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"I'm either going to be one of the first to be able to outrun cancer like this, or I'm going to be one of the last to die from it,"

What made Jobs think that a cure was close? I've seen nothing to indicate that we aren't decades away from curing cancer.
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> You seem to have no idea how hard it is to make mobile hardware.

I do, trust me. That's why I value highly the knowledge of how not to make a mobile phone. Like I said, most WinMo phones are lessons on what not to do - styluses, resistive touchscreens (agreed there was a time capacitive touch didn't exist) hard-to-use multitasking and an inflexible, hard to customize OS (I felt that pain too, but, luckily, Windows CE was almost ready to run on our hardware).

There is, indeed, a ton of work involved and zillions of ways things can (and often do) go wrong, but, luckily, you don't have to build Windows Mobile phones to learn that. The Nokia folks, for instance, always had top notch hardware and never built a WinMo phone.
I don't think GitHub is planning to nor should compete in that market. The Jekyll/blog hosting stuff has been a neat side effect and I am glad that GitHub hasn't gone out of their way to prevent that type of use but I'm sure they have no desire to be a blog engine.
Are nuclear bombs good? Do the heads of our national security agencies take technologies that could potentially kill the whole world's population and, because they, like every other executive in the world, are an MBA-types, sell it to whoever they happen to meet at a cocktail party? You may not be a teenager, but I can't say that you aren't a troll.
Agreed, "gimmeh teh" is lolcats idiocy instead of a professional tool. I'm embarrassed to have it up on my monitor in a work setting.
i'm pretty sure i read somewhere that the overlap in the "dealing with licensing" department was the problem. publishers were using netflix's diversity as a mark against them in negotiations, and the streaming unit could get better deals if they didn't have to be responsible for the DVD unit.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/stop-e-para...

https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?...;
Well my point is that "free market" will destroy "free market". The idea is an unsustainable model because once a winner emerges politics gets involved. I do not deny the fact that government involvement can help sustain a monopoly, but my point is that the creation of a monopoly starts with the free market.
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I'm not advocating that GitHub should compete in the blog space. This is more of a convenience request for the sake of making the most out of GitHub Pages.
Wow, surprising that these big sites have this much downtime. Who's running the show at these places?
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>In other industries, such as petroleum refining, pipelines and nuclear power, their are structured methodologies for determining root causes.

I don't see why they would need a domain-specific methodology. Toyota gave us the 5 Whys, which applies nicely to just about any kind problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
When you take yourself out, you take other people out too psychologically - relatives and close friends. Is that your right, and would you check with them beforehand? And what of the people you might have helped or saved had you lived?

If you have the right to your own life, then do you have any obligation to other people's lives? Also, how do you know you own yourself: did you create yourself or did your parents? And who created them? Would you ask your creator if it's okay to suicide, and then would you be open to answers?

Lastly, are you sure you die when you die: how do you know the pain won't go on someplace else?

From my reading, suicide thought is a transient state but with permanent consequences if acted upon.

Also, the best way to fix your mind, is to fix your body, rather than destroy it.
Generally large structures like this are related to mining as that is a process that can take large swaths of land and convert it into a few hundred thousand tons of the 'good stuff.'

That being said, the old MX silos could be seen from space but they were pretty clearly revetments and launchers connected by rail lines. Generally large infrastructure often gives away its intent which is why modern despots prefer building everything underground.
I suspect the extortion fee Microsoft imposed on them was discounted because of their support for WP7.
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You have $200. You can spend it on whatever you want. How would you drive traffic most effectively? Content site OR web application.
What about the plenty of advertisers who are running aggressive campaigns (minus the scams) and are still seeing positive ROIs.
Previous HN submission with lots of comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3232435
So.. The great firewall of America, Seems only 2 years ago when Obama was defending the freedom of the internet.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1939572,00.htm...

I'm surprised that there isn't a huge rally on sites like 4chan and reddit which would be hit the most..
If you want to disable it in Firefox, you can go to about:config and set the pref for full-screen-api.enabled to false.

I'm not sure if Chrome has a similar way to disable the feature.
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Some websites and applications require you to allow third party apps to run their applications; and if those websites can get a seasoned computer user to change the setting, I imagine a less legitimate site could encourage the less informed to do the same.

I'm looking at you, GrooveShark.
> I think the difference here is, and I don't think this is a subject that has been thought about quite enough, is that mathematics typically describe calculation, while code describes a superset of calculation, computation.

