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I think it's a good question. There are so many languages around that it is hard to choose from. I think it's beneficial to get good at a handful of languages and use them. However, there might be a time where a newer language is just so great that you have to use it. For example, in web development should you use straight Javascript? Jquery? Dart? Coffee Script?

Personally, Python, Java, and ObjC gets me everything I need and it allows me to get really good at a few languages instead of trying to keep 10 different ones in my head. Granted, if you know a few languages any new one should be fairly easy to pick up.

You don't want to start a job with some new language only to find out that it hasn't evolved enough to give you exactly what you need in your project.

I'd love to hear how people decide what language to use in their business. Do you pick Python over Java because it's simpler to write? Do you use PHP because of how well it's documented?

Like others, I'm saying this based on the title as I can't get the page to load.
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Sir, I'm from India and I can assure you that Orkut is dead. Almost everyone has shifted to facebook in last two years. I have an orkut account and haven't opened it since last winter.
That always struck me as the natural way to compress knowledge for exams. I've got nowhere near the intellect to remember whole derivations and proofs, so I have to boil them down just to have any hope of retaining them.

Doesn't always work, though. Turns out that memorizing the form of the Lorentz transformation will allow you to solve arbitrary length contraction / time dilation type problems, but nowhere near as quickly as the physics GRE demands. C'est la vie.
Facebook passed Orkut in India and has either already or nearly overtaken it in Brasil.
Pirating Disney's works doesn't help anything much. It doesn't overcome the problem of not being able to use Disney works as the basis of new, derived works to expand and enrich our culture, which is the real loss where Disney films still being under copyright dozens of years later comes into play. I mean, if Sleeping Beauty was never made, the difference from a world where we aren't allowed to do anything interesting with it as inspiration for further works is not huge -- but the difference between living in that world where it exists but we can't really touch it and a world where we can create derived works to produce enduring culturally enriching works is tremendous.

Still . . . if people are going to acquire it anyway, it's better if they're not giving money to Disney eighty years after it was created thanks to copyright extension robbing us of our culture.
The image from the Wired article shows this pretty clearly: http://www.avc.com/.a/6a00d83451b2c969e2015393a8b4c3970b-pi

One of the biggest drops is after "Mt.Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange, admits its database was compromised and user information leaked."

If you bank "lost" your money there would be outcry. Until people understand and trust these establishments it'll never take off.
In addition to blasdel's excellent point, there's the simple fact that if the copyright extension act were not passed it would have entered the public domain (where it belongs so long after the fact), and there'd be no legal infrastructure for enforced revenue generation and royalty distribution, anyway.

. . . but yeah, a gaffer doesn't get royalties for the move on whose set he worked. You seem remarkably naive about how this stuff works.
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Yeah I'm not visiting Fox Business.
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After Brian Kellerman tweeted about being broken down by restricted end Jerr Witten during Thursdays activity,
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I find this comment to be mocking -- there is a wide range of topics that can be discussed regarding Prometheus Rising, but you pick a petty one.
Reciprocal visitations treaties are a bitch, eh?
The two player variant of Bughouse is called Crazyhouse. You can play it on the chess servers (freechess.org, chessclub.com etc).

There are also some chess engines that can do it, including the one in Mac OS X, though I don't know if Apple's GUI offers access to it.
There already is Bitcoin2, and 3, and 4, etc. Lots of forks, and even forks of forks (Bitcoin -> Ixcoin -> I0coin). Solidcoin is probably the main one, and has some interesting critiques of Bitcoin:

http://solidcoin.info/faq.php

Fundamentally, the value of anything is a function of its supply and demand, even currencies. In Bitcoin's case, the demand derives from the new utility provided by a unique and clever solution to the problem of distributed consensus among untrusted parties. Eg, people want to transact and neither trust each other to deal honestly nor trust a central monetary authority (either not to devalue the medium of exchange, or not track them, etc).

Bitcoin created a system to make that possible, and hence has demand (and limited supply) and value. As long as the underlying reasons for that demand don't vanish, it should always have some value.

The question is, can forks of Bitcoin provide that utility in a significantly better way, that gives them enough marginal demand over Bitcoin to incentivize most people in the Bitcoin network to switch? Same as the general competing currencies idea espoused by Ron Paul and others (for the record, I'm a skeptic, but find the idea interesting), just applied to virtual P2P currencies that are created by hackers rather than nation states (of course, there's nothing stopping a nation state from creating one either except their own laws, mindset, and momentum).

