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That might have to do with very low demand. Like 1 download/week. Only assumption though.
Well, XP to XP SP 2 was practically a major release, and that was free as they promised.
Samsung wanted webOS, but they didn't want to pay for webOS, so they go to Intel and persuade them to dump Meego to build "a web OS". I remember reading somewhere that Samsung was interested in "a web OS". Instead of going to the OS that has a million devices, start from scratch for cheap. Great.
Yeah, I immediately thought this was related to Jnes...
[Insert Stimpy "JOY!" here]

That would, indeed, be awesome. I take the iPad almost everywhere, so I have no need for an iPhone which is little more than an iPad Nano. Thing is, I need that "little more" - the phone part - as well, and want it as a separate device which I _can_ have everywhere. It's back to the "just a phone" desire, a device focused on making phone calls with Apple design sensibilities. Take an iPod Nano, insert a bigger battery & cellular chip, support Bluetooth headsets, sell millions.

Methinks coincidence though. Four icons is just enough to get the invite info across in a cute way, and there just isn't another suitable way to arrange them (a 4x1 line? not for advertising).
unfortunately, this reminds me a little much of how my life used to seem. hopefully the author can find succeed with their startup.
Think this build adds in ^-[ as an alias for Esc.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2009/gb2009...

http://www.zigwheels.com/news-features/news/volkswagen-acqui...
It seems like the Big Telcos attempt at doing what Apple did with the App Store. Their biggest fear have always been to be reduced to a "dumb data pipe", which is basically what has happened now with the iPhone and Android (notice how Apple and Google are not participating members :)

You can be sure that WAC will be prominently featured on any handset where the operator has any influence.

Maybe it will work, or maybe it will be the next WAP, time will tell.
The first obvious answer is that software should be configurable to a point where it doesn't matter.

The second obvious answer is for Germans to make a piece of software that requires a qwerzy layout.

The third is to switch your keyboard layout software side...
That's two streets away from our office (in the Moo.com complex). I hope they fill their new building with engineers.
Sounds like you are violently in agreement on substance and quibbling over the wrapping.

Your argument basically breaks down to: I do all that stuff but use none of your fancy words.

That's great, spread your work methods around, many others are not as fortunate as you.
Now that's a pretty dumb move. If it isn't broken *please*
don't fix it.

>*please*

Does his blog software not allow him to italicize text?
Which Telecoms Store Your Data the Longest? Secret Memo Tells All
> The literature is, by and large, unreadable. It’s all written in a kind of code, with inappropriate data in large amounts,

Seriously? I mean, Newton's Principia is written in Latin.
It doesn't do auto-complete (even though it's trivial to add). For that I just use SublimeCodeIntel.
> 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.

Look into Genetic Programming (as opposed to Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Programming or Evolutionary strategies, three other fields that arose independently).

In GP, the genotype being evolved is a program, usually represented as either a tree of instructions or a string of assembler instructions. There are other schemes but these are the major two.

However, there's a fly in the ointment. Averaged over every possible computable problem, no one algorithm is the "best". It's called the "no free lunch theorem". The upshot is that with some clever encoding of domain knowledge into the genotypical space, you can often produce systems that outperform human-designed systems. But you cannot start from an absolutely generic genotype and necessarily arrive at the 'best' algorithm, you will always need some degree of manual intervention. Don't ask me to explain it better, I can't because I don't follow the maths.

GP has lots of interesting nooks and crannies, I refer you to A Field Guide to Genetic Programming for a fairly readable introduction: http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
The Euclidean algorithm and modular inverses
Video capabilities will be interesting. iPad can play some 3 full movies and still have battery life to spare.
congratulations!

I've been thinking of porting drupal drush project to WP for a while and never ever found enough time to do it :P
> Just a string of 0s and 1s? CPU opcodes?

These have been tried. Historically Genetic Algorithms have represented their genotypes as bit strings. Some Genetic Programming systems use CPU instruction strings (pros: fast as heck, cons: can produce indecipherable spaghetti code that breaks when you remove those 400 NOOPs because it's adapted to the cache size of this particular CPU).

> Or maybe some higher level sub-units.

