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Not all libraries want you either. In my home town, the main library is so filled with students and high schoolers "hanging out" that honest researchers didn't have any more space. They started a policy that if you don't need the resources of the reading rooms (books, machines, ...), you're not supposed to use them.

My hometown has >1mio population, 3 universities and a lot of students occupying the libraries. Coffee shops can be a comfortable alternative.
How I Got Screwed By Barbara Walters (Ignite LS NYC)
The phrase that comes to mind is "A dinosaur, but in a good way."
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Tutorial list
As a developer at some point of time I had to search for tutorial or solution on google. Does anybody knows any site that will give you the list of tutorials.
Dave Winer : Smile more and Snarl less ...
When someone gives you a happy look, appreciate it, and try, when you can, to return the favor.
Kind of screws over tablet or smartphone users however.
(and no, google, i do not want to use your crappy mobile version, that is why i set my useragent to 'desktop', yet you don't listen!)
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A patent is not an inalienable right. Definetly not in the libriterian sense.

1. A patent is, fundamentally anti-libriterian. It's an example of the government interfering with private action, buy granting exclusive rights solely to a single entity. When the government enforces a patent it intervenes in the market place, picking winners and loosers. In most contexts, that's called corpatism. The fact that the rights conveyed by government granted monopoly can be bought and sold doesn't make them a libriterian concept.

2. The monopoly granted by a patent is not inalienable. Congress has the express power to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" through granting of monopolies. Any monopoly rights conveyed by congress impede the natural rights of man. They prevent me from manufacturing, selling, or reproducing what I see fit to manufacture, sell, or reproduce. As an action that is fundamentally abhorrent to liberty, congress's power to grant such a monopoly is only valid within the scope of it's enumerated powers. Software patents do not "promote the progress of science or the useful arts", they impede it. So, not only are they not inalienable, they are unconstitutional.
And in FireFox 7.0
Well, we've removed the 'annoyance' with the original Kindle, why make an effort to put it back in? What does touch add over the use of buttons (other than, "Look! We're using a new technology, therefore it's better and you should buy one!")?
Ipad holder blog
I came across three.js and was actually looking for it randomly today, very cool.
I hated the article and though it was stupid until I read the last paragraph.
I'm the pedantic engineer who'll tell you that if you don't like "planned obsolesce" (angry words for advancement of technology?) , you'd still be working with computers the size of rooms. If you don't like passwords, use keypass, or good luck doing your banking on a typewriter.
AAAnd then, the author makes a BIG BIG stretch tying it in with Jobs... come on, I love apple, but the Steve Jobs dick sucking has got to stop. He's not a god, and he didn't do it all by himself.
I for one would love to go all "Lewis Black" on both Rooney, and the clown that wrote that article.
I think you guys interpreting this advice a little too narrowly. Here's one of the guys from Put This On (Jesse Thorn) advising the Kickstarter guys how to "Dress Like Grownups" http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/jesse-thorn-from-put-this-on...
Caches are kind of a touchy subject. I have no information that they are, but I would not be surprised if Google was inexorably moving toward a 'no user accessible cache' policy. The reasoning is pretty simple, people push things they don't mean too, then they 'fix' it, but if the GoogleBot was in the area your 'fix' may not be as durable as you hoped. Recent examples are iPhone 5 leaks on carrier sites, mis-priced sales at Walmart.com, and support sites at HP for products that were going to exist but now aren't.

Clearly its not Google's fault that people screw up and they happen to look at the wrong time, but a strict interpretation of Google's mission would suggest that keeping bad pages 'cached' isn't part of it. And while the vast majority of cached pages provide a great service like when HN exposure overloads a web site you can still see the content, Google cannot practically fix every cache page where the owner doesn't want it cached (they might not even know it is) and then fix it. (Yes you can email them to have them spike the cache but how many people realize that?)