As for early adopters being favored, you can only make that observation with the benefit of hindsight. Had bitcoin failed early or never taken off, early adopters would have lost. The expected value back when early adopters decided to commit and mine and accumulate bitcoin is decidedly different from the realized value of bitcoin now.

Also, most currencies favor early adopters, even (especially) gold and silver. I don't think that's really anything new.
I can't seem to get the extension to work (package not valid). It looks neat, though.

Detecting and highlighting new comments was my original functionality, and I added the post list highlighting as an after-thought when I couldn't find something similar through a quick search.

Thanks for sharing it.
Excellent points.

I've run across quite a few people who actually buy a DRM-infested copy of something to "pay the creator" (even though the creator often gets screwed by the people actually collecting revenues), then "pirate" a DRM-free copy that isn't a hassle to use (listen, watch, play, whatever). I frankly wish they'd skip the purchasing step in most cases, because the behavior of the vendors is often so egregiously bad they should probably be locked up for racketeering rather than paid real money.

My own reaction to horribly restrictive business models, though, is to simply not engage them, to the extent I'm motivated to do anything at all. I'd rather not even advertise for restricted content by telling people I have a copy and like it, regardless of where I got it.
From the genius who brought us what Google adapted as AdSense. I applaud this effort. I'm no Spike Lee, but in my opinion this is doing the right thing.

Let people compete over what to do with the raw data (data which is of course publicly accessible but subject to the strange inequities of crawling), how best to process and present it, not over access to it. DDG has to pay Yahoo! for a BOSS license. That is just strange when you think about how the raw data was obtained. It is publicly available information.

Nothing against Yahoo! for doing that (selling access to publicly available data), as there are many other examples of this practice across web- "everyone else is doing it". But I do not think it is "the right thing" to do.
The actual translation of the formula to Python is about 4 lines. Starting on L30 - L34 of [1]. The rest is just IO plumbing.

[1] https://gist.github.com/731413/7ad1b4c04bc2d6b5033c5811efcb4... .
When I was new to the game, a quick-and-dirty strategy I was taught was to figure out which board had the better strategic positioning within the first 15 moves. Then, the player whose board was not the "good" board, would assume a turtle role and play defense, all while capturing pieces for his teammate.

Although strangely enough, I recalled the turtle board winning the game more often than the board that was appraised with a higher chance of winning.
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Just playing with different lightboxes and jquery. The arrows are images I hide/show.
My impression is that Google also always returns wikipedia when you have "wiki" as a search term. Only an extra two characters.
Android is a regular computer, only one where the app frameworks are limited by intent and with reason.
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weird, i'm investigating on that
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I really don't want to be the cynic on this subject, but I can't help but point to what I think is the elephant in the room: The political barriers will emerge as you succeed in this.

Suppose you are able to jump the technical barriers - you make the tech happen. I believe it will be at that point when power oligarchy will erect the political, legal barriers against your successes. Worse, they'll probably use your technology against you.

I realize that it is possibly harder to change that political structure. And, that's assuming that the technical situation is hard enough. But, if you change the political structure, you have less to worry about in the long run. You don't always have to be running.

We really need to abolish IP laws in their current state. We need new IP laws that are reasonable for our current social and political structures and technological realities. Hard, hard work, yes, but otherwise, it's always going to be running for a safe place and getting squashed by the people in power.
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It's been like that for years. Can't see it improving, now that they're going to have a monopoly on the market.

I will happily pay money to anybody who can build a code search service that is actually functional.
IIRC, filing a fake DMCA takedown notice is equivalent to perjury. This is the balance.

The people and companies systematically filing DMCA takedown notices against their competitors should be brought to court.
The popularity and usage of Bitcoin shows there is an emerging trend in the currency and payments market: digital peer to peer crypto-currencies. Wilson is only making a statement that this trend has materialized, and he is excited to see where it would go -- if any viable businesses spring up based on these currencies it would be a smart idea for him or other VCs to invest. Why? Well, Wilson at least is an investor in Internet products, and seeing as how these currencies are looking to establish themselves in a global market (Internet) whose GDP is in the trillions... you get the point.

Though, I do think you are biased. Obviously.
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You seem to have a strong opinion on Google+, yet you don't understand the 'grand' concept of Google+.

What Google is trying to do with Google+ is take hold of the information market that resides within social media and use this information in combination with adwords. Google wants to integrate Google+ into all of it's products, starting with Youtube and give all the Google products a uniform experience. I'm flabbergasted that you have a problem with this since this is the main goal for Apple. (I assume that you have Apple products, since you talk in such lengths and positive manner of Siri) Google+ is also not about a social graph, it's about doing social media the right, natural way.

