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This is why people place them on github or bitbucket. So it is very easy to clone the repo locally and then use the .vimrc. It is something you only have to do once per machine.
Thank you very, very much. I will implement all your suggestions over the weekend. I was trying to make the app work with mobile devices, hence, skimpy use of the real estate.

- If you click on the graph you get the definitions.

- If you click at the title you get the visual analysis of the data (http://hnpickup.appspot.com/hnpickup_ratio_visual_analysis.p...)

- if you click at the link below graph is sends you to HN.

- the time is calculated on the client side and it should be Your local time - let me know if it's not the case (JSON data has UTC epoch time, though)

And yes: it is a catch-22 ;-)

EDIT: I don't like clutter on a web page. You can put a lot of information on what is what but you just need it ONE time, then it should go away. Maybe someday I will find a jquery plugin that will do the trick.
Could the author identify him/herself? I think this is brilliant, and would like to web-stalk/follow whom ever created this. In a purely selfish-selfimprovement manner. :)
If there's one successful company making something that nobody else makes yet many people want, it seems like there has to be space. I'd go for it.
Very interesting!

However, I can't find any indication of what time zone you're displaying. Is it my time zone, GMT+0, or something else?
Look, noahc is absolutely right. If you think Notepad++ is holding you back when coding HTML and CSS, you're wrong. You need practice. So practice.

Have a look at PatternTap (http://patterntap.com/) to find inspiration for specific bits of the UI. Find out how you would create your own in Photoshop/Gimp/Illustrator/Pixelmator/Paint. Maybe add a texture, find a better color scheme or change around the font.

Then build it with HTML/CSS/JS. Use Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Eclipse, Vim, Notepad++ or, hell, even regular Notepad. It does not matter.

Great designers use the tools they are comfortable with. Most use a tool such as Photoshop to build something tangible (a PNG, PSD or, if you're management-material, PPT). That let's them define the way the website should look under ideal circumstances without getting to hung up on the correct HTML and CSS. Then they cut that up and code it in HTML and CSS to create something useful.

That's what you need to practice. And if you're worried your designs look too "Web 1.0", you need to focus on the first part of that process: defining what it should look like, before opening up your editor of choice.
That’s always going to happen. I think that looking at the distribution of reviews and also reading a few negative reviews (because it’s generally possible to figure out whether reviews are negative for valid reasons) is very helpful.
Brilliant work, dont suppose you'd reveal (if you have one), your @twitter handle?
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Over 100 comments here and most everyone seems surprised? The reporting in that article was complete crap. I don't like Microsoft but I don't see any evidence in this article for the claim that the BSA is a front for MS. That bit was recycled from a claim Some years ago in Uruguay which also doesn't totally make it clear that the BSA is a front.

Aside from the writer's total desperate reaching for a real story, let's all remember this is the BSA. the BSA has been independently campaigning to stop piracy by all means necessary for years now. How is this any shock at all that now they'd support SOPA? It's not Google supporting it, it's big ass software companies! Come on!

So you mention Apple in the title and we're all supposed to be shocked and horrified? We're supposed to be shocked that the company that just had record breaking profits is going to support a piece of legislation that is total dog shit for everyone but huge copyright holders?

Come on now. Let's cut the crap and be real. This is a non story. SOPA sucks, I love Apple, I'm still not moved. Waste of time to read.
Talking about botany? It's a fruit.

Talking about food? It's a vegetable.
I feel like antivirus software is less piratable than a lot of things though - you need to constantly update through a centralized server which checks your credentials (which are inevitably false if you've pirated the software).
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> there being no such thing as anti-propaganda

(from Wikipedia) Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group.

So anti-propaganda is propaganda aimed at countering the message and effects of an opponent's propaganda

> through open exchanges and posting of factual material.

Please... Your only excuses is if you are being sarcastic or are actually getting paid to say that.

But ok, I'll bite. So which one of these is a factual statement?:

* Yesterday an American CIA drone killed Ahmed Behjzad, a 13 year old goat herder from Ungkmar village. His death left behind a grieving mother, father & sister.

* A group of militants have reportedly been killed by a US drone strike yesterday.

Oh look, they both contain factual information. Which one do you think US Air Force is going to blog about?
I totally agree. Personally I take the Robert De Niro approach:

"...become attached to nothing in life that you can't walk away from in 30 seconds if you spot the "Heat" around the corner."