A couple of the newspaper types went after them claiming the cache was an 'illegal copy' but of course the page didn't say 'no-cache' (which would keep it out of most CDN's as well so its painful).

So the cache feature is useful, but not everyone thinks its a good thing. If they have annoyed Google enough, Google may have just said 'screw it, lets get rid of this capability for end users.' But again, that is just speculation based on seeing it get harder and harder to 'discover' that Google has a cached copy somewhere.
No- it's not just keyword mentions. Our main product analyzes the both the content of an individuals Tweets and social factors to make decisions about what they know. I'd be happy to share more about how we do that- shoot me a note at joe@inboxq.com if you want to chat.
Disney Mobile Turns the iPad Into a Racetrack for Toy Cars
Amazing how this is so similar and yet so different from an Apple announcement. Jeff Bezos is incredibly smart and a great CEO, but when it comes to presentation he's no Steve Jobs.
'Interestingly, one word I didn’t see mentioned at all throughout the survey was “freedom.” To me, this is what the American Dream is all about, and is in large part what the country’s first immigrants found so appealing'

Yes, I'm sure that's what african immigrants were thinking when they stepped off their boats.
Patches for stable OpenSSL are linked from: http://technotes.googlecode.com/git/nextprotoneg.html

I understand that NPN can be a pain, but it's the right thing to do. Connection: Upgrade is slower and breaks over MITM proxies.
Thank you for this. When I was reading his article I was not seeing how OCaml was readable. Good to know it was just formatted oddly on the webpage.
There seems to be a belief that dressing nice means wearing a suit but that's not so. You can look very nice and still be very comfortable. Simply wear clothes that fit well and ditch the hoodie and you're most of the way there.
Same here, but in Canada. DDG response time is a major showstopper. From a brief examination the issue appeared to be rooted in DNS response time, which is something that I wasn't able to fix by trying different DNS servers. So, regretfully I had to switch back to Google.
Interesting concept. The people should be facing the screen though, not me.
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I have worked in the games industry all my life, and also had my own game company. I am starting to think the industry is seriously broken in it's current form.

The main reason is that it is such a hit driven industry, which means that most companies live from hit to hit, until the moment they have a failure. At that point, most companies close down, as they can't afford a new production and may not be lucky enough to get a publisher deal early on.

The problem is that it is hit driven industry, and this is true no matter if you make AAA games like Gears of War or Halo, or if you make small iphone games or middle-sized games on Steam or XBLA. The sales numbers drop sharply as you move away from the top selling games and it is extremely hard to stay in the top for very long.

Publishers are essentially the VCs of the games industry, and have enough money to spread their risk, as they know 80% of their projects will fail.

Another problem with game production, is that you don't really need that many people early on, when you are still figuring out what game you are making. Then slowly as you enter production, you ramp up the time. This is also the same reason, that so many people are often laid off after a game comes out. There is no longer a need for all those people in the company.

What I think really needs to happen, is for games companies to become more like movie production companies, where a team is assembled as needed and can be dispersed with no hard feelings after the production. The production of a game, also becomes a much more measured risk this way.
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Oh dear. I'm surprised someone hasn't had a major-league lawyers-involved hissy fit about this. Thanks for the info!
My completely subjective personal preference is better than your completely subjective personal preference!

No, in all seriousness you make a good point about PDFs. I eventually realized that reading, say, a programming book was best done with a dead tree and that I should stop struggling with my Kindle. As a PDF, the text was a bit too small. As a converted document, the reflowed text killed the formatting, which was also no fun. Full-size PDF would be nice.
What Influences Customers' Online Comments
There's something mildly fascinating about SUBLEQ - I got as far as designing a CPU for it a little while back.

http://da.vidr.cc/projects/subleq/
Kindle ($79)
Kindle Touch ($99)
Kindle Touch 3G ($149)
Kindle Keyboard ($99)
Kindle Keyboard 3G ($139)
Kindle Fire ($199)
Already have Kindle - no plans to upgrade
Waiting for later/better versions
Don't have one and no plans to buy one
Some company switched to a better version control system. what's the news?
Those are both in the first batch.
You're not the only one. I can't find a single person who tried the Apache SPDY module. There is also no recent activity on their discussion board, which is not promising.
SF Mayoral Candidate proposes an API for city government
Don't bother. It will come accross as condescending and ignorant.

