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People have built their own, though. It's not easy, but it can be done.

The question is, does launching a rocket into space technically count as export?
Don't forget the runtime environment though :)
to be precise, contributing means giving your copyright away to Google.
It means all you're doing belongs to Google, not to the community, or yourself.

Oddly it puts people off from contributing patches. Oddly!

I'm all for freely contributing to projects, but I will never assign my copyright to a corporation.
A not-for-profit at least, but corporation, come on.
I actually completely agree with you[1].

My [intended but perhaps poorly articulated] point was that playing DnD doesn't feel the same as making tools for DnD.

However, if you accept that premise and are willing to endure potentially dull work, then caring about DnD will allow you to make much better DnD tools.

[1] (updated to remove irrelevant personal information)
It's foolish to ignore input in any form, but few people (even very bright, successful people) have the verbal bandwidth necessary to discuss important things solely via the written word. I tell people "business emails should be one short paragraph at most". (unless you are sure the other person can handle it).
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I think it's hard to raise money anywhere - the key to raising money in Durham is to make sure you aren't just talking to people in Durham. We raised money from NYC, SF, and Seattle (with less than 10% coming from locals).
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Stb.h - portable C utility library in a single header file
Forrst launches new jobs service for designers & devs
It's not "theft". It might be bad, arguably immoral or unethical, but it's still a fundamentally different thing.

What you write reads like this to me:

"It's an argument that attempts to justify rape by pointing to the supposedly heavy burdens born by... if people found a way to rape gas station owners cheaply and easily, they'd... if raping Whole Foods were no big thing..."

Copying a digital artifact is not the same thing as rape, but neither is it theft. It sounds similarly ridiculous to many people.

(For that matter, I don't think it's "piracy" either -- more accurately "bootlegging" or "counterfeiting" (depending on circumstances) -- but I think that term has been successfully repurposed to the point that it's not worth arguing.)
Shared Source is nice, or half-open source.

Or, "we take all the benefits, free workforce and goodwill of free software while retaining all control and money".
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It is a good effort is sell used cell phone while you plan to buy new. For this you require to do search for the mobile recycling website the model you want to sell. To go for comparison portals is a simple and easy method that helps you is where you can compare selling mobile phone prices and find the best deal.
Great point as well.
That looks great. Will you be posting any info about how you did this?
For anyone interested, I recently released my version of the remote server concept mentioned in this article, written in node.js.
https://github.com/snkashis/node-parlez
They would have to compensate for artificial curvature introduced by the cameras they are using. If you look at the images you can clearly see that effect.
I like that post because it highlights a complaint I've quietly had when I look at a lot of sites (both start-ups and established).

Here's a wish-list (vis a vis commercial web sites):

Please...

Always have an "about" link that tells me the name of the company, its corporate form, and who non-anonymously stands up to represent the owners. I want to to know, before we do business, that you are legitimate and not hiding behind a veil of anonymity.

Please include a "contact" page that includes a regular ol' email link, a valid street address, and if at all practical, a phone number. I want to know, before we do business, how far I have to walk to knock on your door in case there's a problem.

Please have a page that explains, concisely yet substantially, what the new site/service does. I do not mean "Do you have problem X? We solve X!". I mean a non-salesy, short guide: "If you sign up you get Y. Y performs function Z."

And as long as I'm wishing for candy and nuts: please have a page for technical types explaining in broad terms how the service functions. Now, I understand that this can be sensitive. You don't want to give away the recipe for your "secret sauce". Still, you can hopefully tell me enough technical info to give me a realistic model of what it is that you propose I use.

For me, when I look at a new or new-to-me service, those are the questions I'm hoping to find answered in the first couple of minutes of looking. When a few of them aren't answered by the site, I tend to give up on the site after just a few minutes.
Test Navi
Java 2-way TLS/SSL (Client Certificates) and PKCS12 vs JKS KeyStores
I worked at one of the major GPS manufacturers as a hardware/firmware designer and we stopped tracking above a certain altitude and over a certain velocity due to government policy.
I remember one time there was a bug report from a customer complaining that our GPS would not work after mach 2 or some extreme speed. This ended up being a "qualified" foreign government client, so a new firmware version was sent which removed the restriction.
B.S. It didn't support it because they never planned to include it in the 4S. Apple can get more money buy selling both 4S and then the 5 later with 4G.
Nice site. You can do the same thing by running tcpdump on a remote host and nmapping every port. You can do this your self or work with a friend.

Cool site nonetheless. Makes it easy for non-techies to do.
He came to the US on an exchange visa. And then he brought his family. And then his visa expired. And then he applied as a refugee. And clearly he is not a true refugee, he just likes living in the US. And he should have left in 1997 but he's been fighting that order in the courts ever since.

