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Is an unpublished attempt to quantify human attractiveness more significant than all the laws of thermodynamics?
Link-baiting headlines like this are really devaluing the entire journalistic process.

This feels like an article written by a hyperactive high-schooler with a fast-approaching deadline for his independent writing assignment. He first forms some vague but polarizing argument by stringing together a few loaded sentences to compensate for lack of real research and insight. Then it basically proceeds to just list the patents Apple will (or already has) used to litigate Android OEMs...
This is really useful and well presented. Two things:

1. The flying boxes effect is cool at first, but it's annoying when you are trying to look at the articles near the source of the "boxplosion". They obscure (and on a slow browser) cause temporary occlusion of the stuff that I'd like to read. Maybe cause them to explode in the background, rather than the foreground?

2. Although the UI is simple and really nice looking, I think one of the most important pieces of information from Reddit is "popularity". Perhaps you can fit the number of votes next to each box. Or even better, add a single-bar bar chart with positive and negative votes like this:

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Where each '+' or '-' in this representation is 100 votes or something like that.
Why was the sibling comment here downvoted? Seems like a reasonable question, I was wondering the same thing?
It can be the opposite though. With Science, Engineering & Math, it's possible to get a 99 or 100, and isn't that difficult if you know you stuff. And once you know your stuff, you can stop studying because further effort has very steep diminishing returns.

On the other hand, it was pretty much impossible to get a grade above 89 in an English class. No essay is perfect, it's always possible to improve an essay, so a perfect grade was never given out.

I put in a lot less effort than my friends in humanities and received much better grades than them. Many of my friends in Engineering dropped out, but the ones who didn't received excellent grades.
If I have a patent on the better mousetrap, that is absolutely infringing — you are building my patented invention without my approval. I think you're conflating patents and copyrights.
I love how it says "Google+ no longer supports your browser" when (as far as I know) it never supported it.
I can't tell if this is a site meant to increase Reddit's usability or if it's a satire mocking the kind of content that Reddit too often features. Either way, very well done!
I'll stick to CI, thanks.

This smells like another Zend product, and Zend framework was just a pain, in my experience.
Murmuration – Flocking patterns of starlings
I'm curious to hear more about your experience using that kind of system with programming knowledge. When you say "Haskell deck" are you talking about a literal "deck" of flash card type things? (whether physical cards or part of some Anki-like software)
Yes, they are merely flash cards.

I am at the point in which my programming decks are minimally useful, mostly because I have not memorize much to begin with. I think I was able to use them a few time in my day to day programming task. With a sufficiently sized deck, I would derive more uses out of them since there are more memory to draw upon.
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The one about the "mathematics of beauty" is just a formula to combine linearly different objects with different weights w_i that are renormalized to 1.

It's pretty meaningless/generic if you don't specify what the y_i stand for, and I don't feel like reading the paper. =)
So I logged in using my name/passwd from hawk.

The various pages you have, files, settings, ... don't give much indication I am logged in, they do offer me the logout, but they don't identify the account name, ja2038, so it's hard to know if I am logged in or not

It's not clear what the url to my pages is. I tried: http://pancake.io/$name but it would just redirect to http://pancake.io/dropbox. I would suggest each page (file, settings, etc.) should include my account name, and the basic url to my files.

Is the folder to be created in dropbox called pancake, or pancake.io? It's not clear from the files page, and no folders were created.

Have you played with the chrome extension SourceKit? It seems like a natural complement to Pancake.
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>Clearly, the majority of hackers disagree with me, so I'm convinced that 90% of Apple's incredibleness is their marketing (not ads, but understanding how to design and build excellent products which are very well targeted at their audiences).

That last sentence there doesn't make much sense at all.
How is "understanding how to design and build excellent products which are very well targeted at their audiences" part of marketing? That's straight up design and engineering.
Naquin is just circle jerking. I very highly doubt they knew exactly what was going to happen in Egypt, and their ability to see the future is more of a hindsight bias than anything. I believe this will become more evident as more serious events go by in the US, and will be proven when the US doesn't act with a sort of sixth sense to these serious events.
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I tried to comment as a fellow YC S11 alumnus but got a message saying "You are not a participant in this round table." It seems like an invite only thing. Anyways, so I'll put in my comments here.

Before we interviewed we had been pitching to a lot of people including other incubators etc. This was the only preparation we made. The questions that YC partners asked were similar albeit more pointed and direct. We showed them a demo that we had created and basically told them what we do. There were a lot of questions about the business. A lot of them we've heard and answered before. Some were new and we were honest with our answers (more or less). I think what we did well was the convey the passion we had for the business we were building and I distinctly remember our interview ending with my co-founder's 30 second monologue about how we really aspire to help people.

