuckGo. I finally switched around when Google Instant came out, and never feel I'm missing anything.
Put the two together and its a decent argument for bring back displaying up votes on comments.

Influence isn't the same as that is for an entire conversation thread. What if an initial comment gets very few up votes but a response to it gets tons? they aren't ranked independently of one another.
And don't forget about the 40% the university skims off the top (aka "indirect costs").
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If the feature wasn't widely used I'm sure that's the reason for it's disappearance...Google has a tendency to make decisions by the numbers, if they don't see engagement with certain features, they get the axe rather quickly
+1 to you, but somebody needed to make the first move, and I think most professors at smaller universities would be happy to publish wherever professors at Princeton are publishing.
If clients are paying this price then it sounds like his pricing is correct.
It is http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#WTFPL . The WTFPL is from an ex-Debian project leader, also one of the original authors of VLC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hocevar
Pages that render from javascript or make extra requests to get the content were broken already. They fail REST and thus they're not easily cacheable. We shouldn't encourage them outside of those specific web apps for which linking is not a relevant operation.
I'm concerned that the Fire is getting a little too close to the iPad. It shouldn't be. That's a strategically scary place to go.

To your point, the Fire needs to be sufficiently different from the iPad. So different that consumers don't look at it and simply say "So...it's an iPad without native email?" Or some other rhetorical question to that effect. If people look at this device and think "iPad, but...", then the game's already lost.
Not really, croatian is my mother tongue, and that's a slavic language. But I admit, it would be a lot harder, I think, to keep this attitude if the language of our profession was a language more complicated than english. We can consider ourselves lucky in this regard.
This is a good idea, but I think even something much simpler along these lines would work.

If arXiv allowed for signed comments, then famous people could say as little as "This is an interesting paper, and everyone interested in X should read it", and that would do a lot for the reputations of unknown people who are doing good work.
I agree. I would gladly pay full price for TextMate 2, even although I paid for it the first time around. Of all the software I've bought over the years, TextMate is the one product that I use every day.

I'd started looking at Sublime Text 2 as a possible replacement, as it's got some really nice features. The TM2 announcement fills me with hope that I may not have to do that... so I'll hang in there a bit longer.
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IANAL, however:

Nope, insider trading is where you take advantage of non-public information. If the information was leaked, it would then be public.
If you're on Chrome, check out Google Quick Scroll for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/okanipcmceoeemlbjn...
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Google accessibility search doesn't violate Google's TOS, yet gives the cleanest possible interface:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000183394137052953072%3Azc1orsc...

But scrolling seems to be somewhat broken.

Removing the "In Cache" link probably makes the user interface less cluttered. I used it a lot, and had to go look for it yesterday. From the official support thread:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=...

But I don't have the user data that Google has. If less than 1% of the users account for the "in cache"-usage, the solution to require an extra click to get to it, is more sane, viewed in that light.

Shouldn't be too hard to make a browser plug-in / Greasemonkey script, so to add a link to:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.yc...

directly under search results.
I wonder whether they split test these types of things?

They probably do, but Google is unlikely to be immune to corporate pathologies, where for example it is politically impossible for some team to leave well enough alone. I suspect that could easily end up trumping split test results.
There's nothing preventing professors from posting papers to their website or the arXiv.

I imagine you could incorporate revisions if you liked. (And my "I imagine", I mean "I did this when I published papers in the past".) This is probably against the letter of the copyright agreement, but I don't give a damn, and AFAIK publishers don't dare go after people who do this.
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all of those seem to take operands. is it possible to have a single instruction with no operands? alternatively, is it proven impossible?

[edit: langton's ant suggests so - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langtons_ant]
The only things missing (for me) is a global replace function [1] and 2-pane diff [2]. Hopefully they'll get implemented if they get enough votes. That said, I now use ST2 as my main editor and think it's the best software purchase I've made in years.

[1] http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/21604-search-replace-a...

[2] http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/19683-side-by-side-com...
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Not bad but I would have liked to have seen a formal grammar for the syntax structure, especially since it is so different from Java, C# and C++ which most developers are familiar with. It was especially difficult to understand the syntax around keyword-based input arguments for methods. I only understood it on my second reading and only then because I was already familiar with the concept from LISP. There were also no examples or even mention of flow control statements. That seems like a glaring omission.

Perhaps most importantly, the tutorial should have mentioned that objective-c is a superset of c. That alone would have answered most of the questions around flow control statements since those, presumably, use the same syntax as c. As it stands, there's barely enough in this tutorial to do basic scripting with objective-c.
When Google released Instant Preview they claimed it increases click through rates to a website. This makes me think a good number of customers do want it.

Edit: here is the announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/beyond-instant-result...