Except I apply this to customised/complicated software rather than "things" in my life.
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That's how it is supposed to work, but it never does if you are politically wealthy and well connected, and rarely does if you're a nobody.

Unfortunately for Swartz, he is neither - on the contrary, he's been constantly and loudly criticizing the government, so he gets the "by the book" treatment to its worst possible conclusion.
Technically, the way the law works is based on what a jury is willing to accept. As I would not accept the first interpretation and I would accept the second it's something of a grey area.
Microsoft software would detect, score and report obnoxious workplace habits
I thought I'd share my learnings that I presented at Berlin.js yesterday with everybody
Google+ continues battle with fading user interest
This is why I stick pretty close to stock vim - I use it on too many remote systems to worry about keeping my environment consistent. I could automate something, and maybe when our sysadmin finishes integrating puppet into our servers I can use that, but in the meantime, my .vimrc is just syntax highlighting and tab settings.
They'll come up with a bill which is less objectionable in these areas in exchange for a lot of favors and other, probably completely unrelated clauses being added.
That part is not mysterious either - the collapse simply doesn't occur.

Say you have a photon in a superposition of state A and state B - think position. If it is in state A it hits a detector, if it is in state B it does not. If the detector is hit, it displays 'HIT' on its screen - otherwise it does not. If 'HIT' is displayed, the researcher thinks photon was in state A, otherwise the researcher thinks it is in state B.

The result of the experiment, without any wavefunction collapse, is a superposition of two states of the entire system:

State 1: Photon is in A, Detector was Hit, Researcher thinks photon is in A

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State 2: Photon is in state B, detector was not hit, researcher thinks photon is in B.

As you can see, the fact that the researcher never sees a photon in a superposition of states a+b (he doesn't ever see the detector both lit up and not) is explained without any wavefunction collapse.
Don't be, it happens sometimes when we contribute something that isn't considered helpful or contributive to the discussion going on. I have been downvoted a lot of times, but meh, sometimes you gain points sometimes you lose them.

I exercised an ability in a case I deemed necessary. Come on, a two word expression with no explanation whatsoever? I saw you did explain yourself after you got downvoted and I'm sorry you got downvoted again (I didn't do that, in case you are wondering).

The point is, I wouldn't have downvoted you if your first comment was as well explained as your second one.
That's precisely the problem. He's out there at the defense contractors, but since when were the defense contractors his constituents?
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Can you not start writing tests against those monster methods so that you've got a refactoring safety net?

I totally agree on being practical and not refactoring methods that work correctly. But if you find yourself in the monster methods making changes quite often, it seems irresponsible to not refactor and leave the camp ground cleaner for the next time you or someone else comes through it.
Predicting Ron Paul's opposition of legislation is hardly prescient. Heh.
The big companies would censor the data stream between my motor cortex and muscles if they could. But that is ridiculous, so they will settle for censoring the streams between all computers. Remember, in 50 years we will all have onboard computers integrated with our thoughts. we must program freedom right into the fabric of the net. As free as the signals between my liver and brain.
He is simply saying that there's no such thing as anti-propaganda by definition, there can only be propaganda from opposing viewpoints. It's mainly a linguistic distinction. Chill out. He's almost agreeing with you.

>Please... Your only excuses is if you are being sarcastic or are actually getting paid to say that.

Nobody has to provide you with an "excuse" for their views.
I think it's more related to North American lunch breaks and end-of-the-day? I'm on HN now because I take Fridays off for research, but otherwise not much time during the week except for breaks and after hours. I'm not sure how that will change knowing something we all know..
This happens with <username>.github.com as well and often confuses me.
I'd probably check to see if they had a valid login already and not update the cookie. Not sure if that opens up other holes though.
I signed up to see what it'll be like.

I took an entrepreneurial class that sounds like this at Georgia Tech, run by Merrick Furst (who has now started up the an incubator of sorts => http://flashpoint.gatech.edu). The course was team based, go out and iterate. Every time to class you found out what you did wrong over the past week so you'd go and redo part of it.

I suspect this course is going to be rather similar, but different perspectives are always good.
>Here you did sweeping personal attacks on Perl programmers

Again, you're projecting. I said "perl fanboys on this site". That's much less broad but you seem to not realize there is anything else?

>start writing personal attacks there

Why do you take fair critiques of the language as personal attacks? I think you need to read pg's essay about ID again.

>Get a life or start writing code for a hobby.

