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Small aside here:

Li-ion tech is a major pain in my ass. Storing them discharged damages them. Storing them charged damages them. Keeping them topped off damages them. Fully discharging them damages them but your battery might have a protection circuit so don't worry about it. But it might not so worry about it. You've apparently got to store them half-charged for optimal lifetime but there is a lot of wrong information out there.

I think I want to power my devices with disposables, thanks :-)
I seem to recall there being an HN post about people doing this same concept and they just ended up with their accounts being unable to share files.
In terms of their industry - no company does as well with social networking games. It piggybacked on Facebook's success before Facebook made it more difficult to become very successful in that area.
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Where can I watch the archived recording of today's SOPA hearing?
That is irrelevant as the average NYT reader is not the target of this ad. This ad is a letter to the people listed in the first line, delivered to them via the NYT. Unlike a letter which will be handled by an intern this letter will be read directly by the congressmen it is addressed to, and by spending the money for the full page ad they express who serious they are about this.
You realize you are still working a clock in the field. It's called the sun.
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Is anybody using the Pyramid framework?
Hello. I have used django and wanted to take a look at the pylons framework to see how it differs. But i see it seems to have reached its "end of life" and now the main focus of that project is something called Pyramid. Which has been out for about 10 months now.

So im wondering if anybody has used it and what their experience has been with it.

Thanks!
You can't "sit on" patents. The whole point of the patent system is to get an idea out there so people can use it. As a patent holder you're required to license your invention for a reasonable amount (I'm not really sure how that's determined - probably in court). If you don't, a judge can put your invention in the public domain and give you nothing.

The stories you hear about the 300 mpg carburetor and machines that produce power from the spin of electrons? These devices, if they actually existed, would have to be bought and hidden away without ever entering the patent system. And the buyer (oil companies, is it?) would have to take the chance somebody else would patent the invention for which he paid millions.
I love Instapaper, but it's especially interesting that Marco has been able to compete against larger groups like Readability and Apple's Reading List. I'm afraid it might be inevitable that he gets swamped by a constant stream of competitive features, unless Instapaper expands beyond 1 employee.
I hope the project is of use to someone out there. Best of luck on your next project!
I don't see there being that much overlap other then maybe counting towards storage and maybe uploading using the Drive client.
Totally agree with boredom is a choice.
My parents don't believe in boredom... if you say you're bored, there's always housework, books to read, things to do. It's just a question of what you want to do.
You realize, I hope, the chief proponent of this bill claims to be a proponent of 'limited government': As the federal government gets bigger and bigger, one wonders if the proponents of government health care and cap and trade have read the Constitution? Upholding his oath to defend the Constitution, Congressman Smith believes that government must be limited so that it never becomes powerful enough to infringe on the rights and liberties of individuals.
I had to read a couple comments in this thread before I even understood what "this" was/is. I think I would have recognized what the "this" phenomenon was if I had come across it in a number of hn posts.

I can not recall ever seeing it in a thread and I read hn somewhat frequently. The only thing I can think of is that there is a certain subculture that uses "this" and that I do not read the stories that this subculture is interested in. Does anyone have any examples?
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Why do you assume it's not as safe as gas? Gas has a similar energy/m3 profile.

And not everyone cares whether it works at thirty below. Most places don't get that cold.
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Did you look in the help? I can't say for sure that it was in there then, but searching the help for "eject" on my Mac today gives several different ways to eject a DVD, and I would think that this would have been available before as well.
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Which is fine. Lots of things in the world are uneconomic.
I can't get behind pre-commit hooks.

1) Sometimes (usually the worst times) you just need to check something in, maybe it doesn't pass pep8 but when service is down nobody gives a shit.

2) Instead of promoting thinking and caution it promotes attitude of "hey check it in and see if it sticks".

Post commit hooks that report broken tests, poor code, etc preferable to whole team are far superior. After first couple of times being shamed people will actually look over their code, run tests, run pep8, etc to verify the commit isn't bogus.
So when is Google Music going to be added to the Data liberation page? https://plus.google.com/settings/exportdata I would really hate to have all my songs be held hostage in Google Music.
Yea, programmers are not dumb automatons that should be motivated by fear.
I might be wrong, but isn't Instapaper is using the Readability's technology to process HTML and make it more readable? (http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/).
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Headlights, my friend.