"In our testing, we’ve found that people who use Instant Previews are about 5% more likely to be satisfied with the results they click. "
They already tried that - it's Google Docs. It's been only moderately successful, so to boost adoption they're going to hook up a Dropbox interface to it and pick up all the Dropbox users that also have Google accounts.
I really like this editor and it's began to replace textmate on my Macs. I really miss the ability to create plugins in Ruby as it's my main programming language and I don't want to learn Python. I'll buy a license as soon as the final version is released.
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http://www.google.com/xhtml is a simple, less-cruft version. Unfortunately it doesn't have cache links.
I always assumed they keep this kind of data in RAM only </sarcasm>
If they have a decent business plan, some well thought out contingencies, and the ability/willingness to compete, they'll be fine for a while yet.

They have specific brand momentum (where Google's momentum is not specific to the product) which counts for a lot when dealing with the general public.

I wouldn't worry like hell. Though I would worry a healthy amount: I'd keeping a very close eye on how this pans out, and would re-double efforts to make sure I didn't fall behind on product development, quality and support.
Also, DuckDuckGo renders better in elinks (Google has a lot of header junk you have to scroll past).
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I think it's absolutely fine to tell them you develop using the latest standards and you charge more when you have to develop for expired or non standards.
Flagging is not for disagreement, it's for spam, off-topic posts, and link-jacking. You flagged this article because HN doesn't have a down vote for articles, but what you are really doing is messing up the spam filters by training them that words like "Turing" are associated with articles that may get flagged.

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Another thing that has been annoying me lately is that it seems like like I have to add a + in front of every word or Google might decide without any indication that it will completely ignore it.
yes yes, good UI design helps. I work in an industry where a huge majority of our traffic comes from people typing our domain name into google and clicking the top link. That's not a UI problem, it's a problem with users not being comfortable with computers and technology yet. It's something that will take a generation to fix, not something which can be fixed at our end. Sometimes, it's simply the case that the user is dumb.

* any opinions expressed in this post are not representative of my employer's position etc etc.
I believe they do a tonne of testing, this video from Google is a great illustration of their process:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5RZOU6vK4Q
Aren't Macs "PCs, but without a replaceable battery"? They still seem to sell pretty well.
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I think they're trying to make their interface look exactly like Bing so the only way Microsoft can compete is by having better search results.

You guys at HN probably don't check out Bing very much, but many of the UI changes in Google were in Bing first... hover over a search result to show more info on the side, image search with just images (details when you hover), infinite scroll on image search, background image on main search page, etc.
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There are good lists and methods from Edward De Bono (i.e: Lateral Thinking), Genrich Altshuller (TRIZ).
For a good anthology on thinking skills instruction you can look at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED306559.pdf

But it's important to note that those are tools and ideas production can't be generalized in a methodic way, similar discussions on the scientific method. Ironically the source of science can be unscientific sources as beliefs, religion, magic thinking, myths, random.

If it helps, I summarized a list of all hacker news articles with ideas in the title (using hnsearch api, sample code included in the main article). These are mainly articles about ideas vs execution, etc but can help: http://blog.databigbang.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Hacke...
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Well. You are wrong:

Maemo (Nokia) -> MeeGo (Intel + Nokia) -> Tizen (Intel + Samsung)

Nokia N9 - technically is Maemo still or not complete MeeGo. I guess we lack Nokia's point on Tizen. As well Nokia was more worried shipping Nokia N9 during those days (shipping started yesterday).

Here is explanation that Harmattan is Maemo 6: http://wiki.maemo.org/What_can_we_realistically_expect#I_am_...
I just noticed it yesterday (or maybe the day before).

It is really a bummer when you are used to going to a website to use their feature and the feature isn't there anymore.
I still never figured out what the colors even meant.
Previously visited links show up as the default purple for me in Chrome. Maybe it's due to a particular plugin you have installed?
Yes it does. Click options, a little dropdown appears with "Cached, Similar and Mobile formatted"
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I thought I was going crazy when I realized the cache links were gone... good to know I wasn't the only one and that they're still there, though hidden (I never click on the preview arrows).
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People seem to have an obsession with "iPad killers" and "iPhone killers." I remember advertisements for the Samsung Instinct tried positioning it as an iPhone killer. Boy were they wrong.

The only thing that could kill either of them at this point is Apple screwing up big time. Even then, they would be slow to die. Look at how many times Windows has endured through a major flop of a release.