This statement is correct, but probably not for the reason you think it is.

The set of math proofs is isomorphic to the set of programs that terminate [1].

There are useful non-terminating programs (operating systems, for example), but all of the useful CS theory lies in the common subset. Data structures can completely described in math, including mutable ones.

[1] See the Curry-Howard isomorphism.
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Someone needs to write a pattern matching algorithm to compare the voronoi-looking image to the street layout of various cities. Seems like it would be a 1:1 representation, given the size.

Dunno what that would indicate, but the results may be interesting...
Man, your story makes me want to go to this "Young Researchers Centre" so badly. Congratulations to this awesome project! Talking about education and competitiveness projects like these are going to be the pillars for our future.
Yes, data centers are more complex than Nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants generally operate in well-known ways and with few unknown interactions.

eg.
the work load on a nuclear power plant system does not spike around Christmas

the work load on a nuclear power plant system does not change when there is a video spreading virally

the nuclear power plant control system does not have to support a diverse eco-system of clients, some of them running hostile code.

the nuclear power plant control system does not need to be upgraded very often

Modern data centres and the infrastructure that runs on them operate in an environment of constant flux, this makes them vastly more complicated than a nuclear power plant system.

Nuclear power plants have a vast number of components and a few very catastrophic failure modes but in essence they're very simple. The components don't change (save for the well known ways in which metal degrades under neutron bombardment), and lots of money has been invested to know exactly how these components act under various stresses. The engineers who operate them operate the same system for years and years becoming experts on how their very well defined system operates and know intimately its exact failure modes, and have a SOP manual and various checklists to quickly pinpoint and eliminate problems.

Nuclear power plants are also developed and operated under a very clear singly focused mandate: Prevent at any cost the Nuclear Power plant from entering a catastrophic failure mode.
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Doubt it. It's not uniform, there's no central tower, and retired jets would be a damn weird solar array component. My money would be on a radar or blast test site that's been abandoned.
Sounds like a weak effort to respond to an actual customer service problem with vague statistics, meaningless slogans, and one less than shining anecdotal review. Plus, I don't know why a company as big as google thinks it's ok to only provide mediocre support to only business customers. It's not like all the free product users are doing something wrong, or even aren't benefiting google. We all know it's a numbers game these days and it's the free users who give google the numbers.

What ever happened to "asking for help"?

What ever happened to answering the distress signal?
If you return null, there is no way to discern between invalid input data and 'null' as input.

If you return null for 'null' as input and undefined for invalid data, then you don't have to look at the input again to check whether you just failed to parse json or whether the input was just 'null'.

if (HypotheticalJSON.parse(input) === null && input.trim() != 'null'){ alert('invalid input'); }

instead of just

if (HypotheticalJSON.parse(input) === undefined){ alert('invalid input'); }

Though as I said in my comment, I do believe throwing an exception to be a valid action here - at least in any other environment than server-side JS where you have to be a bit careful.
I'm not sure this is good advice. I have no experience of this kind of thing, but it seems to me that cutting yourself off from everybody who cares about you is one of the worst things you can do. Now you have no money, no friends, no family, and nothing to stop you when you next start to feel like jumping off a cliff.

It sounds like a good start to a story, but bad real-world advice.

I had an ex-gf who worked on a suicide hotline, and apparently one of the most powerful things they had in their arsenal were questions like "Who do you think would find your body?" and "How do you think it would affect them?" and other encouragements for suicidal person to think about how their suicide would affect those around them. If you're backpacking alone in Africa, having taken your leave from everybody in your life two months ago, it seems like there'd be a lot less to keep you.
Email is not a good way to reach your Congressman. They get too much of it to address, and most of it is automated. Call, send a letter, or visit in person.
Is this page new as of this past week [edit: its new as of today]? Either way, every large software project should always try to have some standard page for this sort of information, so kudos to them for now having one (and its a visible link on the homepage too).
it's new.
Try switching to "Map" view (vs. "Satellite" view) -- the whole region around that huge facility was a big lake. Did they suck it dry?

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.42761,90.793762&...
Depends on your vertical. Bing has about 15% share of search and with Yahoo that percentage is around 30%. It's definitely worth exploring, but it is worth noting that keyword match types are implemented differently so you can't just copy/paste your campaigns over from Adwords like you used to.
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If I'm understanding correctly, the request may be in the context of blog-like usage, but the function is of much more general applicability.