These too. Sometimes as trees of instructions, dataflow diagrams, FSMs and so on.
This is because to be eligible for a grant, you need to be certified to comply with the federal rules. In most cases, this is done by the university getting the grant, but there are companies that will do this for you for a fee, and even examples where independent researchers have started an "institute" that has been certified. The advantage of the latter alternatives is of course that the administrative overhead is a small fraction of what a large research university charges.
Vintage Mode is implemented entirely via key bindings and a few plugins (which come as commented python source). Everything is customisable, there are some details at http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html
What I like about the Free software is that if the main author dies or stops working on the project, I can pick up where he left off instead of write blog posts saying we should all give him more money.
Have your own Google Plus URL
Knowledge generated by government funding should be freely available (UK)
That's not working for me. Help->About offers an update, downloads it, installs it, then informs me that the update it's just installed (6.02) is old, and I should go to the website to download v7.
A recent prior discussion of OISC processors brought up another HN contributor's "Calculus Vaporis" https://github.com/kragen/calculusvaporis
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Rule #1 in Brain Rules, http://brainrules.net/the-rules
Why didn't someone think of paying Microsoft to go away earlier? I'd much rather give them my money than have them dictating the pace of technology adoption and therefore be forced to give them my money.
PG.... I believe that this article displays a problem in culture with NYC. Here there's a culture of complainers, while in the valley there is a culture of do-ers. I mean this article mentions why you didn't give an introduction as to what Y combinator is. For any real hacker, that would have been a waste of time just like anything else that is similarly a Google/Wikipedia search away.

The event was great. We are trying here in NYC, but one of the largest problems here is because (as you said) startups are not culturally accepted as the norm, its harder to get word of mouth about your product going. Therefore allow me to plug spottmusic.com here. :)

Thoughts appreciated....
anybody know why spotify is mentioned so much more than grooveshark?
Australian Linux users file formal complaint over Windows 8 boot restriction
Show HN: Let’s Make a 3D Game: Device Orientation
I see this benchmark as a joke. And not a funny one.
Ps. I cannot stand bar graphs that does not start from zero.
A problem for many universities is that they don't even really succeed at it. This grant-sucking infrastructure isn't free, and apart from the direct costs of grantwriting / paperwork / etc., universities sometimes even undertake major expenditures with a view towards making themselves more attractive to grants, e.g. tailoring construction or hiring towards grant opportunities, flying people around and hosting events to oil the gears of potential partnerships, etc., etc.

The top research universities pull in enough grants to make that all worth it, but many smaller universities don't ever come out ahead, though they like to pretend they do. There are small schools where they consider it a huge success that they land a $1m NSF grant now and then, but they are almost certainly spending more than $1m every few years to do so. In addition, even when you do land grants, co-financing is becoming more popular, so the university ends up having to kick in even more money in the successful case.

A bit more on that from Georgia Tech's former CS dean: http://innovate-wwc.com/2011/05/18/if-you-have-to-ask-ten-su...
I hope that Canonical fork Meego so it can live on in some form.
Implemented my own quicksort that seems to have better performance than the built-in one.

q = (lo, hi) =>
# highlight range
VA.persistHighlight([lo..hi])
p = VA.get(lo)
l = lo
r = hi
# test pivot position
t = false
while (l < r)
if VA.gt(l,r)
VA.swap(l,r)
t = !t
if t
r--
else
l++
if (l > lo)
q(lo, l - 1)
if (hi > l + 1)
q(l + 1, hi)

q(0,VA.length - 1)
Scroogles lack of cache link isn't relevant to the comment I replied to.

"I am getting a hunch (just a vague feeling) that we might be approaching a time where a new, simpler search experience would pick up a lot of users - maybe amongst us HN/early adopters?"

If it was a top level comment, you'd have a point.
Yes I was. I always assume the worst from a website, so I think that google keeps even a copy of the drafts emails even after deletion etc. But not everyone thinks this.

And I think it's wrong to think that most people can/should assume this without being tech-savvy etc. A lot of people use facebook without even realizing that google indexes pictures profile, wall posts, comments to facebook application. You cannot ask them to understand that facebook is able to log EVERYTHING you do on a page (clicks, mouse movements, etC.) and has the technical/hardware means to sort/keep/monetize these data

They should know, but they really don't.
FWIW, my 2 cents:

1. I thought PG's informal speaking style was actually quite cool, no issues with that. However, he did seem a bit distracted. At times, it felt like he wasn't sure what he wanted to say next.

2. There were too many people. Maybe I shouldn't complain, since I am not sure if I would be invited if YC didn't invite so many, but it meant that the speakers/alumni were crowded-out most of the time. Having booths would make it easier to find alumni, but it makes it more like a career fair so I am not sure I like that too much either. Another alternative would be to split up the area into multiple sub-areas for each of the speakers, and have a separate parallel Q&A. I have seen this done successfully in other industry conferences.

3. I thought the presentations were generally quite good and left me inspired (and scared as well). Talking about YC's application process would have been a waste of time since most people seemed quite familiar with YC anyway. The one thing I would have changed - having some time for on-the-spot Q&A.

4. The lack of explanation about color coding was a major complaint. I would have had 2 icons per badge instead of color coding - one indicating if you were a designer/developer etc., and the other icon indicating whether you were looking for a job, trying to hire etc. Good, obvious icons are way easier to understand than color codes.