Again with the personal attacks. I have a life and I code for a hobby. That doesn't stop me from correcting fan boys who spread misinformation or distortions of the truth.
Reminds me of that famous XKCD comic, only someone is doing it as a job: http://xkcd.com/386/. "Duty Calls" indeed. I wonder however whether we should be heeding that great and wise axiom, which I believe it was Sun Tzu who originally said: "don't feed the trolls." Nobody has been able to talk Glenn Beck out of his idiotic ideas, and the fact that there are people out there "engaging" with his fans with true facts doesn't seem to do anything but feed their persecution complex. This could very possible be a waste of time at best, and fanning the flames at worst.
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This is what I do. I can clone a git repo, run an install script, and have my typical vim setup running in a trivial amount of time.
Are you talking AMOLED or pentile? AMOLED has a distinctive color-cast at low brightness and a color gamut that exceeds the standard which can make it look cartoony, but so do other screens e.g. the iPhones 3 and 4 which have too small a range and can look washed out as a result. The banding sounds like an AMOLED problem too (unless you mean the "stippling" type effect you can see if the pixels are big enough).

But neither of your complaints appears to be related to pentile vs RGB stripe. If you're talking about low pixel density then it's the same Mac OS vs Windows text rendering debate. There's not enough pixels so which kind of ugly do you prefer (or are you used to)? Some people like the hand wrangled pixels, other just let it fall where it lands. Things designed for one system will look worse on the other and especially bad to people who prefer the other look.
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Indeed, this would be great for filtering out random weblogs as well.
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Kindle Fire Added to Apple's Amazon Lawsuit
Signed up for hackerjobs.co.uk just before I posted this actually, although it'd be nice to have a bit more info on that page about what it will be.

I was going to caveat things more in the description but wanted to avoid going off on a ramble. Didn't want to insult anyone, so sorry if I made you sad on a Friday. I know there are good guys out there and I've been lucky enough to deal with some of them. However there are sadly some recruiters giving the profession a bad name, but I think you know all about that.
This got me too -- I thought the reason the code was "the strangest" was because the double-loop was nested the wrong way.
The Internet has worked fine without regulation for so many years.

Ummmm, no. Markets are segregated and each municipality grants a franchise to a specific company. Most markets in the USA have one cable company, one phone company, plus maybe some wireless and satellite coverage.

ISPs have been given billions of dollars in federal subsidies. Also, there are strings attached to every one of those dollars.

The FCC and FTC have pretty restrictive regulations regarding spectrum usage, how much power you can push over phone lines, etc.

There is a lot of regulation on the internet in the USA, which is why we can't let the market settle the Net Neutrality issue.
I got that, however he followed it by the statement that US posts factual information, implying that only other side is somehow trying to influence public opinion but US is posting just facts. Making it seem as it is "propaganda" vs "facts".

So I made up a stupid example to show how even presenting facts in a certain way is enough to completely skew the type & tone of the message.
IPhone 4S carrier showdown: AT&T fastest, Verizon most reliable
Apparently the target cost is $200.
I feel exactly the opposite. The previous editors that I used required configuration through a menu system. I wouldn't have known how to take that with me elsewhere.

With Vim, all my configuration is in files, which can be backed up. I have them in a dotfiles repo on Github. As I make tweaks, I regularly pull and push from my various computers and they are always up to date. If I'm on a computer that doesn't have my .vimrc, I'm just a `git pull` away from having it. (Same goes for zsh config, etc.)

The most likely time for me not to have my .vimrc is when sshing into a server, in which case I can use stock vim just fine. If my main editor were a GUI, I wouldn't have it available at all, so I think Vim has a leg up in that, too.
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Defining Data Science as "exploration and invention" and Business Intelligence as "the same old reporting on the top of big data" is just silly. You can't just say "Data Science is inventive, innovative, and great Statistics" but "Business Intelligence" is old, crotchety, bad Statistics. That just seems pedantic to me.
I get that particles don’t know anything, that’s why I put it in quotes. But then again, how do we know they don’t know anything? Could elementary particles possess a form of consciousness?
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Yes, I also found that peculiar. I wish he had explained what he meant by that. Are all of the other Kindle Fire reviews not from humans? I'm confused.
The text on the graph is hardly readable on Windows/Chrome
I didn't read the paper yet and it really might contain some valuable insights into the nature of quantum mechanics (I'll take a look at it later today), but I find this debate about whether the wave-function is a real object or not hilarious: It completely fails to take into account that the wave function is not defined on space-time, but rather on an abstract configuration space - it confuses the mathematical model with physical reality.

