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I don't really get why you're being downvoted to oblivion, that's a great stance to take on science in general. So much media buzz is made over n=1 things; you can cut out a lot from your information diet by ignoring things until they get replication. If special relativity is wrong, we'll find out in due course, and the current counter-evidence against special relativity is hardly a dent compared to the massive evidence in favor (both theoretical and experimental). Just a few days ago I discovered this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4172 They assert Events as the only fundamental object, not space, not time. Then: "by asserting that some events have the potential to be influenced by other events, but that this potential is not reciprocal, we can describe the set of all events as a partially ordered set or poset, which is typically known as a causal set" and from there they derive Special Relativity.
I assume you're talking about the open source exchange rates API - will soon have JSONP support via the openexchangerates.org proxy, for sure - so like normal, you'll be able to go `callback=lolwut` or whatever you need.
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"However, none of us must forget Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert, who still face the threat of a direct and personal lawsuit having given so much to the open community for zero cost and zero reward."

It makes me angry. Even worse is the fact that there seems to have been very little noise about this outside HN (that I've seen).

There ought to be more outrage here, but the fact is people who have never had to directly manipulate time data across different time zones don't realize why this is so fundamentally important, and even those who have don't always realize that keeping up with the changes is real work.

I sincerely hope for the best possible outcome for Arthur and Paul.
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You might be interested in this interview which came out just yesterday [1] about techniques for detecting people by the way they walk (apparently, throughpressure point patterns in a digital footprint) with (IIRC) 99.6% precision.

Regional identification through manners and/or phonology goes back to the concept of a shibboleth [2]. This is used rather wonderfully as a turning point in many stories (without spoiling too much, I should mention that Tarantino pulled this off nicely in one of his films).

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2011/10/todd-pataky/

[2] http://duckduckgo.com/shibboleth
I think the problem is that Marco sees Instapaper users as his customers. I sympathize with this, but I think iOS is an assertion by Apple that App Store customers are Apple customers. App Store Developers are providing a service to Apple's customers. But everything that happens must point back to Apple's servers, not their own.

In the same way Apple doesn't want every developer operating their own independent payment system, they also don't want developers operating their own cloud storage services. If Apple holds the data they can guarantee its security. They likely see these problems as temporary, until developers and customers learn to adjust to the fact that iOS data is controlled by the iCloud service.
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In modeling customer acquisition, the metaphor of a funnel is often.

I think you mean "often used". :-)

I was a little taken aback by the gold/platinum/silver categories of customers in services; there was no explanation of why these three are given. (In my case, categorization of users ... hmm, actually it does pertain, now that I think about it.)
Great. Except now the online backupmarket is going to be as cheap and reliable as consumer dsl.

Which is to say pretty cheap and mostly reliable, which is okay when you once or twice a year can't go online for a short time (clothing need to be changed anyway) it is just not good enough when your wedding pictures gets deleted.

Or worse this crazy offer banckrupts the business and you suddenly can't access it any more.
Cheers dude!
So what is your solution?
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Nobody is suggesting that. In any case it's a false comparison, since anybody has the ability to fully exercise their freedom of speech. To exercise your open-source freedoms fully require skills, time, and/or money (to pay others to do it for you).
Like you, I also don't sign up for a lot of sites until people start talking about it. If I keep hearing about it, it must be good right? All I can say is that I'll probably start signing up for more of those sites now that I've realized how difficult it is to get conversions ;).

Thanks for the feedback on the tagline! I agree, it needs to be more concise. Definitely helpful, thank you.
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Hi guys, launched a service to kickstart iOS development and beat the learning curve. We provide short and succinct tutorials to get you started. Would love to hear your feedback/comments. Thanks!
For a while the only reason I had Firefox installed was because of Firebug but the Chrome tools are getting to be just about as good and I've pretty much lost all interest in Firefox. I'll still have it around to make sure sites work in it but I certainly won't have it on all my machines.
I'm afraid GEHIRN ended the Evangelion test pilot trials a few years ago; sorry.
I think its just representative of the creators passion for the work being created. If one is to spend a good amount of time and effort in the creation of a library, and they feel its as good as it should be, then it follows that it deserves good presentation. So I agree, but I can imagine it helps to be a competent creative[1], to pull off a good presentation.

[1]: in the loose sense of the word.
Sure. But graphics and basic game mechanics are actually really easy to code in assembly -- it's crazy state and decisions that get way more difficult. I'd bet coding up a triangle rasterizer would be significantly easier than coding up a cutscene.
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Good catch, thanks!

