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So, you people have a lot of friends right now (including me). Care to make a wish from the internet to give something back? :)
Although I am just a front-dev developer, I found this post extremely interesting to read. Need to try it sometime on a Ruby backend I built earlier. Thanks!
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That distribution of reviews doesn’t look very healthy. Compared to the other Kindles it’s doing badly as far as reviews are concerned.
What is the difference between neutrinos and regular light photons? Do Neutrinos also exhibit the wave particle duality? Does this mean Albert Einstein was wrong, after all these years of assuming his "biggest blunder" was right?
Because even if it turns out to be a fluke, it's interesting. I would love to see more articles here talking about cutting edge physics, even if it's not fully confirmed.
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Textbook logical fallacy.
Noted (can't edit anymore). Thats a shame, especially given the high res display.

Having said that, there is really not widespread use of the GPUs out there today. I hope that will change, but 3d gaming on phones (especially that pushes the GPUs to the limit) is very much niche right now.
The last thing I heard about this was that the results could be explained by the researchers overlooking the relativistic motion of the GPS clocks, and when corrected for it, the results were actually another confirmation of special relativity. See http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27260/

That said, a brief search turned up this paper ( https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebunn/vanelburg.pdf ) which argues that that explanation is faulty (i.e., the paper made a mistake, and when corrected, the original researchers' results stand).

(Disclaimer: although I once read a book on this stuff, I shouldn't be confused with an expert, and I have no idea who's right and who's wrong. But it is exciting.)
You can't log any arbitrary out of their sessions. It only resets your session, as in the session cookie is reset.
Hey Josh,

That's interesting! Curious what you think about mine if you have time? :) We just launched publicly. I imagine you guys must have people who are working on something similar to us as well. Here's a writeup.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/08/socialcheckme/
True, but Marco didn't even mention price. The KF price is just 40% of the iPad price, and while the iPad has certainly raised expectations, it's unfair to expect a $199 tablet to perform at the same level of the iPad.

Marco has his mind made up on the Android, and though I'm not an Android fan (some would call me an Apple fanboy), I don't think he is giving this device a fair shot.
if you work for a small company (10-200), displaying the company name basically destroys any anonymity. why display your current company name?
Photons interact much more easily with matter. Photons are massless whereas neutrinos are believed to have mass. Also, photons mediate the electromagnetic force where as neutrinos only interact with the weak subatomic force.
I second your comments. I'll add a bit to them.

The web browser is very slow. It's really bad. I try to scroll and sometimes have to really press hard with my fingers to get it to respond. Sometimes no response.

I thought reading a book would be easier. Looking up a word can be hard. Sometimes I hold my finger on a word and a whole line of text is highlighted and thus I can't look up the definition.

Browsing my queue on Netflix is a pain and searching for movies on Prime isn't great either.

Overall, I rate the device 2 stars out of 5. I wish I had not bought it. Wait for version 3!
Learn whatever you need that will get you to your goal with the most satisfaction.

If you want to make iPhone apps, obj-c is probably the way to go. If you want to go into Android development, Java is solid. If you like the web sphere Ruby is awesome. Javascript in general is a highly sought out skill plus you said you were interested in Node, so that's an option as well.
Nancy Pelosi represents the 8th Congressional District, which is basically San Francisco. She knows who her constituents are.
price is an advantage, only if nook wasn't around. I played with nook today, it is way better than Fire. after looking at both devices (I bought fire, without using it) I'd say it is worth spending extra 50$ on nook. Amazon has other advantages (prime, videos, better and bigger ebook store than Barnes etc) - but the hardware itself, is definitely meh. In short, play with both devices before deciding.
Is it that frowned upon in "industry" to look for other jobs? I'd like to think that whatever manager I might work for wouldn't be irate if he found out I was looking at moving on. This may sound like a naive question and it is. I've only had internships and am soon to go full time at a very large company.
Nesson?
Did anyone check this link too on that page www.entrepreneur-class.org. I think it's going to be useful for startup guys
from a redditor:
"I heard that when a petition gets enough signatures the president will personally print it out and wipe his ass with it."
I think this is brilliant. And I think that it will be successful as evidenced from the strong opinions in this thread. Strong opinions help products spread. The fact that some people hate this app is only evidence that they'll tell someone else how much they hate it; which can only help you. I'm a big fan of polarizing products.
If it's not a bit of partially-digested cheese, it might have to do with the interface between relativity and QED.

