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"I propose a 'basic income' no strings attached"

Karl Marx would be happy to hear that. If you implement your idea then small fraction of society would use their free time to learn, read books, follow their passion or improve the world. Much larger fraction would concentrate on pleasant but much less challenging aspects of life like partying/booze/drugs/sex/good food/watching tv/browsing net. [Edit:spelling]
How's "WordPress To Jekyll And Back Again" working out for you?
I figure it probably just intercepts all click events, which usually trigger loads, hence "intercepting page loads".
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Have you looked into Titanium Mobile? http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-applica...
IPad demand said to be fading as competition heats up
Considering a filtering mechanism for both parts. If that ticks you off, fine. If not, let's talk.
Not looking to waste anyones time. I'm... volatile and hard to get along with with most people. Most, not all. Some actually pull through and manage while collecting their shredded nerves from the ground that I tap-danced on.
There are lots of great languages. I think we can learn from each other. Perl has a lot of problems but also a lot of strengths. CPAN is one of its strengths.

Compare CPAN:
https://metacpan.org/module/Moose::Manual

Then compare with other repositories from other languages:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1693529/list-of-top-repos...

CPAN does

* Documentation

* Historical versions of libraries

* Search

* Source code

* Integrated bug tracker

* Integrated review system

* Links to repositories

* Integrated automated tests regularly run against hundreds
of machines/operating systems/perl versions.
What will the ruthless cofounder be pitching? It's an app, but an app for what?
Counterfeits, possibly? I believe a lot of counterfeits are sold online and those companies might be interested in trying to get rid of those.
There's a video (I don't have the link handy) where a Facebook engineer says they actually had to make code modifications to MySQL to make it do what they want.

They're using the tool in a way that it wasn't designed to be used. Therefore it's probable that that there's an opportunity for specialized software to fill the role better.
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I can identify with this. However when I did my GCSEs and A-levels, a very large requirement of the project was the creation of a design spec and thorough documentation. The actual implementation was just one part, not the entirety.

That the kid in the story says he had to go back and comment his code suggests he fell into simple trap of getting so carried away with what he wanted to do that the other major requirements were left by the wayside.

I fell into the same trap when I wanted to do my database coursework with PHP and MySQL. I got so far in and realised that if I carried on, I'd never get the written work done. I did brilliantly in the exams, top marks in the class each time, but my desire to try and do something impressive brought my overall mark down. So I'm a web developer who got a C at A-level ICT.

Of course since it was nearly 6 years ago when I left sixth form, and 8 when I left secondary school, the curriculum might have changed.
Certainly not! Lack of understanding of the complete universe is why we don't know if God exists or not. We don't _now_ know how to define and measure love in the lab, so there are likewise probably other things that also cannot be measured and detected physically (at least at the present time).
Not a company yet. Will register as soon as payment parts are done.

And I can't seem to find what you are mentioning; http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'm 26 now, so this is ten years ago, but back then it was not uncommon for me or one of my friends to be the ones unofficially actually teaching the IT courses. I've heard the same story from others the same age as me.

I avoided ICT GCSE for exactly this reason - and did something "fun" instead (Music for anyone interested), but I've many friends who weren't so lucky.
Ask HN: Best way to learn iOS development in 2 weeks?
Hey Hacker News!

I am going to China for two weeks to take care of some family stuff, and wanted to make the best of my time there. I'd love to be able to come back with as much iOS development knowledge as possible.

People have talked a lot about free video tutorials, paid lessons, etc, I'm wondering what you guys think is the best option for me!

Also any great CSS/Design tutorials are welcome too :).

Thanks!
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No teacher worth a damn would fail a student for producing something well and truly good simply because they didn't understand it. What a waste.
Dependencies are hard to figure out automatically and a bit of a nuisance if you'd have to declare whether every plugin/script use has dynamic side effects. Considering that jekyll is a pretty small (and somewhat opinionated) system by default, it probably wasn't considered worth the effort.

And once you approach the level of a more typical WordPress site in both volume and information per page, I'm not sure how much effort you'd save. It's probably better to investigate how to make the general run time a bit faster. (Although it would probably be possible to have mostly static pages with few dependencies, then make the dynamic/dependent changes via a minimal web service and AJAX. At least when the load is too much for that, you'd still see the static content. Wouldn't be as generic/small as jekyll then, though.)
Tangentially related: the plumber program from UNIX R11^W^W Plan 9 makes programs work together by piping text around.
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/plumb

Again, there is more value in the connections than in the individual programs themselves.
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Sure, but if you had a bright student, and they wildly exceeded the assignment parameters, what would your response be? Nurture the student? Encourage their talent? Enlist them in mentoring?