Think of those suggestions as v1...coming soon we'll have "business templates" that will flesh these out more.
Glad you like it, thanks!

The homepage for this and the exchange rates API was designed in-browser, i had a lot of time on my hands thanks to two back-to-back 8 hour flights.

Naturally it's based on the HTML5 boilerplate (http://www.html5boilerplate.com) - HTML done by hand, but if there is a template service, I'd love to know about it.

The colours are mostly taken from Solarized Dark colour scheme and modified a bit: (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized)

And the sandbox demo console is something i threw together just for this but released on github (http://josscrowcroft.github.com/javascript-sandbox-console/)

PS The robot (currencybot) came from http://robohash.org using the text 'CurrencyBot' :)
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His claims barely put him in the upper quartile. Being debt free is not a 1% thing....sorry pal.

In 2005, making 250k a year doesn't even put you in the top 1% of household incomes in the US.
I think it's a girl. Girl handwriting, girl hands, floral wall art in the background.
> He's only "required" [to do] so if he chooses to use iOS. And if he chooses to use iOS, it's because the platform attracted him, and one thing that attracts a lot of people to it it's the "it just works" and "you don't have to manage it".

That is entirely true, and yes that is part of the problem. The polished nature of a proprietary operating system is like a polished jail. It may be nice and roomy now, but what about in 5 or 10 years when everyone has an iPhone and Apple has one or no competitors? Can we stop them from shrinking our room if there is no free alternative?

> Except if you jailbreak

Actually, no. You can access the filesystem, but you can't install your own free (or proprietary) operating system on the iPhone because there isn't one.

Free software isn't all about nice looking features (though they tend to get developed in time), it's largely about creating a dynamic that ensures the freedom of the user, and that protects them from anti-features, both blatant and subtle. It may not sound like much on the surface, but it's an important issue, especially if someday someone in power says that they don't approve of what you do with your computing devices.

The user of a program is controlled by the program and the program is controlled by the programmer. Do you wish to be controlled by someone who won't show you what the program does, and doesn't allow others to make improvements? There _are_ alternatives, and they are not perfect. I don't expect everyone to be an early adopter of every free technology, but there are many, especially at HN, who would be able to use them and to help them grow to the point where most people would be able to use them quite easily. Developing free software is an act of generosity, because it is much needed in our world, where we are becoming so dependent upon computing technology.
Debugging I'm with you, but the actual time to create simple parts of the game? Going to have to disagree with your disagreement. It's like two lines of code nowadays to move a sprite around on screen and draw it, because you don't have to write your blit function yourself.
You don't seem to have a good understanding on the difference between what is permitted and what is discouraged.

Questioning of all science is encouraged. Blind denialism is discouraged because it is idiotic, but permitted.
I have run into errors caused by weird uses of inline, I think it was with the MIPSpro compiler, in code happily swallowed by gcc.
Can you think of a way to improve my game's[1] interface, taking into account that it has to work on both mobile devices and PCs?

Also, if you find any bugs I'd love to hear about it!

[1] http://cardinalquest.com/free_edition/
Thanks, this is exactly what I meant :)
Maybe we should've. Chemistry would've been impossible to develop without alchemy's findings, based as it is on the elements alchemists discovered and the techniques & equipment they refined; and alchemists gave us gunpowder, which seems like it might've had something to do with the Age of Exploration and subsequent Industrialization.
It's an old gcc extension. Don't use it.
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Great post.

When I quit my job in big services firm, I went for advice before moving out & also to say goodbye to one of the vice-presidents (who had run his own start-up which was eventually acquired by this big services company).

His specific message to me was: make sure you have enough money to last 3 years and make sure all your partners will also be able to stick together for 3 yrs. Because anywhere between 2 to 3 yrs is the inflection point when people are forced to quit due to whatever circumstances. If you guys can successfully see through 3 yrs I am sure you'll all figure out ways to make money with your business.

He advised me to start looking at alternate channels to generate revenue right from day one: network & find training / consulting opportunities even while you are building the product. Even one or two weeks of such work in 2 to 3 months will go a long way in sustaining the business was his advice.
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I'm trying to expand my online LaTeX editor into a viable business. My cofounder and I think there is potential for a great enterprise product where we could really improve the workflow in publishing houses and teaching, where LaTeX is used a lot. We've had enough feedback from individual users to think this, but we're struggling to get our foot in the door with the people we'd need to talk to about selling to them on a larger scale.