You also don't understand how Adwords works when you talk about Siri. A 'click' is a hit to the page, be it a click, enter, wget, or voice search of Siri. So searches in Google with Siri will earn Google money. Also iOS uses Google Maps as it's map application so Siri uses Google Maps, you just don't see it.

A last inaccuracy: “Don’t try to do something in everything. Rather focus on doing everything in something.” This would be exactly why Google has been stopping so many of it's products.

Next to these points there is a whole lot of stuff that you are simply wrong about.

Edit: changed positivism to a correct use of words
So you're jumping to conclusion based on what one venture capital investor says he will invest in?
Most of the VCs I talked to about FaceCash refused to invest because they were afraid of the regulatory implications.

Having followed your comments on this topic for a while, it seems just as plausible that VCs did not invest in FaceCash because they believed that you cannot take on the challenges(regulatory or otherwise).

VCs invest all the time in enterprises that are in the gray area because the potential upside negates the obvious risks.
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> Also, most currencies favor early adopters

If you amend "currencies" to be "currencies of finite supply* then yes. However any currency administered by a central bank does not favor early adopters: The dollar being a very obvious case.
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...
Derek Sivers shares a different opinion, can't really argue against it for you if it works for you, but it's good for other people to be mindful of all their choices.
From what else I've seen about this, it's not actually a functioning store and was mostly a publicity stunt.

That aside, I'm curious about why they would have multiple slots on the same shelf for the same product. At least looking at the image in the article, it appears that some of the milk and various juices have >1 slot on the same shelf. Since there is no stocking issue and there need only be one QR code to scan per product, this seems like a waste of space where additional products could be displayed.

I suppose in this case, it was probably just a consequence of them using a photo of a real-life cooler. However it would be interesting to find out if it's more effective to retain that traditional in-store setup versus using a display that had only one image per item. Perhaps keeping the normal in-store look adds a certain level of comfort/familiarity that makes up for reduced product set.
It's a good idea to take someone's opinion with a pinch of salt, but it's bad idea to speculate and have no evidence to back up what you're saying.
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I was wondering if the author would mention District Heating, which arguably makes way more sense for effectively using this waste heat, and he did:

"Many cities in Europe already have insulated pipes in place for centralized “district heating.” Heat generated by data centers is beginning to be distributed to neighboring homes and commercial buildings — in Helsinki, for example."

This is an infrastructure challenge, but many US cities already have district heating systems. New York's is the largest, but several other cities have it already. Wikipedia lists about 20, plus systems installed on university campuses. Surely some of these cities are good places for data centers that could be integrated into the network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating#United_States
Ask HN: Do HN's "saved stories" list only items less than 100 days old?
Hello! I tried hn-profile [1] to download my saved HN stories (i.e., "saved stories" under my profile). I was thrilled to have finally found such a tool, but disappointed to see only stories less than 100 days old (<102, to be precise). Is this a well-known fact? Is this information indeed lost/purged?

Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/bsandrow/hn-profile
Probably not by a significant enough level that you wouldn't have problems from iron overload first. Vitamin D blood levels are measured in picograms or nanograms per mL. You need more like a milligram or so per day.
Tangent time!

"The optimal human-readable line length" isn't really something that exists, even if we make lots of assumptions about basic stuff like font size, avg word length, and color contrast.

Here's a quick study on the reading speed and comprehension of character line lengths (cl) between 35 and 95 for reference: http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng...

- most efficient reading (speed/accuracy) at 95cl

- line length does not affect comprehension

But here's the head spinner:

- 60% _preferred_ either 35cl or 95cl

- 100% _least preferred_ 35cl (45%) or 95cl (55%)

Line length is an easy thing to assume everyone perceives the same way, but even given a consistent environment (definitely not a given in this age of increasingly diverse device dimensions) there's a wide range of preferences with little real impact on readability. Unless, of course, your assumptions about readability clash with the user's preferences or reading environment.

Put simply - make your life easy and reduce problems by just letting the user decide.
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I've talked to about sixty, and Fred Wilson's post exemplifies many of the patterns I've observed throughout. So no, I wouldn't say I'm jumping to conclusions.
OpenNI+NITE are licensed for free for commercial use if you're targeting a PrimeSense sensor like Kinect. Don't spread non-truths on the internet!
not for long!
Could cyborg insects act as first responders?
Sorry the site's having issues. I haven't done any significant work on it in most of two years and there's rather a lot more data in it than when I actually worked on it.

