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Yes, I keep hearing about pitot tube problems... I thought the Egypt Air flight I was thinking of had the same problem but I can't find information about it. It might be harder to find because I'm not sure the plane actually crashed.
It's not really a strong statement. I'm saying it will have unintended consequences.. we don't know what they will be, but since it's so drastically different than the conditions we've had, I can't imagine we'll adjust "normally"
Seeing this and the MythBuster's cannonball debacle next to each other gave me a scary chill.
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It is called "creeping determinism" or simply hindsight bias.

http://www.gladwell.com/2003/2003_03_10_a_dots.html
While I don't really do any of these, I would second this recommendation, Rails and Django are growing where PHP has kind of peaked.

For me personally I don't use any of them anymore, I write web apps with JavaScript/CSS/HTML and I write back end services with Java or Node. Once mastered it is simpler than the server side frameworks, but it require understanding of the core technologies, it may be a little daunting for a beginner to start writing apps this way, because no one has packaged it up into a platform like ROR. You have to go out and assemble the pieces because they have not been assembled for you.
An excellent video on the phenomenon from the "Engineer Guy" series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Ri_HhziI0

And just in case you feel like killing about 20 minutes of your day, check out the rest of his videos. They are excellent.
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Some tablet computers before the iPad looked very differently. Others... not so much.
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Our eyes don't "see the world as a rectangle". The reason that newspapers, etc. are rectangular has more to do with efficient space packing (and linear text, as the author mentions) than the inherent capabilities of the eye.
His drawing of the "optimal" shape clearly shows that while the back is curved to follow the curve of the hand, the back is still symmetrical, so when the Pad is placed on the table, it lies flatly on the surface, and the front of the Pad is completely horizontal.
Yep, makes perfect sense: develop a cheap, cost-effective nuclear reactor design with someone who is a big competitor to the US, and who our children will most likely have to fight a war against. Yeah, perfect sense.
> Most people aren't evolved to resist serious strains of flu, but when an epidemic happens the next generation will be those who were.

It's true because diseases kill unprepared and leave only the (more-less) adapted. So far neither obesity nor computer games were successful in killing people on the mass scale fast enough. Also, we're actively engineering the computer games to be as immersing as possible. If a 'resistant generation' pops up, it'll probably at some point engineer addicting games for itself.
I can't help but disagree. The implication here is that there is no other way to design a tablet, as if progress is officially halted now, and Apple's design is the only design can ever exist.

He mentions the New York Times suing over the design of a newspaper, but if someone else used the same fonts, sizes, layouts, and more to exploit customer confusion and make a newspaper that looked like the New York Times, the New York Times probably would sue them.

Besides, Samsung's tablets are a very obvious case of copying. It isn't just the shape. Everything is a clone of Apple's designs--the chargers are the same, the cables are the same, the packaging is the same, the home screen icons look the same (Samsung even stole Apple icon artwork and used it in their store)--it's completely obvious that the goal was to make a knock-off of Apple's design. Anyone with common sense can see that just by comparing the two devices.

Bad, cheap knock-offs can damage the original brand. I don't blame Apple for going after Samsung at all.
What about a quick search for Star Trek tablet:
http://www.inventinginteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/...

Star Trek PADDs:
https://www.google.com/search?q=star+trek+PADDs&hl=en...
This Article: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201112/evernote-2011-company-of-...

Has slightly more depth and seems to suggest that they are launching small semi-independent "studios" to work on other memory-related problems.
You're right. some people will be. I rather not take my chances personally though. I'm humble enough to not want to fight against 1 million years of fine-tuned evolution.
True, but it might be interesting to gauge what percentage of HN readers actually do have options.
Some did: http://www.2imgs.com/6c941c36e5
The author must think that design is adding random colors and textures, because he keeps saying things like:

"none of this is a design problem. It is all about usability"

"The shape of a tablet has nothing to do with design. It is simple logic."
There is no central credit score — each lender (or credit agency) creates its own sets of rules as to whether you're good or bad, all with different criteria. Some of those may package it up as a "score", but that's essentially meaningless. Checking that your credit reports from the major agencies (Experian and Equifax are used by about 90% of lenders IIRC) are accurate is worth doing from time to time, especially if they're offering it for free (although as the maximum they're allowed to charge, by law, is £2, be careful that the "free" version isn't a way of sucking you in to something else)