I think he's just asking for the ability to create a new file from scratch in github's web interface.
>>Plus, I don't know why a company as big as google thinks it's ok to only provide mediocre support to only business customers.

In Levy's 'In The Plex' it boiled down to Page not really thinking the cost of support came close to the benefit.
He is joking people. And it is a good one. :-)
Though the MDN docs are down right now check out the replaceState method. It allows to write over the url (on the same domain) without creating a new history object. This is a textbook example of where using replaceState would make sense.
you have a romanticized idea of depression.
Speaking at events is part of his job.
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The problem is not that they have a monopoly on mobile (having a monopoly is not illegal), but that they are using their monopoly of desktop operating systems to exert pressure on competitors in another market (via the FAT "requirement" - because if you don't use FAT your gizmo won't work with 90%+ of the computers sold). This can be interpreted as abusing a monopoly.

Another way to see it is that Microsoft is one of the richest companies on Earth because of their monopolies and when they use their prodigious resources to force companies to cave instead of litigate (because they could easily litigate said companies out of existence) it's an indirect abuse of monopoly.

This is what I though on about 5 minutes. There's probably a whole lot more in there waiting for more dedicated brains.
Great, if I had enough space I would build one.
Alias ls="ls -1 -c -t | less"
The idea is:

turn yourself into a human LRU cache for filenames. Whenever you enter a directory and ls, you see a sorted, fullscreen, scrollable list of the files you used in that dir recently, which are probably the ones you want to see again!

Breakdown:

"-c -t" sort by time last changed
"-1" to ease reading
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Hey, I'm one of the protest organizers. Here's how it affects non-US citizens:

1) Links to any blacklisted site will get removed from US search engines, directories, and maybe even blogs through lawsuits. Google, Twitter, maybe even HackerNews.

2) Your non-US site can get blocked to all US users (ouch) and lose most of its search / social traffic (see #1)

3) Non-US sites can get cut off from US-based payment processors and advertisers. This will push sites you use into bankruptcy, and discourage others from starting.

4) Hollywood and (I'm ashamed to say it) US trade representatives and embassies will be busy convincing other countries to pass similar laws. If this law passes, that process goes better.

5) Countries that want cover for their own internet censorship regimes will be able to say "The US does it". Russian politics in particular loves these (sometimes false, sometimes not) equivalencies as excuses for anti-democratic measures.

As for how you can prevent it, if your run a site or product with content in English, your site has American visitors, potentially lots of them. Same goes for just spreading the word on social networks.

Participate in American Censorship Day and direct them to call their reps!
While I might enjoy the convenience, the way I stock my fridge just isn't a constant datapoint. If there are no eggs in my fridge, it might be because I don't want any eggs for a while, not because I didn't think of buying any.

To solve this, you'd need human interaction etc. etc. and you soon arrive at a point where you just stock the frigging thing yourself anyhow. For a one-household effort, this really doesn't warrant the effort.

A different story could be approaching it as some sort of communal effort, say the combined amount of fridges in one multi-story house or student dorm. If you could plan your meals /assisted/ by your fridge and it could tell you that the guy next door has eggs that are free, you wouldn't need to buy a whole carton just because you want to bake a cake, thus possibly reducing waste.

In the end, this puts us back to the old privacy implications versus efficiency problem that remains largely unsolved.
We can't even get people to leave a copy of the appliance manuals when they move.

/waiting for new fridge to be delivered, no thanks to previous owner.
Having lived in Italy and the US I can tell you there is a cultural divide that makes these verses very hard to grasp that side of the Atlantic. This translation in English is beautiful though
>"Placing the licensing fee for these patents at the same cost as licensing WP7 seems: 1) extremely anti-competitive and 2) unreasonable."

[IANAL]

To me, equivalent pricing seems to be plausibly consistent with the fair market price of a mobile operating system which incorporates Microsoft technology... [edit] at least from the perspective of a lawyer representing Microsoft.[/edit]

It is hard to argue that Microsoft is placing Android at a disadvantage relative to WP7 when the price is equal since this allows Android to compete upon its technical merits and any perceived market advantage the brand provides.
My understanding is that NORAD can withstand megaton hits so long as they are > 1 mile away. With modern technology, it seems unlikely that NORAD would be missed by a full mile.
Not trying to provoke you and yes, it'd be easier that way - just trying to make a point.