Or mark the assignment wrong, return it unexamined, dismiss the effort.
Just signed up, but it's hard to figure out exactly what this is and what I'm supposed to do. Need to do a better job of explaining
Definitely. An awful lot of programming is "Take data from place A (in format 1) and place B (in format 2) do magic thing J to it and put it in location Z (in format 3)".

Process J is usually the simple bit - the hard bit is taking it from A and B, converting (1) and (2) so that they can be used together, dealing with all the different eventualities that can cause things to go wrong when fetching the data, parsing the data into (3) and then writing to Z (while dealing with all the things that can go wrong when writing to it).
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Grubers original Markdown implementation[1] comes with a blosxom plugin.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
Okay, cute, but the "Manhattan Grid" barely extends to lower Manhattan.
Content from FAQ's should be front and center once you register. Just a suggestion
I think you misunderstood what I meant.

The closest thing to a definition would be something that experiences Qualia, but then you'd ask me to define Qualia, and at this point I can't give an objective non-circular definition.

David Chalmers does a good job of explaining it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1Yo6VbRoo
That's assuming parents value their child's interest correctly rather than using their own set of assumptions about value.

For non-college education, it's almost a guarantee that the consumer of the education product is not the purchaser.
Higher IQ = go to college/ university = experimentation.
The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience
On the overuse of HTML5 and CSS3
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Good idea. Maybe on the right side. I could have it
Sums up my day job exactly with just many many more places to take data from.
The article says, "The iPhone 4S really sends raw audio data". At least for Siri, TtS occurs on the cloud - not sure where the text processing > API occurs though.
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We need vendors who want to sell their items on our platform.
And then accept payment digitally. Pretty much the most I feel like saying now. It's not that I am fearful and my billion dollar idea is so secrecy that barely I know about it. It's just that I'd like to say more to people who are sick of their jobs as consultant (moi) and want to move into a more product based work.
Get rid of debt / interest based money http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_and_crisis_civilization
And at the same time, our computers and other devices don't have significantly faster interactive response times. I find it a little depressing that my Android phone - which has a faster processor and more RAM than my first three PCs - still has interface lag. Just like cupboard space, computation expands to fit the available capacity.
Its a waste of a drone's time. But nurturing that 1-in-100 student can be a more powerful social effect than passing 99 adequate IT students.

There are other choices. Help them move to the CS track. Get them mentors outside of school. Suggest further reading or activities.

But to just drop them a failing grade and ignore them? That's the act of a drone.
Bionic-software-and-programable-people
Technical people who look down on sales and marketing generally do not realize that just as in coding circles the FizzBuzz test shows a remarkable lack of coding ability in a large population of self-described "programmers", in sales and marketing circles the vast majority of people who self-describe as salesperson or marketer don't have the faintest idea of those respective activities.

To a first approximation, most programmers are barely FizzBuzz material, most sales people are order takers, and most marketers are brand buzzers.

Speaking as a programmer who learned enough sales and marketing to carve out a comfortable niche out in the market, there is a palpable difference between an order taker and a real salesman. It is comparable to say, watching Notch work and watching someone who can't cut FizzBuzz try to implement a stack data structure. I've learned enough sales and marketing to identify the salesmen "rock stars", or even the non-order takers.

A real salesman will hold complex deal variables and details in his head on the same order of complexity as most good programmers will handle in code. He is amazingly good at reading body language and over-the-phone voices, getting at the real concerns of sales objections put up by the customers in an startlingly short amount of time. He'll juggle all these inputs and transmogrify them into a combination that works for the sale, all on the fly in fractions of a second, without it breaking his composure or his speaking delivery. He doesn't look down on the technical people backing him, and instead pumps them for technical information, extracting what he needs to build the business case and relaying it back to the technical staff to make sure he got it right. If you follow him through the day, you'll notice he fills every moment with sales activity; whether he's cold calling or following up, he always has a list of customers to contact and touch in the minutes he has downtime at various points throughout the day, or he's reading up to prep for upcoming deals he anticipates. His day is typically highly structured, and he plans out his activities weeks and months in advance.