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/loans/credit-rating-credit-... sets it out quite well.
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ah, thanks. That's good to know. I didn't make it to Page 4 (in fact, I didn't even notice the page navigation beneath the author bio -- bad design)
China: The Real Threat to the World’s Economy
The media is all over the European debt crisis in the eurozone and appears to be pushing aside the evidence of dangerous stalling economic growth in China—the world’s largest manufacturing country. Europe is slowing and this is hampering the demand for Chinese manufacturing.
It's also known as superstimulus; relevant LW article: http://lesswrong.com/lw/h3/superstimuli_and_the_collapse_of_...
Exciting! It really does make sense to rebrand SproutCore 2.0. As a (light) user of both 1.x and 2.0, I completely understand the change. So much has been simplified -- the barrier to entry has dropped considerably, and the boilerplate factor is basically gone. Yehuda and Tom have done a great job with SproutCore, and I'm excited to use (continue using) Amber in the future.
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I've been looking for bit of a career change. The ideal case would be doing something with consultative sales that leverages my strong IT background. I've had success selling when I was freelancing and if I could get them on the phone, in person, or on Skype I had almost 100% success rate.

I went in for an interview, he said he'd put together an offer that afternoon. I've never had a job title with 'sales' in it, so during the interview we talked about compensation being a balance, and I said I'm willing to accept a lower base pay and more commission to take some of the risk out of the equation for him.

I followed up a couple times and nothing came of it. I moved on and then I get an e-mail that basically said, "I was just waiting to see how much do you push to get this done, sorry" I really liked the guy and I feel like we'd get along.

Then he suggests I set up a time to see the offer he put together. I suggested thursday afternoon or friday afternoon. I'm pretty sure it won't happen today. I also feel like this might also be a test.

Is this par for the course in sales? I'm not sure I even want this job, if I feel like he's the type of guy that sets up 'tests' all the time. Two tests before I'm even hired?

Is my spider sense trying to tell me something?
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I know what you're thinking: great, another MVC library for Javascript. But wait: Yehuda knows what he's doing, it will be interesting to see what Amber includes.

As I've discussed before [1], the current discussion about MVC frameworks in JavaScript is very superficial, and meaningful API differences between, e.g. Spine and Backbone, are not sufficiently understood by people who are picking between them.

Yehuda has a lot of experience thinking about framework APIs from the standpoint of modularity, performance, and developer convenience.

He is absolutely right to emphasize that calculated properties and managed attributes on the model layer are the key to easily building JavaScript interfaces. The difference between nice MVC code and poor MVC code or jQuery soup is the idea that in each method data is only flowing one direction: nowhere are you manually updating both a UI and a data object. Two-way data flows make up the majority of the code in non-MVC jQuery-oriented code. In contrast, a robust model layer with lots of events is the best way to get code reuse and composition.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248552
Yeah, that confuses me on a regular basis, too.
Another project similar to this is Forge http://forge.thethemefoundry.com/
Embracing Sass, Less, CoffeeScript is not a bad idea for wordpress themes if you are familiar with them.
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I certainly hope this doesn't splinter the community. Moving the version up, then just forking, seems like it'd do just that.
On related note Income-Tax Dept is lead by talented officers, you may read subtitles on this 4 minute video interview of former Income-Tax Commissioner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApQlMm39xr0
IBM does happen to have quite a lot of patents to counter with. Having been in business for 100+ years tends to do that.
Chapters also does this (here in Canada anyway).
If Marco Arment was serious about Android, he would most likely give up control and outsource development to a talented Android developer.

That's his plan.

http://www.marco.org/2011/12/07/standing-up-for-android
And they all run Windows with a stylus. No capacitive touch screen, no custom app-based OS. It's a qualitative difference.
See, to me, Samsung does have an issue here, but it's not about the "rounded rectangle" shape or the "reasonably thick black bezel": it's the fact they have both of those, like the iPad, but then also surround them with a marginal silver border.