I think 10 mins is just enough for people to understand what you are doing and a little bit of how you are doing it. No one should waste time in actually trying to convince the partners that you bigger than you actually are. You might be able to pull it off but it requires a whole lot of BS-ing skills.
How to make your Windows 7 look like Linux GNOME?
"Do what the client needs, not what they want."

Great advice I got once.
Woot! Let's mine bitcoins!
I love it. This is one of the few Show HN posts I might actually use.

(Not to say other stuff is bad... I'm just not an early adopter)
Apple released iOS 5.0.1 beta 2 for developers to download
Instapaper's Marco Arment On How The iPad Is Changing Reading
Unemployment--Hire for potential for non-critical roles
That's the big difference between patents and copyrights. With a copyright, you can only infringe if you copy code. With patents, you can infringe if you implement the same idea. I think it makes many people uneasy with the patent system if someone built the same system without knowledge of a patent. The non-obvious clause is supposed to protect against that (and there are valid flaws in the implementation of this aspect of the patent system!)

It's not clear to me whether in this case the check scanning systems were in fact independently invented; there's certainly a hint in the article that meetings took place and the banks only implemented the idea once it has been disclosed to them ('willful infringement' results in triple damages, which could well explain the magnitude of the licensing amounts)
Well, part of it was that there weren't other browsers to worry about. At the time there was no Chrome, no Safari (no one used Macs in a corporate environment if there was), and no Firefox. All that you had was IE and Netscape, and Netscape was on kind of shaky ground at that point.

Those two kind of fought with each other by introducing new features that made web pages incompatible with the others. Also, even then corporations weren't really keen on letting you use some other browser, so IE was the go-to since it was already installed. Since the market was so slim, and seemed to be increasingly vanishing, it seemed easier to justify going with IE's extensions.

If Microsoft had kept updating IE and hadn't let it linger for years, we'd probably still be in the situation where they're in control of the de-facto standard. It's only because they sat with their thumb up their ass that things like Firefox and Chrome were able to get footholds and start disrupting the situation. Already being present and practically being named "The Internet" are really big adoption factors.
The article specifically says this isn't the main issue--many of the students dropping out are the people with the highest SAT math scores, and a bevy of AP calculus/science classes under their belt. In theory, these should be our strongest students.
"While online media is exploding and Blu-ray sales are anemic, native support of Blu-ray burning and playback in OS X needs to happen."

yes, that's soooo obvious !
You can mail a check. Very old-school, but it works. Banks like ING can mail the physical check for you, making the process as easy as using paypal.
Why was DataTreasury the first to implement this system? Probably because technology was just getting to the point where their idea was feasible, and megacorp banks do not tend to be very fast-moving. I mean, look at the state of banks today — they're still 5–10 years behind the state of the art.
If you need to pump out a high volume of moderately creative trash, then working in factory conditions makes sense.

If you need to foster actual creativity, if you have a desire to build things that touch people's lives and that people will talk about and be inspired from then perhaps less so.

The caveat that real artists ship is still in effect of course.
TL;DR: lazy ass journalist uses linkbait headline to discuss an idiotic idea of his.
Actually that's not exactly true, since Linpack doesn't really lend itself to architecture's like say, Google's, where you have lots of machines sitting on the network. The bandwidth between the nodes, and its latency becomes the determining factor. So for these guys it is all about the interconnect rather than just how many CPUs you can put in a rack.
I had to stop using it because of that. And I started to think of re-writing it as a self-hosted solution to hopefully avoid IP bans.

I don't know if you'd consider releasing it for anyone to install on their own server, and if pg would be fine with that solution. (assuming that each page load would dynamically scrape a single page on ycombinator.com)

edit: of course, it might still have its issues if a lot of people were to host it with the same host…

Another solution would be for pg to add a mobile stylesheet. That's honestly the only reason why I would need it.
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Attraction Marketing Basics
I would put it:

1. IPO 50% lower then you guided 6 months ago 2. Float so few shares that you can push the value yourself with cash from previous financing round 3. Profit 4. ???
Thanks for the feedback.
1. Good suggestion! I'll put it on my todo and see if it's possible.
2. Not sure if you saw it, but it is possible to hover the box and see the votes (bottom right). Most popular content is rendered on top (in some situations the order could slightly differ because of asynchronous calls being made in the background). Not showing the votes by default was because I try to keep it as clean as possible. I can fix you a parameter to set if you want to see the votes by default, let me know and I put it on the todo.
How I read this headline: "Creativity doesn't need a mouse...."

Result: http://i.imgur.com/XGSNx.png
I believe we're seeing, or at least I hope we're seeing, a collision between the rent-seeking faction of American corporations and the productive, profit-making factions of American corporations.