There are damn few of these salesmen, just as there are damn few Carmacks. Most of them are tied up pitching large, multi-million and up deals as this kind of talent and work ethic is immediately recognized in sales organizations and promoted or poached away, so I would posit that most programmers have never met such salespeople. When many programmers do meet them, they typically only see the "coal face" side of these sales people, the gladhanding tip-of-the-iceberg part. In much the same way that when a lot of people watch programmers at work, they seem to be "just" sitting and poking at a keyboard now and then.
Not to take away from the performance improvements and improved integration that this will bring to Firefox for Mobile, but this new UI means that almost all mobile add-ons will have to be rewritten or significantly updated. Granted, there are less than 200 add-ons that support Mobile, but I'm responsible for 5% of those, and the time it will take to update them to support the native UI might not be worth the effort.

(A similar situation occurred between Mobile 1.0 and 2.0, when browser UI and Web content were separated into their own processes, requiring any add-on that dealt with content to be updated. I still haven't finished all of those changes.)
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I always shudder when people say it is just a simple integration project. The arrows are the hardest part.
I actually am currently in the process of donation. I had been scheduled but the patient became too sick and I'm basically in a holding pattern at this point. I can confirm that the process for me involved no surgery or anesthesia and would not in the future either. It's a possibility but it's unlikely and you get to know which situation it is up front and can always opt-out at absolutely any step of the process.
> What are the chances of catching a disease from previous donor during this procedure?

Effectively zero, as onemoreact says.

The chance of becoming infected due to unsterile conditions or opportunistic infections is higher than zero, however. This page is the best I've been able to find so far:

http://www.livingdonorsonline.org/marrow/marrow5.htm

That page says you're taking about a 1 in 370 chance of serious complications:

> life-threatening complications for all marrow donors have been rare; there were 13 reported in 4,800 [0.27%, or one in 370] analyzed marrow donations.

edit: I found a small-n study that is very positive:

edit 2: I omitted the small-n study, because I found a much bigger one:

> The experience at a single institution in harvesting marrow for allogeneic transplantation on 1,270 occasions from 1,160 normal donors is presented in detail, together with an analysis of all the donor complications... Hospitalization time was three days or less for 99% of the procedures. Six donors had life-threatening complications; three of a cardiopulmonary and two of an infectious nature, and one cerebrovascular embolic episode. Significant operative site morbidity, usually transient neuropathies, occurred in ten procedures.

http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/64/3/630.s...

tl;dr: marrow donation carries about a 1% chance of any complications at all, and a .5% chance of life-threatening complications.
A computer is a tool, like a hammer. Have you used different hammers before? There are differences between different brands, and those differences are typically subtle. Computers are similar; they're mostly identical, and the differences between them (to the "consumer") is very subtle. If you buy your near-blind grandfather a 13" macbook for reading the news, yes, things will go badly. However, you don't need to look at the specs to know that.

I don't really know what your point is re: NAV.
You guys are full of shi*t. You actually believe that high IQ means more intelligent. And now you find an excuse to your drug use and say, "see, I use drugs because I'm smart". why don't you guys just admit that you guys are too weak minded and the only reason you use drugs is because you are too weak to a avoid peer presure.
In all honestly, it would be by removing virtually all business interests from politics. No corporate donations, no PAC's, extremely reduced effectiveness of lobbyists, etc...

Good luck getting politicians to bite the hand that feeds them.
That old-time startup religion
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The Death, Rebirth, Re-death, and Re-rebirth of Specs
Finding a technical cofounder
Hacker finds way to (re)use Emergency Broadcast System
> Lol, I've heard little kids ask that at church.

Did you happen to overhear any of them getting an answer? I'd love to read about how some church-going parents (guardians?) explain the omnipotence paradox to youngsters. In my experience, at least, I find that Jews treat the matter gracefully while managing to `uphold the faith', if you will.

> Never heard an adult seriously ask that though, usually just as a gag.

You don't know many Tooth Fairy Agnostics, do you?
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Microsoft’s Code Space combines Kinect, touchscreens for awesome meetings
There are some solid Markdown graphical text editors too, if you're into that sort of thing. Most of these allow you to preview your documents while writing them, which is a big plus.

I developed MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com) for Windows, and there's also Mou for Mac and Retext for Linux.
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Nice: found a sparkline generator at http://sandbox.kidstrythisathome.com/louis/ :

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I think it's the 60s, as the drumbeat of Vietnam was approaching, sparked by the assassination of both Kennedy brothers. The so-called End of Innocence for America, the Killing of Camelot. It's when we learned that dissent on even the highest pulpit will be silenced.