But while it's not unthinkable that relativity requires revision under some circumstances, it's one of the most thoroughly and repeatedly proven tenets of modern physics. It's going to require something much more definitive and reproducible to overturn that mountain. I wouldn't expect a positive answer to this inside ten years, but a negative answer could turn up any time since it depends on someone finds the bug in the gears.
Also, Silk is by far the best mobile browser I've used, in terms of speed. It feels as fast, if not faster, than my laptop. Amazon really did what they said they did with Silk.
Try selling national prosperity to shareholders.
That's the wonderful thing about SOPA -- there's something for everyone to hate in it.
Doesn't matter. There are no requirements to keep a patented implementation secret, unless for some reason they agreed to do so when they licensed the patent.
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You REALLY need to be able to limit your "browse" results to location.
The language doesn't seem very professional... And I'm also wondering how they thought, as a reseller (with branding) that "closing their reseller account and asking for a refund" could mean something else than closing all of their accounts. These were Backify accounts, not LiveDrive... It just sounds very unorganized to me.
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Or at least have a greater www.stanford-classes.edu, to show all of them.
But the need for a own domain, is to make it easier when the class really starts. Its easier, to use your own domain, that have a leanlauchlab.stanford.edu.

But the point is, its a wonderful news! Congrats Stanford!
I have seen no media coverage of anyone at MIT or elsewhere condemning the prosecution of Aaron. Nor have I seen any renowned individual of academia, at any point, blog, pod-cast, or via lecture condemn the prosecution of Aaron, just because one may think it is rubbish does not mean that they have given their voice to the subject. The fact is there has been silence on the issue, and that fact is derived from the silence, not from a human or media source. If I am wrong I would love to be corrected, but I have not, to this date, seen anyone of notoriety from MIT speak up.
Funny thing is, I bought a Kindle before and I hated it. Buttons!? Up-up-up-up-left-left. Pah! But when the Fire came out I put it on my wish list and got one for my birthday. It's so much better than the old, flashy B&W Kindles, I kinda like it. (And I also have an iPad.)

The article isn't wrong about the dumb placement of the headphone jack, but I have to say the cloud music player sounds great. I've bought a lot of Amazon MP3s over time and it's great to have them instantly playable on my lap.

I like it well enough as a book reader, too. It's much easier to hold for sustained periods than the iPad.

My take: Fire has some bugs but they are all software, which can get better. Meantime, for $200, I'm keeping mine.
Damn cheap this phone is
It's not dead yet: While introduced last month, Wednesday was just the first hearing regarding HR3261. The House Judiciary Committee will reconvene on it in a few weeks. (http://staff.tumblr.com/post/12930076128/a-historic-thing) It's more widely known thanks to yesterday's mass movement, but the bill is still far from what anyone could call "dead."
I'm wondering: what do the involved scientists think might be the source of error? GPS timing (namely, the synchronization of the two remote clocks) sounds likely to me, because I was initially surprised that they could even hope to have sufficiently accurate chronography to detect such a small duration.
Nobody has mentioned that the Fire is a great book _buying_ experience. I'm not a big fan of "we know what you bought so we know what you'll like" but the store app is smooth, keeps your context while you're browsing and, in general, way more pleasant than the website.
I think the post was relevant. I don't mind self-promotion if the thing being promoted has hack value.

[Edit]
Re dsman's comment: "... if every iphone post here attracted comments by all of us who were building an iphone app then HN would be the worse for it"

It depends, IMO, on the nature of the app. Trying to crowdsource weather prediction is a sufficiently interesting hack that I think HN would very much not be the worse for knowing about this. I would only find it objectionable if cryptoz starts promoting in every Galaxy Nexus thread.
Programming language design and implementation is awesome and terrifying. I did exactly this for my senior project, a language called [fuga](http://github.com/fmota/fuga) that is based on [Io](http://iolanguage.com/). I learned so much.

But beware. Language design is a bottomless pit from which you must climb if you wish to implement anything.
Ask HN: How do we promote Australia's marketplace for books?
We've built a marketplace for books in Australia and have recently hit the marketing phase and are struggling to get into it. Any advice on trying to crack the secondary market for books, and promoting a website in general?

www.bookon.com.au
Have you tried talking to them? Bring up your concerns and make it apparent you are interested in one of the other positions, and see what they say. I wouldn't assume unless you've already brought it up and they were unwilling to do anything about it.
Ah. Pardon the half-thought. Hard not to be cynical given that a French secret service scuttled the Rainbow Warrior at the French government's behest.