It would be very nice to see a coalition of companies who stood together on the principle of protecting the profits that come from creating more opportunities instead of the rent that comes from a variety of state-supported monopolies (Patents, "intellectual property" (Hollywood, patent trolls), monopoly on the use of telephone poles(AT&T).
Re: Real Artists Ship

I was expecting them to talk more about getting people structure to get them shipping more and challenging themselves - a la Jobs'. Instead, it really did feel like that place was a soul-grinder. The guy they interviewed didn't even work there anymore - telling...
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What impressed you about the supercomputers of 5 years ago that no longer impresses you about today's supercomputers? The Cray approach (http://www.nccs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/UserMeeting20...) and the IBM approach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene#Blue_Gene.2FQ) both seem more interesting than just connecting together as many CPUs/RAM as you can afford.

There are interesting OS challenges for the compute nodes, interesting hardware challenges on interconnect, interesting filesystem challenges, interesting programming challenges to manage the parallelism, competing architectural approaches between CPUs and GPU-accelerated clusters ... it's a pretty interesting space!
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FYI, they accept Bitcoin donations (which are fairly anonymous) at this address:
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That sounds like a great recipe to start justifying shaving off fractions of your market until you're down to only reaching 40%. Not saying that's what you're doing, but any kind of "Screw X, I will tell the users what they want" decisions have to be made carefully. It's a lot easier to think you've made a Steve Jobs kind of product than it is to actually make one.
How long does it take to boot Windows?
I may just be really tired and missing something obvious, but I see how to comment on other people's posts, but not how to post to the main roundtable. There's a message at the bottom of the page saying "You are not a participant in this roundtable," is that expected?
LOL - I know that... I mean well I look at them from line of sight (on a mountain) only 30 miles away they're little specs...
If the CIA weren't doing something intelligent with the public stream of Twitter data and Facebook data, I'd be worried about their competence.
Apple delays Mac App Store sandbox deadline
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I like Balsamiq Mockups better, but there is also mockingbird - https://gomockingbird.com
I think Lisp is much more amenable to proportional fonts because it relies more on parentheses than indentation for structure.
Not if i understand your comment completely but ripper in 1.9 seems to what ParseTree was doing.
Am i missing something?
Why I bought an iPad 2
> Doesn't it concern you that Groupon works best for services that no one needs?

Even if that were the case, not in the slightest. Massive businesses are built on items that you or someone do not perceive to be needed.

But Groupon also works in austere times both because people are looking for deals and businesses are looking for inexpensive or free marketing.
In a couple weeks, options will be available on the stock and you can buy puts. The upside isn't as good but the downside is capped instead of unlimited.
Apple releases iOS 5.0.1 beta 2 to developers
In protest to the Protect-IP act can google in protest not do work for people that support the act?

Really no idea how they would do it. But it would be funny if they did a virtual strike and not allow services for people in support for the bill.

Just a silly thought that came to mind.
5 million sounds like the number that the analysts are following, not the total number of tweets made on Twitter each day.
Ustream CEO John Ham Steps Down To Work On New Startup
Video: Angular, A Framework for Web Applications
As must be the case when a stock starts trading for the very first time.
This also predicates having location disclosure enabled on your mobile device.

Thanks, but no.
I certainly agree. There is also a different kind of burnout that comes into effect. It is very hard to focus on all science, all of the time. So you get burned out because you can't spend your time learning or doing anything other than science (most of which is in no way interesting and is simply a requirement that you have to take).
AMD is not "moving up"; they do not dominate in any segment. Whatever ARM's outlook, a comparison with AMD is meaningless.

As for fabs, IBM will gladly fab your ARM chip.
One minor nitpick - recent unibody Mac's have a slightly rounded, less "wrist razor" front edge on them.
Appears so: https://github.com/jpf/hacker-news-wp7/blob/master/README

If HN could give back json instead of html I'm guessing a lot of the crawling could be mitigated to client side. Kind of like appending .json to everything on reddit
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Mars Simulation Crew 'Lands' on Earth After 520 Days in Isolation
Ask HN: phpBB/vBulletin-like Python-backed forums software?
Are there any open-source Python-backed phpBB/vBulletin-like forums engines out there? Preferebly no ORM, Tornado or web.py. Thank you.
Where You are | Socyberty
Spaces or tabs have the same width within a font. Indentation at would work the same. You could even use tabs to line stuff up.

Plan 9 uses a variable width font for their editor by default, and I never really noticed any significant differences for writing code in it.
But DataTreasury wasn't a bank.

Was there a flood of overlapping patents for similar technology at the same time?