The idea that farmers work by the sun must be from some place with a different climate, because around here, most of the field work is done during the late afternoon into night. Rarely does any field work get done in the morning. The conditions are often not favourable.

But if I am really tired and want to shut down for the night, I will do so. It's all up to me, not someone else.
No, it uses a custom scraper written by Marco. I've found that both of them work better on some pages and worse on others.

(However, I do believe the "Safari Reader" feature of iOS 5 and Safari 5 does use Readability to extract the contents.)
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It was unclear to me whether you're saying you don't want to use non-Apple hardware, or that you don't want to use Windows, or whether you're referring to a combination of those two.

Though Apple continues to use 'PC' in their marketing, it's an obsolete term. Macs are running on the same hardware these days, and you can run Mac OS on 'PC' hardware. You can run Linux on Apple hardware, and Windows on Apple hardware. So, it's a bit muddled.

I assume by 'PC' you mean 'anything besides OSX on Apple hardware'. Okay. Personally I also run Linux on my MBP... not sure where that fits in.
If you had data indicating what Ken Jennings' reaction time was, you could probably calibrate Watson to roughly match that.
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It comes down to two things: economics and computer science, in that order.

For most companies, diving deep into your data persistence layer is probably not worth it in the beginning. Your devs need to work on features. (MS SQL does pretty well untuned.) This is the economics part.

The computer science part comes in when you are doing enough traffic that 200 hours of dev time toward a 10% performance improvement becomes good economics. Then you dig into the data layer (and every other layer) and start counting milliseconds.

Which is what we did at Stack O by using Dapper and renting Brent Ozar. :)
I'm in the minority, however I actually like it. It's not perfect, but I don't seem to find the fact that they're using UIWebView nearly as "unusable" as everyone else does.

My only complaint is that the push notifications don't let you show a banner, and they don't seem to be showing up in the Notifications Center or Lock Screen. All that happens is I get a sound and a badge.
"You seem to think that the entire mobile platform runs iOS."

It's silly to assume that someone on HN would be unaware of the players in the mobile marketplace.

Adobe themselves said that Apple's move to block them proved to be the clincher: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2011/11/11/clarifications-o...

Quote: "This one should be pretty apparent, but given the fragmentation of the mobile market, and the fact that one of the leading mobile platforms (Apple’s iOS) was not going to allow the Flash Player in the browser, the Flash Player was not on track to reach anywhere near the ubiquity of the Flash Player on desktops."
Example: the progress bars Gmail uses when you add several attachments in quick succession.
Hardly. I use ClickToPlugin to improve general website performance which breaks Google Music, and I have to completely disable it to use the Google Music web player.

As a result, 100% of my Google Music use is now on my iOS device through the 3rd party gMusic app. It's so obnoxious to offer only the Flash version considering they already coded and offer an HTML5 player, just not to desktops.
A lot of the time, the size of the fine (or the prison sentence) is a function of the probability of being caught.

As an example, let's say the economic gain of a single instance of movie piracy is $25, only 1% of all pirates are caught, and the cost of prosecuting someone is $1,000. So you charge a $250,000 fine, and that gets people's attention. Economists talk about indifference curves in place of regular price curves.
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Not relevant as those products aren't run by the Android team.
Having actually played against Watson, it certainly feels unfair when you've got a response you're 100% sure of on the tip of your tongue but you have to wait several long seconds for the question to be read. All the while you're desperately aware that Watson's reaction time is always 100 ms and yours ranges from 50-200 ms.

It is interesting to watch machines encroach on things we once considered exclusively human mental abilities. In the early days processors just multiplied large numbers faster than we could. Then they beat a grandmaster at chess and now a machine is definitely better at Jeopardy.
There are 3rd party apps, though. Try gMusic for iOS, it's pretty good.
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Your argument demands an obviously immoral crime in order to work. You used shoplifting because everyone agrees that is immoral. You are begging the question.