And yes, I think we should be cynical about the French court. After "People United", we should be fairly cynical about the US courts, too, at least with respect to any cases involving ordinary citizens vs corporations.
Tell your boss that the work isn't fulfilling enough and if he doesn't do anything about it start looking elsewhere. You're in an industry where demand for your labor is much higher than you probably realize.
My own experiments in doing this (http://search.cpan.org/~simcop/Language-Farnsworth-0.7.7/lib...) suggest that it's not so much a pit that you climb, but one that you keep digging in until you hit the other side of the planet.

EDIT: link to actual start.
This is where you might want to seek wealth management. Google it you will see a few household names that you can trust, if you are in a big city they deal with these values daily. Have them propose a couple scenarios. Try to only evaluate them on 1) what are they saving you in taxes/fees 2) what are they charging you for their service.

With this amount of cash, you want them to BID for your business. They will do so by offering proposals.

1) this should be easy to evaluate. it's just math. But, they may want to setup some entities to help you take advantage of the tax laws (eg. capital gains vs income).

2) remember they are commission driven and make money by funneling your "cash" into their brokerages and other services. negotiate. this will be highly dependent on what you want to do with the cash once you have it

Hear them out, choose the best solution / provider
> When measuring individual photons, you get particle behavior.

Actually, you get wave properties (interference) even with a single photon at a time. This is why it is so fucked up...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment#Interfer...
Uh, why are we petitioning the White House? Do we hope that Obama will veto it when the bought-and-paid-for congress rubber-stamps it? Oh, just answered my own question.

PS The link doesn't work. It seems whitehouse.gov is under construction. <shakes head>
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Poaching is the modern developers equivalent of "climbing the ladder" or getting a promotion. There is a limited ceiling for someone who is dedicated to their craft. They can go into management and "lose half their brain". They can go out on their own, but being a founder isn't for everyone.

There is no real loyalty. Companies will lay off their employees when money is a concern. Employees will leave their companies when they can make more money elsewhere. This is business. It's not personal, right?
This should work for everybody:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petitions/popular/0/...
If they have to individually pass 10 15-page bills to get 150 pages of legislation passed, that's still progress.
Hm, the question is, why are you getting tired of Python? What are you looking for instead? Better performance? A more dynamic language? Extensible syntax? Something more math related; or less? Good concurrency/parellelism? Friendly community? Something obscure, different or more "enterprisey"? ... If you know the answer to that, it will be clearer where to look for your next language.
I have, and for the most part, he wants me to wait it out. I've waited quite a while already really, and I'm not really interested in being led on once more.
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Querer es poder, tambien aplica para bajar de peso.
Are we sure this isn't a spoof?
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I don't think that the screen size is weird. It's good for people who don't want a size bigger than an iPhone but smaller than an iPad. I could see myself using one for commutes.
Because you have a phone or an e-mail address.

I got a call from a recruiter once who said "So Rails, is that like Java?"
I'm finding that to be not so true.
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Don't be afraid to make them explain things and definitely shop around. It's money, not magic, so you should be able to understand what you're getting into before you sign.

Also, talking to your accountant (assuming you have one) might be a good first step in at least getting recommendations about who to talk to.
Take a look at definition 1 in your post.
That was fun, I tried to paint a happy sky and a landscape, just like Bob Ross does on his shows. But I think I did it in the wrong order. Wonder if you could capture some of the pictures as they were being doodled and then show it as an animation, then let people vote on their favorites.
Do you upload your personal data on the 3rd party server like Dropbox?
Do you upload your personal data on the 3rd party server like Dropbox?
It took me a while to figure out what I don't like about the design, but I think it's just the yellow highlight on "anonymous": it the throws off the colors and visual balance.

More importantly, though, it was quickly clear what exactly the site did and how it worked. I'm impatient, so I appreciate that.
Hmm, well I like the fire quite a bit (I'm using it to play games,read in bed at night (the ipad has been pretty large to bring into the bed with a cuddling girlfriend) and having something larger then my phone to use while commuting); there are some minor software bugs here or there (which can be sadly expected a day or two into release) but nothing I don't think will be fixed in time as amazon has a lot of it's prestige riding on the fire

side note unrelated to this specific review.. a lot of the folks reviewing the fire have iOS and it's current ecosystem ingrained into their minds and switching to a different platform can be very jarring and confusing and I think a lot of that is slipping into these reviews.
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This is very interesting news, but I am scared that there will be a bit of a backlash against this post because of its political nature, on HN specifically.