Overall, I am happy that YC came to NYC, and that I got the opportunity to meet so many cool people. So thank you YC team for that, and for bringing me a couple of steps closer to making the leap :)
Thanks for linking those, makes you realize that those brilliant financial guys at Porsche maybe aren't ALWAYS brilliant.

Pretty crazy swing there, remind me never to buy stock in either.
Google clearly doesn't think that that Scroogle is a net minus to them, so why would you think so?
Scrum is for those firms who do not want to hire a real product manager and empower one after they are hired.
The problems a lot of people have with self-control stem from the way they deal with the split.

If you think of the brain as something to be controlled then you will run out of energy very quickly. You can't hold it in place.

If you think of it as an animal to be trained, then you can slowly alter its behaviour until it does what you want.
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A scientific way to price b2b software
It's also worth noting, though, that the fall-out of this cost Porsche dearly:

In its efforts to acquire a majority holding in Volkswagen AG, Porsche built up a large debt burden, aggravated by taxes due on very large paper profits from Volkswagen AG options. By July 2009, Porsche was faced with debts exceeding 10 billion euros. The supervisory board of Porsche finally agreed to a number of arrangements whereby the Qatar Investment Authority would inject a large amount of capital, and Porsche would be merged with Volkswagen Group. On 23 July 2009, Michael Macht was appointed CEO, to replace Wendelin Wiedeking, who is expected to receive a compensation package of 50 million euros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Corporate_restructuring
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I'm a big advocate of graph dbs for certain use cases...however the comparison in this case seems one sided and nonsensical. I suspect 'Select * from graph' in mysql is a token gesture only to mask the pre-loading of neo4js entire graph into memory. The single line caveat right at the end to say no tuning has been done to either db should probably go right at the start.
> More immediately, Dr. Davis speculates, re-energized brain cells could behave like mitochondrial-drenched muscle cells, becoming more resistant to fatigue and, since bodily fatigue is partly mediated by signals from the brain, allowing you to withstand more exercise.

This corresponds with the experience of sports scientists and coaches: more highly adapted athletes can withstand more training; and indeed more training is required to disrupt homeostasis in order to create further adaptation.

But it's a diminishing process. A beginning trainee can get strong with 3 sessions, 45 minutes a week, and get linear gains in every single session. An elite-level weightlifter can find themselves spending 6 months on a complicated program to add 5kg to their maximum singles.
Pretty ridiculous to kill yourself over losing a round of really expensive poker. Especially considering Merckle could probably command a higher monthly budget for the rest of his live than I can. And my life is pretty nice no death wishes here. He should have probably have the news sink in a little to gain some perspective on it.
Tags are dead by design in the new Delicious.
The problem is that, from an accounting perspective, money that should've been funding TM2 is considered TM1 revenue. So it looks like he is giving away TM2 for free, even though many, including myself, only bought TM1 for TM2. I think Sublime Text is smart for charging for the ST2 beta in order to avoid this problem.

Macromates should've charged new customers for the TM2 beta while he had a chance years ago. I bought TM1 recently. There was no good reason I should've been paying for TM1 in late 2010. I should've been buying and helping to fund TM2 directly, even if it was an alpha release. I don't know what held up TM2 development, but Sublime Text 2 has shown that people are willing to pay for a broken unfinished product if it has potential. Now he has a whole bunch customers, myself included, to unnecessarily grandfather in.
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OCaml for the Masses
Does anyone have any experience with these? The reviews seem rather slim.
It already is happening, look at ddg.gg
I couldn't find that, then I loaded it in Chrome and saw the "Options" links. Viewing it in Chrome also enables search suggestions.

I guess Google are sniffing for a WebKit useragent to detect a modern mobile browser.
Google is starting to become a lot less minimal. I like their current design direction but as the OP stated in the article the cruft is starting to build up.
5% of a billion monthly users is more then enough justification. At Google's scale fractions of a percent are often worth it.
Parity with Emacs?

M-x no-way-no-how
You know what I like about this website? It doesn't use the word "curated" to describe what it does.

{I realise this is an off-topic personal bugbear)
It seems like a reaction to boot2gecko
Spotify is 100% licensed. AFAIK, Grooveshark is more like Napster in that it's a free-for-all with user uploaded content, though they have worked out deals with some of the record companies.
Solve a complex problem or just workout to keep your brain fit.
Yeah! Screw you, musicians that want to earn minimum wage! http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
We should consider the first iteration of YCNYC a MVP. Kudos to Renee and the YC team for taking a chance and pulling off a great event. I really enjoyed the evening (see my HN post from yesterday -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3043069). It was very inspiring, with lots of energy in the room and was a rare opportunity to speak with YC alums. The fact that YC provided free pizza and beer was a great gesture.
I think someone could definitely get a lot of visibility writing a free good Hacker News client, instead of trying to charge $3 and being annoyed that no one buys it.
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As far as I know, barely anyone use Grooveshark in Sweden while practically all my (University) friends use Spotify. Doesn't Grooveshark have some quite dodgy habits when it comes to paying the artists/using legit music files? Or was that some other music streaming service?