Instead, ask them to show you some projects they've worked on. Let their passion speak for itsself.
Understand what you are buying: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/kindle-fire
Kindle app on Android phones also uses single tap to page; it's extremely convenient (compared to the old Kindle with physical buttons which I also use). Touch for paging is certainly no worse than the old buttons, and--really--the keyboard and cursor control on the old Kindle are just about useless. ("Up, up, up, left, down, down, up, ..." is hard to take after having a touch device.)
Oh, Delicious — where did it all go so wrong?
You're afraid others will steal it? IMHO, I think this paranoia can be harmful. Yes, if you talk to people, there is a "chance" that someone will steal it. This is a risk. But I think you need to take that risk, because the benefit of researching your market far outweights this.

So get out there, talk to people, find out if your idea is SO GOOD, that people are willing to pay for it. Hell, see if they'll pay for it now!

Good luck!
It is unlikely that you'll be able to administer a test like this effectively. A test with difficult enough problems is about the WAY you think, not the ansewer you end up with. That even disregards programming tests as a decent measure of competence. This also disregards the fact that ajax is a part of JavaScript and not a language.

Your best bet is to find a consultant you trust and pay them to find a few competent candidates, or find a technical partner
USB Rubber Ducky: advanced USB spoofing platform now available
Man, how our expectations change in a short time. Nobody quite believed the iPad's 10-hour claim at launch, now apparently it's the accepted baseline in less than years :-)
Show HN: RideZap
This is a side project that I have been hacking on for the last two months. It started out as trying to find a better way to see my girlfriend, as we go to universities in separate cities.

The backend is built with Ruby on Rails. Some of the frontend interaction is Javascript.

Any feedback would be very well appreciated.
Clickable: http://www.ridezap.com/
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I am not sure but your first sentence sounds a little bit trollish. I think the Galaxy Tab 8/10 the Xoom or the Eee Pad Transformer are quite successful and established in the market.

Yes Google does not directly benefit from the android fork amazon created but i think it is also a quite good and interesting example of the often called openness and freedom of Android. It is quite refreshing to see a big company using Android as the base and modifying it completely to their needs.
BitServ: A Social Music Platform
Hello! I started a web service recently and want to see what y'all think. Essentially, for now I'm dubbing it as a "social music platform".

The idea is that songs are added via dropping a .mp3 link (a bookmarklet for that is available too), and songs are ranked, even stratified rankings according to their respective tags like, #jazz, #hair-metal or #indie.

The cool thing is that songs ranked #1 in their respective tag listings are given a chance to display their ads. So if my song ranks #1 in "jazz", my ad is displayed in the sidebar.

Ads don't have to be a simple linked image either. They can be full-fledged javascript ads. Ads are sandboxed using AdSafe. You can see the possible functions/methods available at http://adsafe.org

For now, you'll need an fb account to add and vote for songs. Fb is a good option since "liked" songs are displayed as playable mp3s on Facebook. This might change in the future (to say.. Google+ or Diaspora*)

Thanks for reading. Hope to get your feedback (esp re: why/why not this idea would work).

http://bitserv.us
It looks like SPDY was added in Honeycomb so they would have had to add support themselves since Amazon started with Eclair.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/spdy-dev/bwb-qhiLICc/NzbWN0K...
Thanks for the great suggestions. All are features that we'll add in the future. The goal was really to get something out there that had a small bit of utility and spend more time on it if people found the visualization interesting. As I mentioned a few threads up, this is something that our outgoing summer intern worked on during his last few days with us and we wanted to release it before he headed back to school.
This what you get when Google buys your startup.
I think there are a number countries that defy what you are saying here.