But you are, apparently, not really convinced. Otherwise you'd see what's at stake here and a ten-second google search wouldn't stop you from donating, to say the least.
A basic (true-to-original) wiki will hyperlink every CamelCase word. That is too complex?
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Creating new files from the web-based editor is a little feature that should really be there.

There's another good use-case, which I've suggested to them: Their "We recommend adding a README..." message could just link to a markdown editor, making it really easy to put up some documentation.
I'd prefer ones that warn you when they get too warm via text message. Might not do anything if the power went out, but if the door was slightly ajar, it'd be a lot better to get an alert than to have all your ice cream melt and your meat thaw.

Oh, and they should start putting windows in the doors so that people don't stand there with the door open, thinking about what to eat.

I'm pretty sure all of that is trivial for a good engineer to wire up these days. Though if we ever had a 'smart' enough fridge, I could also see people integrating things with the various social dieting apps or whatever.
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I don't think a Haskeller should try to use point-free code. It's just that if you're refactoring your code and you get it down to the point that you've got

thing x = th . in . g x

you might as well finish the job and take the x out. What's left should make sense to you if you follow this process and just let it happen. But I feel no shame when I can't go pointfree, especially when pointfree requires crazy hacks to simulate a simple pattern match.
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Monopolies do exist, especially in developing countries. And they tend to control prices when no competition is around. The only reason why monopolies are no longer as dominant in the United States and the West is because of the outlawing of monopolistic practices like hoarding or selling products below costs to kill off smaller competitors. Again I don't deny that government involvement sustains monopolies but monopolies are first created by the free market, and then they kill that very free market that brought them to the top. I think we should do away with campaign contributions and go straight with public financing.
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Perhaps in a similar vein, I use `alias new='ls -ltr | tail'` Lets me quickly see what files in a directory were just added. Useful for ~/downloads/, tarballs that didn't create their own directory, and whatnot.
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Still, you should say something, and tell him how this will impact you. While he is a co-sponsor, that doesn't mean you can't add your voice.
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I started down this path before they even added Ace to the site.

My idea was a little bit different: I would drop in a single file to my Jekyll repo that adds a "Create a new post" page on my blog. There is a text field with a live markdown preview and a "Commit" button that would make the calls (via javascript) to the Github API to create a new commit in the repository. This commit triggers the hooks that rebuild the blog.

The main hurdle was authentication, since Github OAuth doesn't support any client-side flows (which is understandable since it's not a completed spec, to my knowledge). So I would have to pass my user/pass in everytime.

But I got the API calls all working (after Github support helped me get CORS working), but I lost interest in the project and it's just sitting around collecting dust

The code:
https://github.com/swanson/lanyon/tree/gh-pages

Demo that doesn't quite work:
http://swanson.github.com/lanyon/
I may be able to answer #1. If you have a site that is based outside of the US, and a copyright holder accuses you of infringement, the US Attorney General could order your DNS record removed (as well as disable payment processing and advertising services). If you file a counter-notice contesting this action, you implicitly consent to being sued in the US court system.

On the flip side, foreign nations may benefit from this legislation, as it will indicate the US is relinquishing their leadership role as custodian of core internet features such as DNS, and may open up opportunities abroad.
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It's not really an objection to terminology. "Fooglewoo" handlers would still exist outside the normal flow of control while handling things that many people would consider routine.

Burying that kind of every-day, expected-circumstance logic in a side channel is, at least in some developers opinions, detrimental to the readability and understandability of a program.
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I agree with the two posters who've already replied; your strategy didn't work not because cold calling doesn't work in your niche, but because your pitch was mediocre at best. (I also know personally someone who built a big merchant account business from cold calling, so it IS effective in your industry.)

Take a look at this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470567023/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... -- it's the best book I've ever read on cold calling, and is helping me get over my fears about it (I plan to start a big cold calling push in January.) You'll quickly see the difference between your pitches and the ones outlined in the book.

And I also recommend that you do cold-calling yourself instead of outsourcing it. You'll learn a lot more quickly that way. Once you have an effective script, then you can outsource.
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Also noteworthy in this context, a site owner who issues a counter-notice automatically consents to being sued in U.S. courts (a strong disincentive for sites based abroad) (http://torrentfreak.com/the-privatization-of-copyright-lawma...)
I remember this hainbit.com being posted as a weekend project a few days ago are you promoting the site or really used it? If you really used it is awesome that people actually started to use something showed for HN.
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