How do people feel about Ron Paul's standpoint on Net Neutrality?
This is on the todo. Thanks!
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I don't deny that past eras took their hidden psychological tolls as well -- for example, "the problem that has no name" that Betty Friedan wrote about. However, the fact that women's self-reported happiness levels have declined considerably between then and now seems to indicate that our own time may be worse for them in the aggregate. I also question the assumption that all those extra marriages ensured by the non-acceptance of divorce were necessarily unhappy. I've never heard anything about domestic violence or infidelity being more common back then (unlike, say, prostitution, which has experienced a precipitous decline due to the easy availability of casual sex).

Whether or not the old order is unworkable today depends on what you mean by the old order. The culturally-enforced economic dependence of women on men probably would be unworkable, but that's not what I'm arguing for. I just think that people would be happier in a society more oriented towards family formation than our current one. We do have some control over things like this, and part of that control comes in the form of the values we choose to teach to our children -- which, as you may recall, is what this thread's original comment was about.

I'm not saying that the past was better than the present or that I'd like to return to it. I do think that we should stop seeing the past as irredeemably tainted by its oppression of women and minorities (or whatever) and assuming that it has nothing to teach us. All I'm doing is criticizing our present time and its prevailing values.
You don't have to dick with sub-par literature. Prof Krishnamurthi's 1st-rate book is already available for free. It's Essentials of Programming Languages-like but much more approachable.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/

Stuff like John Cranshaw's tutorial is outdated. If you know a modicum of Lisp you can start hacking languages in no time.
We're at the totally opposite end of the spectrum, working with Pre-K to K. There was some earlier talk about dealing directly with schools, but that's a difficult path to walk.

http://www.kindertown.com
It has more value than that. It gives visibility to important issues, and to the fact that they're being ignored. And that results in news stories that increase that visibility even more. I plan to continue signing these petitions.
Congrats. It is not clear from your wording if you are seeing a tax attorney to handle your business or personal finances, or both. md1515 is correct, there are specialized use cases for an LP for personal finance, unless you start to get into asset protection type or capital gains treatment schemes. I have some friends whose wealth is in the 1x-3x range of what you posted. One is in the energy business; he lets Brown Brothers Harriman handle a large portion of his assets. Another co-founded one of the top HFT firms in the nation; he's diversifying into various more conventional investments. The third was a principal programmer in that HFT firm from its early days; he self-manages and is doing some angel investing.

As you can tell, there is no one "right" answer. A lot depends upon your life goals and risk profile. The first friend is nurturing a generations-old wealth. The second is trying to propagate generational wealth. The third is trying to establish generational wealth. If none of your financial advisors have asked you to set down on paper what you want to do in life and how much it will take to fund that ambition, then you might want to center yourself and put that down to draw a starting line in the sand. From there, you can talk to them about how much volatility you can stomach, how much needs to be drawn and when, etc.

It cannot hurt to get second and third opinion advice this early on your tax implications before the sale closes. Bob Hope was famous for deferring a lot of his pay into capital gains forms once he made enough to live on, and this greatly magnified his earnings over the years. If there is a portion of your sale that you are willing to put into that form, then now is the time to talk with your tax advisors about it before a more adverse tax treatment is taken upon your sale income.

If you feel at all uncomfortable with the advice you are receiving (including and especially mine!), then one option is to take the uncomplicated tax treatment hit now and sit on the gains until you are more comfortable with a specific set of actions. There are far worse situations to be in than paying a large tax bill now and parking the remainder into [CDARS](http://www.cdars.com), then taking whatever time you feel is necessary to gather your data and thoughts before you pull the trigger on structuring the gains. As my CPA tells me, some of the biggest tax payments he oversees each year are from clients who are too busy making money to complicate their lives further with tax efficient structuring. The interest alone on say, $10M (after taxes and fees) in CDARS, is around $100K, which should be sufficient for you to step back, take a deep breath for a year, and figure out where you want to go next. Even taking into account the "opportunity costs" of a naive tax treatment, that is really cheap insurance against hastily making a catastrophically bad decision in the heat of the win.

You can also contact pg, he certainly can give you advice programmer-to-programmer.
Affirm means to say it [again] (without adding any more information). It basically means "Yes I really did/do mean it".

Confirm means to check again.
Discussion of specific points of Ron Paul's beliefs has always seemed a little pointless to me. If you understand the basic things he cares about, you can accurately guess what his opinion and explanation on almost everything will be. So any discussion of a specific topic is either shallow or derailed into a much broader political discussion.

It doesn't feel productive.
HN community standards treat meta-commentary of this sort as almost always on topic and appropriate.

Since the top comment was insightful and correct, and may be even more valuable than the original article, it's been upvoted.