Sounds like a True Scotsman.
That's weird (on DNS). We have been having an issue with in Canada where one of the major ISPs is dropping packets on route. If you'd email us I'd love to investigate this further.
The big question for me: does it support sideloading? If so, I'll definitely be purchasing one.
There seems to be a lot of bickering along the lines of "business is business, and he should keep his promise of business"... Which doesn't quite make sense to me. If I were him, I'd charge all yall $80, but up it to $90 if you sent me an email about free upgrades. Buy it, or don't buy it. You love the product. you ponied up for a mac. I suspect somehow I'd sell enough to not be able to give a rats ass what you think. That's business my friends.
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Because nice clothes are the epitome of form over function: they aren't comfortable to wear (loose fit == airflow), they're more expensive than is reasonable, and "good taste" in dress is mostly arbitrary.

T-shirts and jeans are comfortable, versatile, and inexpensive.
Or they just don't want to deal with the PR problems.
Neo4j API offers methods for graph traversal out-of-the-box which are likely the same ones that most people will use.

Interestingly, Marko didn't use Neo4j's native API (http://api.neo4j.org) -- he used a dataflow framework he wrote called Pipes (https://github.com/tinkerpop/pipes/wiki/).

You probably have heard of the graph programming language Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki). Gremlin is a thin wrapper over Pipes.
A/B/N testing from what I heard. One of the examples I know of it that they split the users into about ten groups, and very slightly changed the blue hyperlink colour between them. They found that even a slight variation made a difference to the click-through rate.
The mind bogging part is that this should still be faster than just rendering the damn page and executing the JS.
Compare: cost of a tailored suit, cost of a pair of jeans and T-shirt.
Why the name "Kindle Fire" shows Amazon isn't kidding around.
The equivalent price of three snarky subculture-identification T-shirts.
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Galaxy Tab 8/10 the Xoom or the Eee Pad Transformer are the best selling Androids up to date but to call them successful is quite of a stretch.

For example, last week a Lenovo executive claimed that Samsung's Galaxy Tab sales were far lower than what Samsung vaguely stated: 20,000 actual sales, rather than two million (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392422,00.asp#fbid=EJq...).
Finding Love Optimally
"e.g. a picture on an adult dating site can be used to find you on Facebook"

Also, e. g. a picture on Facebook can be used to find you on /r/gonewild. Even absent full faces, eventually just skin tones and identifiable marks (tattoos, birthmarks, mouth shape, whatever) will probably be able to id you in pictures you may not want to be identified in.

So don't put nudies up on the web unless you're ok with someone, maybe 5 years from now, being able to Noogle them up in a couple of seconds.
You should be able to figure it out from my profile + google :)
Sensationalist title. A better one would be "Unreviewed proof claims that Peano arithmetic is inconsistent". This is self-published, hasn't been looked at by anybody else, and contradicts a very well-accepted and thoroughly examined argument for consistency from way back in 1936.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentzen%27s_consistency_proof

[edit: as the commenters point out, I'm no mathematician, and I'm working off Wikipedia. Go with what they say.]
They kept on adding more games to the last bundle. I don't know if this one is going to be the same but I'm interested to see if they add more this time too.
Nelson is a full professor of mathematics at Princeton.

Some more discussion here: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2011/09/the_inconsistenc...

Notably, Terry Tao doesn't buy it.
For this kind of stuff there should be a way to flag a submission as 'sensationalist title' or 'likely false'. I just don't have the time to read all the comments for all submission just to find out if the submission is true or not.
I think the write-up has some bad signs (no central point, lots of side discussion, no new method ... see: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 ).
See http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2011/09/the_inconsistenc... for interesting discussion of this result.

However http://xkcd.com/955/ applies in spades here. While it would be really interesting if Peano arithmetic is inconsistent, it is also really unlikely. For those who don't know the Peano axioms, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms.