I brought up my entry into the industry in 1994 because '94 wasn't a slow year for tech at all. It was about a year before the bubble started blowing up, but there were lots and lots of small companies doing software.
I find these announcements interesting, but perhaps more interesting from a technology point of view but they do seem a bit like putting a V8 engine in a mini-cooper just to show off. They offer the following possible "uses":

Analyzing the behavior of nanomaterials through simulations and contributing to the early development of such next-generation semiconductor materials, particularly nanowires and carbon nanotubes, that are expected to lead to future fast-response, low-power devices.

Predicting which compounds, from among a massive number of drug candidate molecules, will prevent illnesses by binding with active regions on the proteins that cause illnesses, as a way to reduce drug development times and costs (pharmaceutical applications).

Simulating the actions of atoms and electrons in dye-sensitized solar cells to contribute to the development of solar cells with higher energy-conversion efficiency.
Simulating seismic wave propagation, strong motion, and tsunamis to predict the effects they will have on human-made structures; predicting the extent of earthquake-impact zones for disaster prevention purposes; and contributing to the design of quake-resistant structures.

Conducting high-resolution (400-m) simulations of atmospheric circulation models to provide detailed predictions of weather phenomena that elucidate localized effects, such as cloudbursts.

Which sound a bit squishy. I'd be interested to know what China's super has done since they showed pictures of it. Clay Dillow over at the Popular Science blog has been putting out snippets on various super computers under the titles "what are you working on now?" and it seems like a whole lot of nothing.

Franklin (#27) - http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/day-life-su...
Climate change modelling.

iForge (unranked) -http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-11/what-are-yo...
Doing fluid dyanmics (this is probably the most common thing)

Roadrunner (#10) - http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/roadrunner-...
Super sekrit weapons stuff. Which seems to be the most common use. (Is there like some sort of open source nuke simulator or something?)

Anyway, there are probably a dozen machines PopSci has looked at and I really am trying to get a sense of how they pay for themselves.
Well, I can work in any conditions, however I'm most creative (as in "original ideas" creative, not "see what others are doing and do it, too") when I'm motivated by something, not pushed by discipline.

It's hard to explain, but I believe his employees would take a job at Google or Apple (or heck, even Microsoft) any time of the day - if they really wanted to be pushed (not motivated) to their limits, they could've just joined the Navy :-).
Siri, Why Should Google and Microsoft Fear You?
You mean they use amazing high technology like a website, like 99% of businesses in the world now do?

You have to be kidding me. Not every company that has a website is a technology comapny. This is a wine company. They sell wine. They did not invent any technology or hack abnything. This isn't Techcrunch. We know the difference between Venture Capitalism and technology.
How are they forcing you?
Mmmm it reminds me of JSP :(
I've been pleasantly surprised by Google Drawings recently. It's like somebody took Omnigraffle and trimmed it down while also making it easier to share.
relevant: http://panoptikos.com
I use a speck black satin plastic case on my air, and you see nothing when it is powered off, but the logo shines through when on.
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Generally speaking, even though it probably feels unnatural and even dumb to have to think this way, if you have to frame a comment in terms of "Republican" and "Democrat", you're probably hurting the discourse on HN.

As it stands, I promise you there are many many conservative technologists who agree with your take on the patent system, but have wildly different takes on e.g. public sector unions and school choice.

(I'm not one of them; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. Ironically, I'm actually less sold on how horrible patent litigation is than most of my conservative friends.)

Speaking of judges --- and I thought your horse-race analysis was interesting, even if it made me queasy --- to the extent that there is really a such thing as a "Republican" or "Democrat" judge (as opposed to a liberal-leaning or conservative-leaning judge, or an "orthodox" or "reform-minded" judge) --- there are influential conservative judges who do not have knee-jerk pro-patent thoughts. What does Posner think about the patent situation?
Reading the latest news about IPOs. Great day to remember this video
I would advise to disable the software watchdog.
"Yaf is a PHP framework similar to zend framework, which is written in c and built as PHP extension" (http://code.google.com/p/yafphp/)
50% of proceeds is not cheap for businesses. Discounts off MSRP is often not a bargain for consumers.
I fail to see how coming to work at 9 and leaving at 5:30 would've failed the company. Having time to do relaxing stuff in the evening and get more sleep can help the brain unwind and foster clear thinking and creativity.
"You" started out plural. "Thou" was the singular version. Then "you" started being a form of respect, similar to the royal "we" or the Spanish "usted". Finally, we all became "you"s, sort of how we all became "sirs and madams" and "ladies and gentlemen" when those were originally a select class.

Anyway, "They" has been undergoing this process for a few centuries now, and I concur that it's time to embrace it.
ATBNews is just badly named. They write about more than just Business news so its an injustice to them criticize them for not listing only business news.