If nothing else Spotify has received a lot of good press in Sweden simply because it is Swedish. Patriotism :) And this was a Swedish study after all.
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It will be interesting if the mice are subjected to behavioral testing over time to see if the exercise-induced changes improve neurocognitive outcomes. Hopefully they are working on that.
OnStar to stop collecting user data after service cancellation
I personally like grooveshark, because it literally has everyone song I want.
I have no worries... My job is show respects to my boss.
Everybody loses! A paragon of free-market efficiency!
In some fields, I think this may have huge impact. No math or CS journal would want to be unable to accept Princeton publications.

Even if publishers make exemptions rather than change their policies, it sets a precedent that exemptions can be made for institutional requirements.
Word from some Googlers is this will be mostly used for sales rather than engineering.
Helpful flowchart for what book(s) to read
Moving from pedagogy to andragogy
The attempt of Porsche to take over VW has gone into history as one of the best examples of financial over-confidence. Porsche was doing really good and decided to bite of more than they could chew, nearly went bust as a result and ended up being bought by the party they originally sought to acquire.

Wiedeking left with a 50 million golden parachute so I don't think he's complaining.
I did something like this for my Master's, I evolved Java objects using genetic programming based on a set of unit tests. Managed to evolve a simple bank account example and a reverse polish notation class. Here's a link to the paper http://goo.gl/cgGWM
They're still using the Flash version in the embeddable/oEmbed-discoverable version.
Intel finds a way to let go of MeeGo
Sounds good, but a truck-sized loophole?

In cases where the journal refuses to publish their article without the academic handing all copyright to the publisher, the academic can seek a waiver from the open access policy from the University.

The policy authors acknowledged that this may make the rule toothless in practice but said open access policies can be used “to lean on the journals to adjust their standard contracts so that waivers are not required, or with a limited waiver that simply delays open access for a few months.”
How to Create an HTML5 Microdata Powered Resume
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

(http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...)
I like that the OSI raised the WTFPL licence at a 2009 Board Meeting. I feel the outcome, 'Reject', is a loss for open source software - I'd love to see a programme with LICENCE.TXT containing that.
Princeton is not the first institution to do this, and many publishers have been flexible if you don't want to handle copyright for your work. I think this won't change much because academics are still required to publish in the same journals, and references are made to journal publications instead of web sites. Even today one can easily post papers in their personal website without problems.
Was the iPad a Kindle killer?

It doesn't seem to have been, but no few people were predicting that it would be.

When in doubt, I take what people who are paid to write about the tech industry say and assume the opposite.
You’re Pricing It Wrong: Software Pricing Demystified
Cool , man!!!!!!
probably nothing to do with monetary damage itself and everything to do with reputation damage.
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Seems so familiar. I just started to face this problem and I already hate the idea of spending the rest of my life like this. There must be some way out of here...

As a little side-point: on HN we often discuss the values of startup life, or various different alternatives to 'day job'. I can understand why many hate the idea of spending most of one's life as a nine-to-five worker doing things one doesn't exactly care about. I hate this idea too. But, if we applied this attitude on the scale of the whole society, would it not collapse? If every shop clerk, Starbucks barista, bus driver, electrician or other professional realized that there must be a better way of working, what would happen? Do we need to force people to have jobs (so that they can eat) for modern civilization to work?
Why Article Spinning Doesn’t Work
I agree with you on one point. In a lot of cases, the cost of supporting older browsers (say, IE7 and newer) is grossly exagerated, but if we're talking IE6, I completely disagree. Maybe for simple websites, but the moment you start getting in to web applications with a moderately complex Javascript UI, the costs go up very quickly.
I hope programmers are so sanguine when their work is "correctly" priced into oblivion. I do think that subscription services are the wave of the future but I don't see how you can argue that Spotify helps artists.
I couldn't help but send you money Sir. Please keep up the great work!
This seems destined for mediocrity. Lacking vision and passion.

"Lets create a linux platform for every single device that isn't a computer."

Bleh.
Not-much-$ is still better than none-$-at-all. It's not exactly the choice of Spotify vs. buy a CD in shop, it's a choice between Spotify and BitTorrent.
Judging by the other comments here, it seems that shortly after this was written, the financials went horribly awry for Porsche...

Anyone care to explain, preferably in a similarly understandable style as this article?