Of those axioms, nobody has any trouble with any axiom other than the last one. Which is induction. His claim boils down to stating that allowing proof by induction leads to contradictions. But there is a pretty big tower of theorems needed to get there. Most people's guess is that he has made a mistake. If he hasn't, then it is still far more likely that some theorem in that tower is wrong than that induction leads to contradictions.

However if he proves to be right, in that tiny sliver, this will be really cool.

Now for the people who think I'm wrong, anyone want to wager $200 on the outcome? :-)
Why would they sue us? They would copy our methods, we learnt a little about them but nothing that really helps us on a technical level.
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SPDY is also a more optimized solution for mobile devices. The ability to do server-push resources means that Amazon can fetch/preprocess/compress/cache the resources for a page, and then when that page is requested from another user and can be served from cache, they can dump all the required resources down the pipe automatically without the client having to fetch/parse/request/load/etc.

Amazon's 'everything goes through us' solution also optimizes in cases where SPDY normally wouldn't; external resources, such as jQuery served from Google's or Microsoft's AJAX cache, can be pushed to the client, whereas in a normal browsing situation you'd still need one connection to every server, so using multiple hostnames/servers would be detrimental to performance.
Speed of light exceeded?
besides the points already raised, why are you deciding which languages your "future devs" are going to be developing in?
I also believe the same, as we really know what we are doing better than them as it's been our total focus while this is a new project for them. We know they'll take market share but we are confident that we'll retain our user-base and hopefully over time we'll be able to share the space that their behemoth marketing team will generate through awareness.

Thank you for replying, I'm honored that you've read my note and taken the time.
No, it does not contradict Gentzen's proof.

Gentzen's proof proves that one set of axioms we think is consistent proves that another set of axioms we think is consistent is indeed consistent. However both sets of axioms could be inconsistent. We don't think that is so, but it could be.
I think you're referring to this story: http://venturehacks.com/articles/pricing
Sure, he's very complimentary, in an "imma let you finish, but the iPad is the best laptop replacement of ALL TIME!" sort of way, which is to say rather derogatory at the same time. He tries to place the iPad and the Fire as distinctly different products serving distinctly different market segments: the iPad as the high-end "laptop replacement" the Kindle Fire as the low-end, low-cost, blue collar, half-assed substitute which lures users into buying it through content delivery rather than device or experience excellence.

That's not terribly complimentary when you boil it down. My take is that the Fire, keeping in mind this is a 1st gen product too, is a quite suitable iPad competitor head-to-head. It will provide a high-quality browsing experience similar or superior to the iPad and it will provide a high-quality e-book reading experience similar or superior to the iPad. The Fire's lack of dependence on any sort of syncing with a PC is also a point where the experience is outright superior. The biggest difference is the size and perhaps the hardware / performance / efficiency, personally I don't think there's an objective reason to pick one or the other as obviously superior in this category. Perhaps an 11" screen is vastly preferred to a 7" screen, perhaps both are suitable, perhaps the 7" is more preferred, I don't know, and it's too soon to tell how well the Fire will stack up against the iPad performance wise. The other big difference is the app/game ecosystem. The iPad definitely has a head start and there are plenty of popular games and apps that are iOS only at the moment, but to be honest I don't think that network effect is big enough to drive the market a whole hell of a lot at the moment, especially in the face of a $300 premium on the iPad. The Fire doesn't have 3G, but it remains to be seen how important that is.

Overall, I think the Kindle Fire is a pretty strong competitor to the iPad, regardless of price. As I said, I think many people will find it to be a decent laptop replacement. Moreover, I think over the next year or so there are going to be a lot of moments where people who bought Kindle Fire's at or near launch will be having experiences that will make a lot of iPad 2 owners jealous.
Yes, I don't know why this wasn't done immediately. Is it important that an IP lawyer sends this request or is it sufficient coming from us?