Basically we're new to this game and are struggling to get started. I don't know if you or anyone can help, but it's worth a shot. Thank you very much for lending your time like this, I hope the karma comes back to you!
The website says "The ‘API’ is powered by a simple nodeJS scraper" so I got the impression that you were screen scraping the search page. Consuming an API is typically not considered scraping.

It's not obvious (and IANAL) whether an undocumented API is "provided", but the bigger stink IMO is your re-licensing of the data. The data is unquestionably copyright Google, license unknown. I'd get rid of the license-tag: You're giving the world a license to re-distribute some data that may very well not be yours to distribute in the first place.

Finally, providing data for download in a neatly packaged format would qualify as duplicating and copying in my reading.
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Yes, I was talking about https://raw.github.com/currencybot/open-exchange-rates/maste... + &callback=something

Great news :) Thanks
Projecting your life upon others is remarkably naive.

He ignores the students who have to drop out and take care of the family when a parent gets sick or dies. He ignores the students who get sick or battle addictions or have mental health issues.

He ignores the parents who can't afford health care for their kids. The parents who have to cope with losing a spouse or a child. The parents who have to care for their aged parents.

When you're young, you don't tend to think about how close you are to losing everything. You don't think about how a car accident or a fire or cancer could completely derail your life and leave you with a debt that you can't manage.

He appears to have no empathy for people who lost everything by doing the safe thing: buying a house, working a job, and living the dream.

He also appears to not hold Wall Street up to the same standard as the 99%. Where's the part on his card that tells Wall Street it should have sucked it up and not asked for a bailout?

Isn't that what Occupy Wall Street is about? Wall Street getting a bailout while average people are told it's unpatriotic and un-American to ask for help?
It's a referral id. It basically tells Amazon who sent you; in this case "thealgorithmrepo", which is probably the folks in SkyMarshal's link below.
That might not work so well with the structure of the library, but I'm open to calling it something else, if enough people say it's an issue - so feel free to fork it and do a pull request.
You've made a good point. I should have clearly stated the differences as a selling point in the landing page. I originally thought that it would be alright to just let the visitor read about app and be able to spot the differences on their own, but it takes too much time to do so. I probably wouldn't scroll all the way to the last page myself.

We're different than the alternatives because we allow you to take control. You decide on the location where you'll meet for breakfast, lunch, coffee etc., when you have the time to meet up, and how many people you are comfortable with meeting at one time. Other people come to the event to meet you.

You can say that we're trying to make it comfortable for the user to meet new people by allowing them to create events at their pace, in their neighborhood at their favorite restaurant.

Thanks for the feedback, very useful!
> To do away with death is to do away with evolution. Not a very good idea.

It's a great idea. Evolution is about the dumbest possible optimization process which still works. I don't see Google throwing its hands up and saying 'screw engineering Bigtable or MapReduce with our silly minds, we'll just evolve those fuckers!'

Science: it works, bitches. (With apologies to http://www.xkcd.com/54/)
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It started out as a text parser, and was impressive enough as a concept to get significant DARPA funding for five years.
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This + catapult = want.

Please don't mod me down for my dreams.
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Thanks Mike! Would you be able to give me some feedback on a product idea I'm working on?

Its a platform for video tutorials where the student gives their response for a lesson via video also. The first use case that comes to mind is guitar teachers. Students can post video responses to lessons and be corrected/ advised. The teacher would pay for the platform and perhaps charge th students through the site, or even off site.

Do you feel this has legs? Any thoughts or ideas welcome. Thanks! Stuart
Gravity is not accounted for in special relativity, only general relativity, and this argument is purely based on special relativity. I can't speculate quantitatively on the magnitude of gen. rel. effects, but given the short times, high neutrino speeds and low gravity I suspect they're dwarfed by the already minor effect discussed here.
1) You need 4.

2) They all orbit in the same direction.

3) There are a number of different orbits, but they are all inclined at the same angle.

The illustration on that page was, I'm afraid, drawn by someone with no clue what the constellation actually looks like.
I understand the sentiment of your first paragraph, but the thing about your graduation is a complete non sequitur. The quality of your graduation ceremony has nothing to do with the quality of your education, and protesting there doesn't hurt anything but your feelings.
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tracking what you clicked on to get to the product page.

does not change the page itself. If you want to have fun you can change it to "ref=monkey_poo" as I am wont to do.
Your wife and all non-programmers get a major benefit when they use free software. When your wife uses proprietary software, she can never have any level of confidence that the software does what it claims to do and nothing more. Microsoft or Apple can do anything they want behind her back, and the only chance she'll ever have of knowing about it is if some disgruntled employee decides to spill the beans and doesn't immediately get silenced by Microsoft or Apple's huge legal team.