I think it might be an unpopular opinion, but in reading the legal doc, he doesn't have much of a case to stay. He should have been deported 14 years ago. The real tragedy is that it took so long.
EU citizens are free to move to any other EU country and work there, no questions asked.
It's startling to me that everything I do comes from 50 megabytes of source code.

This fact was a result of the mapping of the human genome, and has since been proven wrong.

But like many such facts it has a certain "stickiness" to the human brain. I expect to be hearing it for many years.

I tried finding the paper which found that the complexity of mRNA or tRNA (or some other kind, I forget) produced in the brain matches the complexity difference between mice and humans almost exactly, unlike the difference between the two genomes.

It also turns out that type of RNA is very fragile and very easily mutated compared to DNA. And evolution does like to follow the path of least resistance. By my google-fu fails me.

tl;dr: It's not 50 megabytes, shit's complicated.
It also doesn't count the crazy amount of epigenetics that occurs too, and the specialization that becomes emergently interactive with the environment of other cells and outer world.

Still 50Mb is crazy small for what you'd think the genome would be.
> I thought Brin's response was HUMAN!

Me too! And a bit funny. I can't think of a better way to handle this mess than to (a) not fire Yegge, (b) poke back at him a bit publicly and playfully, (c) address Yegge's concerns internally.
Remember that the $199 price is subsidized by the 2 year contract. I believe their cut is closer to the unsubsidized price of $599.00.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC603LL/A
Same as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134327 which was on the front page.
I think an important piece left out was how Amazon ostensibly built the platforms first, and then built their services on top of them to make sure they were robust and viable.
Yes, I will. When I've got it doing something useful I will post a full blog post with details and also with the source code etc.

Some more pictures to give you the idea:

1. All the LEDs removed from the cable and stuck into a specially drilled piece of thin plywood: http://yfrog.com/hwy2snj

2. Reverse of the plywood showing the bulb with all the cables cut. Had to cut, strip and solder all 288 cables back in place: http://yfrog.com/j2xp8gsj

3. Little shot of the rewiring on the back. The colored pieces are tiny bits of heatshrink that I put in place to insulate everything: http://yfrog.com/nzh3ngdj
If there are a lot of songs too, it's definitely India :)
Slavery was appalling, but nobody was advocating 3/5 as an actual statement about their metaphysical humanity. It was a purely political compromise on the total influence and taxation of the south vs. the north, because they couldn't agree on x + 1/2 y or x + 3/4 y. The proper number for congressional representation should have been zero, not because slaves weren't people but because they weren't permitted to vote.
I, too, was hoping this article would be about The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed.

It has, however, filled me with a desire to write a script that writes novels (which I could then sell on Amazon). Perhaps I'll do that for this year's NaNoWriMo.
I worked on a natural language processing project as my required directed study in college. We focused on language generation and took an extremely naïve approach to the problem since it turns out that literature on alternative types of language generation (as opposed to simple generation from n-grams) is not well-proliferated.

Needless to say, it was very hard. Semantic representation by itself is very difficult to tackle; AI in general far off from simulating the wit and ingenuity of a human being's writing, though I don't believe it will be like that forever.

For the curious: we didn't get very far into the project, but our next move was going to be trying to combine WordNet, FrameNet, and VerbNet to create stories that sounded like they described something plausible. We only got a bit past "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously," though.

It's something that I say I want to hack on again someday, but I don't know if I will. The two of us have other code projects right now.
On the other hand, Kurzweil (at least in his essays and articles) often ignores the question of what a fair null hypothesis is for the possibility of the singularity. I think his gift for creating a compelling vision tends to make people forget that the null hypothesis for a scientific assertion is doubt.

Kurzweil provides both high level general evidence (like improvements in computation) and low level, domain-specific evidence (like the discussion about the pancreas) to support his claims, but none of that justifies the use of the word "law" in "law of accelerating returns". He attempts an analogy with thermodynamic laws and how they are derived from underlying statistical principles, but there are no underlying fundamental principles of human innovation and progress that are in any way comparable to the certainty and universality of physical laws. This, I think, is why a lot of people (myself included) have a hard time taking him seriously. He tries to apply the same kind of formal analysis that works well in science to human beings and the complex, highly non-scientific processes that underly innovation today. The bottom line is that, until the singularity occurs, human beings will still be needed to build ever more complex and powerful systems, but human beings do not progress at anything close to an exponential rate.
Neither Kurzweil nor Allen have done their homework. This is a disappointingly informal argument if you're looking for hard scientific facts.
Twaddle! I find dark text on a white background unbearable. I'm much happier with off white on a dark background.

Anyway - each to their own. It looked okay to me, apart from some tiny script in places. (Safari, OSX 10.4, 1280x854)
Sure. But playing the "checklist feature" game can lock you into any platform you want to argue about. I have stuff in my private hosting that I can't get from gmail too (procmail triggers and filtering, I can deliver mail from my business address through the corporate SMTP servers over a VPN, ...).