The general problem with QM is that it's an algebraic and not a geometric theory, ie you know the rules, but have no real concept about what they mean. However, QM strongly resembles the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of classical mechanics, and the geometry of that is known (see eg http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0604063 ).

The quantum numbers basically select a leaf of the foliation of our phase space, and the wave function is some sort of probability distribution on that (but not really ;)), which can be represented by a function on configuration space (which is, in general, NOT space-time, in particular if multiple particles are involved).

It's closest classical analogon is the action function S (or rather, its differential dS), and you don't see many people arguing that dS is a real object: it doesn't make a lot of sense to do so, and the same holds true for the wave function.
>You should label and explain the axes and sliders. I have no idea what the numbers mean, or what the "pickup ratio" is.

Left-click on the graph.
I've always just checked the age of the story at the bottom of the new page, but this is a big step forward. Nice work.
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It's a nice visualization.

One more suggestion: Do label the time zone. even if it correctly detects the user's time zone, that's unexpected on the internet. Plus you don't label 'current' time... for all I know it's a Time Zone ahead but only updates once an hour. Anyway, all confusion goes away with a label.

Edit: Took out references to my personal time zone
That's not an argument, just a weird insult.
Hmm this story seems to be posted in a good time. Coincidence?
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I very much hope that's just there as an easter egg for those of us who read to the bottom.
You would think this, but the quantum erasure experiment appears to demonstrate that a photon which has been marked so as to determine its path and then subsequently randomly unmarked so as to irretrievably destroy that information once again displays interference. The delayed choice quantum eraser appears to demonstrate that this decision to either record or destroy path information may be delayed until after the reference photon has arrived at the detector, with corresponding absence or presence of interference.

It's not just about interaction causing collapse, or, if it is, a particle which has been interacted with and collapsed may be subsequently uninteracted with and uncollapse back into a wave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_eraser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser
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The first thing that happens (after the TOS) when you go to the App Store is it asks you if you want to download your free version of iBooks.
Mouse can't be perfectly copied. Code can.

If biologists could copy mice from other experiment to give them their own drugs and compare results, they would surely do this along with using their own mice.

The more ways to compare experiments, the more sure we will be about results.

I understand cleaning up code is a lot of work, so don't do it, just release it as it is. I know it will be ugly, will include obscenity, etc. If somebody need it, it will do the rest of work.
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For any reasonable definition of consciousness, no.
Before anyone else reads all the way through, this seems to actually be a (high level) article about just iPhone Mobile UIs, not general Mobile.

I deduce this (possibly incorrectly) because the only mention of Android is on the second to last slide: "Android is broken, though".
While it's clear SOPA isn't going anywhere, my concern is that the "next" SOPA won't be so extreme and hence, the outrage will be muted. All they need is a foothold to build off of. Luckily they were dumb this time and tried to go big.
Apps like SSHDroid and SMBDroid can make your phone act as a file server on WiFi.

MTP allows the storage to be accessed by the phone and computer at the same time.
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also revealed by http://www.cloudsigma.com/es/blog/2010/08/28/9-cloud-server-benchmarking
The thing is that you really ~can~ just say that. Statistical analysts aren't f-ing around when it comes to analyzing data and are capable of some extremely magical things that you can't just "pick up" randomly simply by working on data a lot.

Just like you can't randomly understand the fundamentals of software engineering like data structures & algorithms without first studying the concepts directly.

Hey I'm totally fine if people don't like what they're reading though. It gives me a competitive edge for any company I work for if everyone else is against the idea. ;)
I think what his message is meant to be taken in the "Free Software" sense. You know, proprietary anything is evil, all software should be free, hippies rule the new utopia and all that. I won't speak for Microsoft as I'm not sure how they do it but what you mentioned with Apple and iTunes is pretty much it right there. What people who repeat this message forget is that this "lock-in" is not bad or evil to many people. Sure, the hackers want to install their own apps and use alternative app stores and all that in which case I'd say find another (or create another) platform. My mother and the vast majority of consumers want to tap their screens a couple of times and get a cool app. It's not lock-in to them. To them it's easy and convenient. Technology is for everyone, not just those l33t enough to hack.
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First time learning of this. I am not concerned with the possibility of my domains being maliciously duplicated on .xxx by someone else; if this becomes a serious problem, I have little doubt Google et al will take care of it in the search returns.