If you replaced shoplifting with cannabis possession then the line "If everyone started smoking pot, for example, it wouldn't indicate a problem with the laws that people are now criminals" isn't nearly true. In fact, you could argue that alcohol is legal, while cannabis is not, is entirely because everyone does it.
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Does anyone have a good example of this actually happening? I can think of countless small companies that were shuttered soon after a much larger company horned in on their business.

I can't think of a single example of a company that actually became more popular and relevant when the same thing happened.
A lot of imaginations among the announcements between Instapaper and Readability.
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Having recently lead a round of interviewing, I wish that I could be convinced that your kinder interpretation was true.

But under moderate questioning, most interviewees don't hold up well.
> thousands of philosophers, scientists, educators, theologians, statistics, anecdotes, discussions, and so on.

So, how about citing some of them?

I am crying out for data, because only by the truth represented by data can we make informed decisions. All else is blowing in the wind, gibbering tones of madness based on personal biases and opinions.

further edit:

I specifically asked for citations to demonstrate the validity of this claim:

Nobody wants to admit that the concept of "school" itself was designed to church out assembly line slaves.
It's not a surprise that when the system is designed to turn humans into robots... that's what you get.
Anyone who comes out of school with useful skills does it despite school, not because of school. John Taylor Gatto figured this out years ago.

In particular, this is an assertion of design, ie, that it was designed. I am saying, "Let's have more information", that is, references to thinkers who have advocated the effect of your quote.

Specifically, I am requesting a demonstration, a proof of these (relatively controversial) claims besides mentioning Gatto. You have refused to provide these so far.

This is not a personal opinion position paper I am poking holes in. I am poking at the need for demonstratable truth to your claim.
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We manage everything. We hold their hand through the initial paperwork for company registration with Apple. They never deal with Xcode. Services like TestFlight are really their only point of interaction pre-App Store.

For financials, developers can be given only development level privileges.
I happened to buy today's NYT, as I often do. I find it nice to go offline and hold a physical paper.
wow, and this didn't even touch on Evernote's Clearly. Busy day in the 'easy mobile reading' space.
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To me it looks like the increasing popularity of AOP and richer (or at least more functional) syntax in languages like Ruby, the relative ubiquity of property chaining and two-way data binding across different frameworks, is moving towards a more semantic type of software specification where structures and relationships are more important.

I think that's pretty obviously a good thing since it reduces the cyclomatic complexity, coupling, amount of code, and increases reuse, although you can obviously take it a little far when you are actually using a mostly imperative paradigm.

I think this is one of the types of things that is going to (eventually someday) finally wake people up to the limitations of unstructured (although colorful) ASCII source editing.
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> The amount of radiation exposure is really quite small compared to the amount you'd receive on the actual flight.

Except that you get it in a milliseconds, instead of over a period of several hours. I get a lot of sunshine in a day (haha who am i kidding i'm a programmer, but humor me), but ask an ant what its like to get the equivalent energy in a few seconds.
Or for a more concrete example, see the Volstead Act and Prohibition.
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Have you ever tried searching/labeling/filtering large amounts of email in Gmail? I did last week, and it was pretty frustrating.
But if it's just a 1 person company he can afford to stay small and still be highly profitable.

Additionally Readability has stated that they're still figuring out their business model, where as Marco has had a steady income for a long time now. It's entirely possible that Readability vanishes in a few years and Instapaper is still around.
What evidence do you see that being a one-man operation is hurting his business? As far as I can tell Instapaper is still leading the field in features and quality...
been using gmail via exchange activesync since they offered it...you can have your cake and eat it too.
And I suppose you don't give give your email when you want to post anonymously even it says it won't be published? That's what Wordpress does by default isn't it? I think that's what Disqus also does but it isn't clear. You don't divulge people's information without explicit authorization. Filling in the name field for me is not good. Maybe anonymous is the wrong word. I didn't want my stuff published for the world to see.

Now that I go back to it, I see that it links to my twitter account and provides my first name. I was thinking that just showing my first name would only be kind of bad, turns out I was remembering it incorrectly. It is as bad as I thought it was.
The only mention of thyroid cancer in that article was a single study of cobalt-60 exposure (unknown levels).