The question is whether productive use of email can be done without gmail (or more broadly cloud providers). It can, and it's not difficult. And if one really cares about privacy and archival concerns (and not just sticking it to Google) it's something one should investigate.
depends where it lands, maybe.
We use Stripe and they've been wonderful.
It's not cost to build, it's cost of components only.

iSuppli reports are often sensationalized by comparing cost of components to retail price, as if everything in between was pure profit, without regard for cost of assembly, transport, taxes, not to mention Apple's incredible R&D and logistics to secure supply of those components and delivery millions of units in the first weekend.
There's a program that writes sports reports for baseball games rather well.
Rage against the machine
They should be able to do that. No?
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Well, others had discussed whether he'd get fired, but I think the consensus was that he wouldn't because it'd be a bad PR move.

However, I don't think it's correct to say that they would have been firing him "over a rant". They would have been firing him over a lengthy, detailed, public (intentional or not) criticism of the company that went after the most senior company executives by name.

I don't think he should have been fired, but I think something like that would be considered at least a "fire-able" offense at pretty much any company.
Here's a good post from someone hacking these Christmas lights, and reverse engineering the protocol: http://www.deepdarc.com/2010/11/27/hacking-christmas-lights/
Jason Huggins' Angry Birds-playing Selenium robot
Up and Running with Clojure
you are right! ill fork it!, btw tried it on iphone and works, it will make a good combination with sencha touch :D
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*feat.

But I'd say that 121,000 is pretty amazing feet too...
I vastly prefer honesty over PR; and I think many engineers do too.

It is a mistake to equate "honesty" with "blurting out the first thing that comes into one's head, no matter how rude, and no matter who is listening".

And it's one thing to take your employee aside for a blunt conversation, and another to broadcast your criticism from a public stage, a stage where the employee's pride is at stake and yet the realities of politics, PR, and media ecology leave the employee effectively unable to respond in kind.

There's nothing dishonest about the phrase "no comment", just as there's nothing dishonest about concealing your body by wearing clothes. It's about privacy. Some things are appropriate for a press conference, some things are appropriate for an all-company email, some things are appropriate for a one-on-one with an employee, some things are appropriate for close friends, and I'm afraid some thoughts are just inappropriate -- there's no shame in having them, but you should show some restraint in sharing them.

And it's true that many people grapple with these principles in the way that one grapples with a strange foreign language, and that engineering culture has evolved to cope with that reality. But Google's not trying to build a social network for engineers. They're trying to build a social network for the world. And if appealing to people beyond the Google culture is business-critical for Google, then politeness is business-critical for Google.
It's meh. you can preview it in themes. Condensed version is much better. Lots of complaints in google help about spacing and contrast, to the point that they even have a survey up focusing on those issues. At least they're listening.

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?hl=en&conta...
It all depends whether you're using that metric, though -- it's all fairly arbitrary. X15 pilots were considered astronauts for exceeding 100k ft.
I don't have any special knowledge of any of these languages, but the full version of Monkey costs $120. If you are willing to spend that much, then you might want to first look at a more mature competitor, NS Basic, which has been around, in one form or another, since 1998, and which costs about the same as Monkey. I'm not sure what all of the differences and similarities are, but I notice that they released an update to their "NS Basic/App Studio" today.

http://nsbasic.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Basic
Foundation (similar to Twitter's bootstrap)
Show HN: This just made me smile.
GPS satellites are much higher than that.
yeah, indeed -- but i think the optimization is actually broken. if you are just waiting for an HT or a TH in a sequence of flips, then you will just wind up with H..HT or T..TH, so that the very first flip decides the outcome. this is how i first (much too hastily) read the algorithm, but, somewhat surprisingly, found that the expectation matched exactly.
There are some nice tutorials/articles at flyosity.com and bjango.com

This is one of my favorites: http://flyosity.com/tutorial/crafting-subtle-realistic-user-...
Surely that's a function of "rural" rather than "South"? You can get great internet in some parts of the South, and crappy internet if you move to remote parts of California.

Or so I would assume, having never tried to get internet in the South or in remote parts of California.
A practical way to put miners back to use and back Bitcoin with compute power.
Bocas Del Toro
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Turning Patent system to first-to-file patent system vs first-to-invent system
Yeah, I'm not a designer so the site is nothing special to look at :)

The more important point is this:
* I launched a MVP
* It made sales
* I know it's worth investing more time

And I still think it's surprisingly rare not only for people to sell stuff online, but to even dare to try.
It's interesting that antirez mentioned in a blog post that Steve Jobs was not his hero, because he values different types of contributions and accomplishments. His post got flagged and removed from HN, whereas this one seems to be fine. I guess it a matter of saying the same basic thing in different ways and with different context.
Yes, this. There's an ongoing discussion on arocket regarding these issues. It's a problem for many amateur teams.
"Another funny thing about US immigration law is, that if you are an international student in the USA (on an F1 visa) you are entitled to work only for the university that has issued you this visa."