My point is this: unless Amazon is really stupid (which they've shown they are anything but), then they probably are not attempting to release it or promote it as an iPad killer. It's other people that try to set it up that way. My assumption is that they are going after a section of the market that loves the idea of the Kindle, but wants more from it.
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> For those of you who haven't heard of code golf, you should check out http://140byt.es/

The Code Golf SE site is nice too: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
Geez. You'd think that the letter N, being at the very center of both GNU and Linux, would warrant a space on a Linux user's keyboard.
Seriously contemplating subcontracting my next audit assignment to the authors…

They must be either students or otherwise in the industry (I say they; could be an individual.)
I feel like I'm missing relevant and useful results a thousand times a day. More and more, DDG is just a !gateway to google.
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Actually I'm a little surprised there doesn't seem to be any keyboard shortcuts for invoking the preview.
That's an interesting point. I shared a bit of the sentiment about networking. I thought it could have been facilitated better. For example, nametags already were color coded, but nobody ever said what the colors meant. I figured out YC orange and that's it. I can't blame the guy for wanting to know why he was there to begin with. It's a night with YC people and that description alone probably would fill up the place every time; however, defining it a bit more wouldn't hurt - is this an event to learn about startups? for founders who are considering applying to YC? something.
Since webOS is 90% of the way there, and is a joy to use, and is being abandoned, it's an ideal candidate to be open sourced. Please HP.
From GTK, to QT, to HTML5. I'm noticing a trend here- spend several years developing a platform, and once it is starting to show some promise switch toolkits and restart from scratch!
Someone else mentioned resume that I met there, but I don't recall seeing that. I definitely didn't submit a resume. Was this for all applicants?
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With just one license I can run Sublime 1 or 2 beta in my Mac Book my Linux laptop at home and a windows desktop. Already bought a license.
I'm new to Mac and want to try Textmate but the multiplatform feature of Sublime is a plus.
In the other side lot of awesome hackers are rubyists and they dont feel very comfortable writing pligins on python.
This may be in part due to the prices of private jets going through the floor and owners are unable to continue trading up or selling them. I know someone with a Citation II that went from 3 million to less than 1 million in just two years. Jets don't typically drop that much that quickly. I imagine that the owners may want to begin chartering them to help pay for the dead weight?
No, I tested in three browsers[1] prior to writing my comment, just to avoid getting caught in something like what you suggest. :) The behaviour seems consistent across all three, independent of whether I'm logged into my Google account or not.

[1] Firefox, Chrome and IE.
That's entirely the point. Tizen can't entice developers to choose their platform, so they aren't even going to try. They're just going to make the best HTML5-backed phone they can. Hopefully.
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Open source, yes. It was a terminal (MacTerm), it happened to be used by a hiring manager at a company.

I don't know that any employers ever looked at the source code. But publishing the source probably helps because they can see what your programming is like right from the start.
I think the difference separating the two will be price. I think the customer will understand that if you're paying only $250-300 you're going to get a lot less features than the iPad. I could also see the iPad 2 getting a price reduction eventually.

The Fire (lousy name) strikes me as the first true media tablet. I don't think Apple views the iPad as just a media device though it has been classified as such by analysts.

The problem for the Fire may be competing against the Kindle. Many people use an iPad along with the Kindle because of the e-ink display. Would a customer spend extra money just so they can play music and video?
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The option can sound enticing for startups that are grounded in Russia who don't have many more options. However, like another user said below... it's really just paying you to complete the product, like they're contracting you to build your own product. If they're investing in just you and not a multi-man team, may be worth considering?
Well, as I have written in other comment Harmattan =! MeeGo. Nokia has started shipping N9 yesterday - you can still have your maemo.

P.S. N950 is great as well but it is quite hard to get one I guess :)
Sure..and put the rest of us out of business? : ) Although it is interesting to think about what the make-up of the genetic material would be. Just a string of 0s and 1s? CPU opcodes? Or maybe some higher level sub-units.
I really dislike services like that. Searches cost real money to Google, using them through that is almost stealing, in my opinion. Just use a different search engine.

EDIT: I'd like if someone would reply if they disagree. Do you dispute that each search costs money to Google, or what?
What if you are active in publicizing that information. Does that make you complicit in some sort of improper profiteering?

EDIT: I know you said you weren't a lawyer but I thought I'd put it out there for someone.
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>1) "discover new functionality" is a "learn", not a "use".

I'm talking about application usability. When I say something is hard to "use" I roughly mean "how easy it is to pick up" and "how easy it is to use everyday".

It's a sign of poor application design when you have to learn it instead of merely using it.

After six years of regular vim use I still find myself constantly forgetting key shortcuts and which feature accomplishes what.

A text editor is not conceptually difficult application. It's unlike a cockpit. Case in point, Textmate.

Whatever, it's not worth splitting hairs. I think that not being able to use an app until you thoroughly look at its documentation is a fairly clear cute example of an unusable app.

>2) Vim can have menus too if you want them, and a mouse to go with them...

I know. I use MacVim almost every day of my life. The menus don't even cover everything you can do with a buffer or a split.

>3) I learn new things about vim all the time without reading the documentation. A massive community makes that quite easy.

Reading blogs I think falls under 'documentation'. I don't want to Read Things just to use 10% of a text editor's features.
Firstly, what kind of name is this. Kindle Fire? please. Also no integrated email? I agree, it could possibly be added to the amazon "ecosystem", i mean it is only $300, but still no email? Email messaging is too important today.
Interesting. Links show up as purple if visited for me as well.
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