We were warned before then by Eisenhower in his final Presidential address, but the tail end of the 60s was likely when Americans started to realize that we could not stop the rush. Endless money and inscrutable power will be forever intertwined, from the Medici's silent rule of Italy to now, where a few million dollars donated to the policeman's union by JP Morgan can buy the emptying of Zuccotti park and put the kibosh on the months-long Occupy movement.
What I'm trying to say with this article is that designer's all over the world are trying to use CSS3 for things CSS3 isn't made for.
Canvas drawing in HTML5 could be a solution in the future because it gives you as a designer a lot of freedom. But the difficult part is that the more complex your designs in canvas become, the better your knowledge of javascript should be. I think this will create a gap between designers who code and designers who use WYSIWYG applications in the future.

What do you think? Do you think HTML5 with its limitless possibilities will overtake CSS in the long rung? And therefor creating two categories of designers. Those who code and those who use Dreamweaver-like applications?
Sounds like a good balance is best. RSS for specific, infrequent blogs and twitter for the mass news. This is where I have found myself lately. I have dropped all feeds that post more than 3 or 4 times a day other than HN. If I could get a more refined feed from HN (just stuff that makes it to the front page), I would be even happier.
Harnessing thousands of wetware processors executing trained expert systems, for a news filter? Not giving up, to use Hacker News.
Intel 4004, world’s first commercial microprocessor, celebrates 40th birthday
I must have missed the original thread in which this idea was proposed. Anyone have a link?
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Nothing, if you are not a philosophical dualist.
Umm....and it's a terrible, terrible tragedy to accidentally see an awful web page once.

With something that blocks scripting, you don't need to worry about a site infecting your browser/computer. If the site is covered with ads, then close the window, and it's gone. Then downvote it on HN or Reddit or where ever you found it.
Just marry a technical writer. Works for me! Except when I forget to ask her...
A crawler is not necessarily providing content to a classical search engine, as it can serve many purposes. Ultimately such crawlers may generate links to your website and while not bringing you too much referrals traffic, it may increase your ranking, which ultimately means more traffic from Google.

Also, if search engine referrals is all you're interested in, if Google drops you from their index, your website might as well not exist, right? As I said, be careful not to throw the baby with the bathwater. Google is not what made the web great, but a Google dependency might break it and website authors can be blamed for this.
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I don't agree -

You look at the CPU and GPU specs to see how fast a game will run, not something like Siri. You look at the storage to see how many MP3s you can fit on there, not how many calendar entries.

Sure, a lot of the applications are moving to the cloud, but I never really expected the specs to make much difference to the speed of simple applications anyway (well, if they do in this day and age, something is seriously wrong).
Part 2: Microsoft’s journey to the next generation (part 2)
"Yeah, meanwhile Z is temporarily unavailable and by the time it's available again, the data from A and B is no longer consistent, so you have to re-query again, ouch, your pointers to last read data on A are no longer valid anymore and yeah, we forgot to tell you this little funny thing about B... <the dramatic music in the background pauses here>" - this is what you should be thinking when looking at a small arrow drawn on a whiteboard.
I like the idea very much! I recommend you also try founder2be.com
You are missing the two way communication that is impossible with URL handlers. A URL handler can only transmit information in one way and cannot do that implicitly. The user has to click on that link.
There's a popular Wordpress plugin which does something similar called WP Super cache.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
In short, why is FB so important? There are phones, emails, twitter and a whole lot of other means of communication.

As best I can tell, people use it because people use it.

Hell, even the various #occupy$foo groups, while railing about privacy violations and Goldman-Sachs use FB.

Many, many people are OK with freely compiling a dossier of their life and associations to be sold to advertisers.

Many, many people who aren't OK with that are still OK with allowing convenience to trump principles.
The I need a co-founder threads are usually tolerated because many time they can become interesting. The general theme has been to try to filter down the "I need to hire a developer" or "I need a job threads".
Far more important the the GHz, RAM or VRAM size or HDD size is the construction of the machine (especially for laptops). That's where I'd spend the time doing the research. Dell uses cheap plastic, HP has shiny screens, Lenovo has magical alloy stuff they make the backing from, Apple sometimes uses aluminum for its cases.

Picking out a laptop is not like buying a car, but it's not a soft drink either. It's more like picking out clothing. Yes, quality is important, but you also want it look and feel nice and feel that it's not going to let you down (think stain resistant cloth, wrinkle free shirts, ties that go with everything, etc).
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Fun with 2D transformations and JavaScript
This will greatly simplify trips between NY and my home in MN: "Driver, drop me off at the corner of 6,593 Ave and S 2,265 St."
What does my Karma need to be to get a down vote link? People use drugs for a lot of reasons, Correlation != Causation comes to mind here.
I would prefer my friends to stick to real names ...

Define real.
I've quickly looked at the link, read the reviews here, and there's actually no description of what spark _is_. I gather is an UTF-8 graph generator.