Isn't this all part of the 9/11 hysteria ? I am not sure but I was told that before 2001 you could work part time for any employer you wanted if you came here on a F1.
I'm not sure how this matches up with your previous article, http://www.humbledmba.com/dont-give-bullshit-advice , that made the point: "Don't tell an entrepreneur whether you think his idea will work. You don't know. You have absolutely no idea."

Either you give advice about what doesn't work, or you don't... you can't do both.
I was waiting for the camera to stop picking up sound the whole time. It got really squeaky and full of static towards the peak but it never seemed to happen.
What about energy?

It's true that if you look at most areas of technology they are advancing rapidly. Except energy. Energy has stagnated since the 1950s.

I'm on the fence on this issue, but there are many very intelligent and knowledgeable people who are predicting a kind of anti-singularity: in the 21st century, fossil fuel depletion will send us way back, perhaps even de-industrialize most societies.

Is our civilization simply a machine that is transferring the order (low entropy state) in fossil fuels into order within itself (technology and economic complexity), and when those fossil fuels run out will this ordering process cease?

The lack of major breakthroughs in energy in the past 50 years is pretty dramatic. Nuclear looked like an energy panacea once, but it's turned out to be clunky and hard to scale. Solar panels and wind turbines are interesting, but the problem with those is that we basically can't store energy. Energy storage is either super-expensive per kilowatt-hour and not scalable (e.g. Li-Ion batteries) or very inefficient (e.g. water electrolysis to hydrogen).

Without a breakthrough on the order of cheap ultra-capacitors or fusion, I'm afraid we'll be seeing peak everything pretty soon, including technological complexity.

The thing is: all the technologies of the "singularity" are energy consumers. Where are the producers? What is going to power the singularity?

Then there's another area that makes me horribly pessimistic: politics. Most of our societies are degenerating to banana republic levels of corruption. Even if the energy problem is technically solvable, it seems to me that our political systems may be set up to do the absolute worst possible thing in this area: ride the fossil fuel crash into the ground in an orgy of war and despotism.
I thought Brin's response was HUMAN!

And if not re-contextualized by the reporter, then also clearly shows him being a dick.

I've been at huge companies, I've written Yegge sized rants to the VP of engineering, and that VP actually red my rant of frustration, ALL of it, and did something about it. And this was at one of those boring giant East Coast tech companies that still have their roots in the old DEC and IBM company cultures.
I agree in most of them, except for:
- The order seems confusing
- Hiding the free plan. Yesterday there was a dropbox article in TC, where the CEO tells the story (well, in slides) of dropbox marketing, and how hiding the free plan was making them loose lots of users (who can beacame paid users and/or recommend your service).

thanks for the link! :D
Are You Bad at the Internet?
Australia vs Wales live stream rugby.
"If this service was only to accept Bitcoins, then the value of Bitcoins would be backed partly by computation power -- much in the way that it is currently backed partly by drug trade."

There is the problem, imo.
Maybe they got Greensboro AL (population 3000) confused with Greensboro NC (population 300,000)?
Travel wisely, use a phone
How to create an addictive game like Angry birds?
I'm a big fan of The Wire, Treme and Shameless (US) for those kinds of shows, suggestions are welcome!
How about "write-closed" vs. "write-open"? Or more simply, "read-only open source".
I'm impressed with the machining on this. It looks like he made it at home in his own shop. It looks very solidly welded and bolted together. As an ID student that's the most amazing part for me, the thing had to have been really solid to not just fall apart under that much speed.
Edit: Although I was disappointed by the lettering coming off the side of the shaft and covering the camera lens. Something that would be hard to predict :P
If GPS failed before 100,000 ft (and it looks like any commercial GPS would), what about the altitude charts on the project's homepage?[0] How were they generated? Can that data-gathering method qualify it for the Carmack challenge?

0: http://ddeville.com/derek/Qu8k.html
This post is interesting, and I am interested in Clojure. But I'd like to see some more posts about real-world Clojure usage.
I tell people "business emails should be one short paragraph at most".

This is one of the reasons good people, often the best people, (not just software engineers) leave big companies.
I really changed it ;)
Thinking on an answer, I realized that it is not that I don't trust the FSF, I just don't care much for their actions anymore. Their intentions have been devaluated by the actions and comments of RMS. Everytime RMS gives in to its tendency to destroy more than create, the FSF looses value for me.

And this is obviously my opinion. I know a lot of people believe the contrary, and that is ok. Everybody is allowed to have an opinion.