But when she uses a program whose the source code can be examined by a worldwide community of programmers, her chances are greatly improved that if the code plays any dirty tricks someone will already have discovered the offending code, they will have screamed bloody murder, and the offending code will already have been removed. Even if she's unfortunate enough to have encountered the malicious code before it's been discovered, she can be confident that when it is discovered: 1) it will quickly be fixed, and 2) since it's in Microsoft's and Apple's interests to disparage F/OSS software, it will be prominently reported on the 11:00 news.

I'm certainly not claiming that there's any absolute guarantee that any software is safe. If you really want to be paranoid, read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167....

But I am claiming that her chances of being harmed by having her data misused are far, far greater when she uses software that can only be examined by a very few programmers inside an organization that has a vested interest in hiding the misuse. She's much safer when she uses software that can be examined by a worldwide community of programmers whose vested interest is in achieving status within the programmer community by producing code they can be proud of.
What were the development cycles for those later arcade games? How long did it take to build Mortal Kombat and how many people did they have working on it?

I should've looked at Wikipedia first, it answered part of my question.

"The first Mortal Kombat game was 4 guys, literally, one programmer, myself (Boon), two graphics guys (Tobias and Vogel), and a sound guy (Forden) was the entire team, literally"
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http://www.rebookmarks.com is a network to which you can submit your articles for the purpose of increasing your internet presence, building back links to your website or blog and hopefully boost your search engine rankings. This is basically the same idea as Article Marketing.

With the free membership, you can submit each article to http://www.rebookmarks.com network with do follow back links. You can select which categories you want your article submitted to so that you can make sure they are relevant to your niche.
Public companies are required to disclose significant risks to investors, and to execute due care in discovering and evaluating those risks.

This is simply guidance to when "computer security issues" should be among those risks.

So for instance, in NFLX's 10-K, you'll find:

IF THE POPULARITY OF THE DVD FORMAT CONTINUES TO SLOW OR IF THE RETAIL SALES PRICES OF DVDS DECLINE, OUR BUSINESS COULD BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED

Although the growth of DVD sales continues to slow, we believe that the DVD will continue to be a valuable consumer proposition and studio profit center for the next several years. As DVD sales begin to decline, studios and other resellers may significantly lower prices to encourage consumers to continue to utilize the format. Unless we are successful at retaining our subscribers with our streaming offerings, a decline in the popularity of the DVD as indicated by declining sales or a reduction in price leading to consumers purchasing instead of using our service, could result in our business could be adversely affected.

The SEC is suggesting circumstances in which they'd expect similar language surrounding information security.
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I believe the email submission area is actually one of the first things I notice when I visit the landing page. I'm not sure if the problem is the email submission area. Does anyone else have a problem with this? I agree that the response after sending the email is dry- I'll figure out a better message to thank the user for their submission in the next revision. Thanks for your feedback!
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There are much more subtle differences that will wreak total havoc without the compiler emitting a single squeak. For example, compare this compiled as C or C++:

#include <stdio.h>

int foo;

int main(void)
{
struct foo {
int a, b;
} x;
printf("%zd\n", sizeof(foo));
return 0;
}

One should always write code in the best possible way for the language actually in use, even if this is invalid in some other language with superficially similar syntax. In converting code from C to C++, adding a few pointer casts will be the least of your worries.
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SimpleDB is good for a lot of things, but the unpredictable costs (since you're charged for box usage which varies) and network latency make it unsuitable for logging at scale. (like, what if you get 100's of error messages a second?)

We use a decidedly low-tech scheme. We log everything to files on local storage. Then we use a command line tool to periodically sync these to S3. Each instance gets its own folder.

When we want to query, we have several options. We can run good old grep or tail on one instance -- or on several instances with pssh. We can use the S3 command line tool to process multiple files on an admin machine. Or we could use Hadoop to mess with files in S3 (haven't done that yet...!)

Not as snazzy as having each log record stored in a structured fashion, but it's a lot cheaper than SimpleDB.
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That is the entire machine learning field. Very well designed black boxes which you train to classify or estimate your desired quantities based on you input data. It might not be true "AI" but it gets a lot of practical work done.
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I'm sorry that the app doesn't have any usefulness for you. Thank you for your feedback anyways!