So, yes, it's true, I haven't used the right tool for the job. Except that as with so many things "the right tool" is "an actively maintained codebase". Looking into why it's crashing now, but don't expect any miracles
When should you take performance into consideration?
Bitcoin isn't going anywhere anytime soon, IMHO. Works great for intended purpose. Just like a bike works great as a bike (not as a motorcycle or a rocket ship).

Want to conduct an anonymous consumer-sized transaction and/or send money internationally and/or minimize transaction fees? Bitcoin:

1) Make your deal terms, priced in Bitcoins. Include whatever time limits are required, such as payment must be received by x deadline or else commitment expires and/or is subject to repricing.

2) Login to Bitcoin exchange. Purchase Bitcoins at whatever market price is. Send Bitcoins.

3) Done.

Sure, you have other risks that you have hedged, minimized and/or accepted (or failed to recognize or address, and therefore accepted without knowing it). See here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts for some of the interesting contracts possible with Bitcoin.

Plenty of opportunity for Bitcoin-related designers, developers, investors, etc. to create the services and interfaces required for end-Bitcoin users to feel confortable and be able to EASILY and SECURELY conduct transactions and bank their Bitcoins SECURELY (easy, disaster recover, not stolen or hacked, etc.). Landrush is on. Early dayz are now... still.

Besides Bitcoin-related work, there is the whole, larger, universe of ancillary services. The analogy is Facebook to Facebook Apps or iPhone to iPhone Apps. Micropayments, automated bidding, pricing, incentivizing, etc. Lots of neat possibilities.
Is there a reason to believe it would never be possible, or is it simply that we haven't found a way yet?
The link to this on the theverge.com adds nothing. Submit the link to the original article on Wired.
I can readily look up HN stories older than that. You are just using the wrong tool. With site-restricted Google search, or with search by user and keyword through HN Search, you can find such gems as

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

from 1379 days ago with pg's opinion about using downvoting to express disagreement with comments.
Wow, this is one of the most detailed and well written articles I've ever read on the topic.
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There are a few ways I've "hacked" my diet. None of these are really groundbreaking or new, but they really do make a huge difference in my energy and motivation throughout the day.

1. Eat several small mini-meals all day instead of 3 big ones. Aim for 6-8 per day. This keeps your metabolism and energy level much more even throughout the day. If you eat your last one before 8pm you may notice losing a few pounds in your sleep as well.

2. Yerba Mate. Magical stuff. Much more sustained and focused energy for a longer period of time than coffee. Once it wears off you don't crash like coffee either.

3. Replace..............With

-- Red meat.............Fish (and white meat if fish is too expensive)

-- White bread........Whole grain bread. A popular switch...make it.

-- Soda....................Tea? Or at least 100% fruit juice.

-- Peanut butter.......Natural peanut butter. Skippy natural is as good as normal.

-- Sugar...................Nothing. You don't need it.

4. Start reading labels. Remember: Not all calories are created equal. Look for how many of the total carbs of an item are from sugar. Look how many total calories are from fat.

Look for these 4-letter words...
-- Hydrogenated oil
-- Artificial _____
-- >4 syllables and you can't pronounce it (Yeah, someone's going to disagree. I'm just saying it's a rule of thumb)

Those are just a few I use daily. I hope some other people add to this list.
I think you have more of a problem with me than any of the VCs I talked to.

Besides, I'm the only one suing the government over this issue, so the hypothetical case you reference wouldn't even be correct.
I have the same problem with pool. Usually before the second pint I'm crap, 2-3 is the sweet spot, after that is downhill.

But damn, I used to be in a couple leagues and those 2 pints really put me in the zone.
To put this in the nicest possible way: Krugman is a highly partian economist.

While I haven't taken the time to try to deconstruct his argument line by line, I would be shocked if it's not disingenuous in more than one way.

Yes, I know he won the economics version of the Nobel prize; no, that doesn't change my opinion of him.
http://www.google.com/search?q=first+world+problem+meme

Anyone with Photoshop and a few minutes of spare time?
Try Alt-' (or whatever key is above Tab on your keyboard). Alt-' switches windows, Alt-Tab switches applications.
I actually thought they did that, until you wrote that comment.
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Nobody is forcing you to do anything. You're free to use a different desktop or distribution. The source is even provided to you free of charge to modify as you see fit.

Complaining that someone else is not doing free work just to suit you personally sounds like acting like a four year old, honestly.
Think what you like of Krugman, this is a completely apolitical issue and he knows his economics.

He's also not the only one. Others who understand economics agree:

http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a...