The point is, everyone here is getting all worked up over uSv exposure, when after they get on the plane, they are exposed to several thousand fold levels of radiation.
I disagree, for a number of reasons.

1. I don't agree with the statement "shoplifting is necessarily immoral" so it makes no sense for my own argument to hinge on such a fact.
2. My argument does not only work for an immoral crime; it is merely illustrated by an example of a law people think is not wrong. Shoplifting is merely a counterexample to the logic "If X is a law that a lot of people break then X is a bad law". I do not take this on to conclude that X is not a bad law which would be begging the question.
3. The original logic was begging the question, not I. The statement "If X is a law that a lot of people break then X is a bad law" only holds if X is already a priori a bad law (and, even then, it requires a few more statements to actually work).
Well, that's not how it would happen of course. It's actually worse than you think. If the law were used like you propose, there would be a massive outcry to the point that it would have to be invalidated. Instead, it will be selectively enforced, like everything else these days, in the interest of maintaining power and control for the parties that have purchased this law from their government.

Of course, in ten years time it could have an industry-wide chilling effect much like the DMCA, however in the meantime that will not happen. That's not how you introduce creeping, malicious legislation, and the folks responsible for this know that, of course.
The reason I don't develop my ViewText any further is that the barrier to entry for this is just to low. Marco already has an excellent app, now reability will enter his market, along with Apple.

Here's an example:
http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marco.org%2...
The "Reader" button appears to be a fork of Readability (http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/08/think-safari-re...)

Also of note, the original Readability was actually "partly inspired by" instapaper (http://lab.arc90.com/2009/03/02/readability/)
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I'm usually less brash and assertive when I'm not making inebriated offhand comments on the internet. Honesty and confidence can go a long way in building trust if backed with demonstrated knowledge, though.

In my experience, clients are usually pretty good at providing rationale for their requests, so my implied scenario is a bit of hyperbole. Often when the topic of legacy browsers comes up, it's because the client has been in the process of having a website made before, and is relieved to discover that the technology has moved forward since then.
Agreed. From a casual observer's perspective Readability seems to have failed at a good idea and is now switching direction with no clear goal.

Evernote, however, has a pretty clear business model.
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Some instances?
Bottom posting in email?
There are times when I'm conversing on a web mailing list & would like to bottom post so the conversation is easier to read. Is this possible/easy in GMail and/or Outlook?
> Shoplifting is merely a counterexample to the logic "If X is a law that a lot of people break then X is a bad law"

Perhaps if 90% of the population shoplifted, then any law against shoplifting would be bad. What is missing from the question is why the majority of the population would shoplift.
It's a good point, and one I expect most people have heard quite a few times. However, interviewees probably either don't have a job or aren't doing well with the one they have. As such, I suspect you're likely to get a larger % of the mediocre than you might see elsewhere in the industry.
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if that's the case, then are you suggesting the fines should be bigger, since 46% of the population doesn't seem to care about the current fines?
I guess it's weird that I often instapaper pages I've readability-ed?
Have to give the author (and Williams!) credit - that's a damned neat developing style to my mind. As always, running into it when a client is yelling down the phone would be painful, but it is interesting to consider. Certainly it's a strange approach with virtues, unlike much of the beyond-spaghetti you sometimes run into.
Have you ever considered the possibility that your or any other person's agreement with a given comment simply isn't valuable information?
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Google and Microsoft have a huuuge list of projects they jumped into, and failed, leaving the competition stronger than before. All sorts of half-baked apps and ideas - from Google Knols to Microsoft Frontpage.

(Yeah, okay, Adobe isn't exactly a small company. But they're a lot smaller than Microsoft, but Dreamworks has consolidated its position, and Microsoft killed off Frontpage...)
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What do you consider DBA level skills? Because you mention in one case people using SELECT * where they only needed a small subset of the fields. I'm all for your message that everyone should be aware of the database, but I don't consider that a DBA level mistake. I've just worked with some astonishingly good DBAs before, and I while I'm not a slouch it would be impossible to catch up with them without years of intensive study.

Anyway, I'm splitting hairs. Your presentation was great, and the people at SO are very impressive overall. Thanks for posting it.
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