I own both the Galaxy Tab 10.1" and an iPad 2, and I actually do get confused between the two all the time, when looking at them from above. They're about the same thickness and reasonably similar shapes, and with the same "rounded rectangle with a black bezel surrounded by a silver frame" I honestly have grabbed the wrong tablet before. To contrast, I never get confused with my HP TouchPad or my Kindle Fire (although that one is smaller).

I'd be perfectly happy if Samsung just switched to a matte black border instead, and Apple should be too: it would, at least from what I've seen, fix most of the confusion here between the two products.
If every phone sold from today onwards were an ICS phone, and half a million of them were sold every day, it would still take about 14 months for ICS to have a 50% share.

Iirc, Froyo took 8 months, and Gingerbread 12 months (just recently) to reach a 50% penetration of Android devices.
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It's very valid complaint that it should have at least been working under iOS5 even if it didn't take advantage of all the features. Lone developers had access to the iOS5 betas for months. Evernote is one of the flagship programs for OSX and iOS. They should have had access to the beta at least that long and possibly more. In addition to the likely access to Apple resources.
My experience with the gifted program was similar, but I'm not sure it's fair to judge it based on what it accomplishes with it's current paltry funding.
You can add to that the Uren V1, the Samsung Q1, the i7210, the HTC Advantage, the Samsung Mondi, and the W1090, just for starters. Apple did absolutely nothing when it came to device innovation, they just made brilliant, easy to use software to go along with it and gave it a good price point.
A good example of solving a real problem people have, definitely a good approach. I'm an evernote user, I like it, but I see many possibilities for improving UI and features, it's worth trying IMHO.
Congratulations Evernote! I remember being nervous about the leap from release 2 to a cloud integrated offering a few years ago, but that was what made Evernote something that dramatically changed the way I work. It also brought together my Mac, office PC, work BlackBerry, iPhone, and iPad together like I have never seen. I'm a paying customer and I recommend it to everyone.
An interview on the state of UX with Lou Rosenfeld
https://www.google.com/search?q=goldmann+visual+field&tb...

Not very rectangular. :-)
The Wholefoods in NYC at TimeWarner does this. While Wholefoods in California doesn't.
Ask HN: Know of any tests running of email obfuscation methods?
Silvan Mühlemann ran a test between 2006 and 2008 http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/.

Has anyone seen anything more recent?

(I haven't so am starting my own http://www.johnplummer.com/js-html-and-css/email-obfuscation.html.)
I thought this was going to be about http://amber-lang.net/ , smalltalk on javascript. Another project worth checking out.
Odd. Do you buy groceries, or are you posting this from your savannah hut? You're fighting a million years of fine-tuned evolution every time you turn on a light, sit in a chair, wear shoes, go to a store or restaurant, take a medicine, use a telephone, watch TV, read a book or magazine (let's not even talk about the Internet), eat potatoes (not like you evolved in the Americas), bake bread, eat baked bread, use money, sleep in a bed, wake up with an alarm, or let your wisdom teeth grow out because you lived past the age of 35.

You're so far off your evolutionary track there's simply no reason not to go further.
These high school placements into university labs are a classic example of how privilege plays out, converting socio economic status into plausible credentials. Connected parents get glamorous internships for their kids that massively overstated the kids' contributions to and translate into elite college placements.

No one can say these kids aren't smart and deserving, but what about kids who are also smart and deserving but not related to researchers or their friends?
I prefer math contests where any kid who can reach the library has a downtown tty good opportunity.
Reminds me of http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orgasmium.
Wouldn't it be 3x the velocity, but the line is 3x longer, so your total wait time is the same? The article is mainly saying that people like moving faster, but is that really a phenomenon?
I've always wondered about this. In a similar state level competition, I felt like a giant hillbilly because all the projects were so damn awesome compared to mine (terrible feeling when you've put months upon months into a project only to walk into a room and realize you don't have the slightest chance in the world to win). Some of those awesome projects were definitely home-brew and were better than mine, but even those paled in comparison to the ones that came with professional help.

Growing up two hours away from the nearest real university, I didn't realize teenagers could work on projects like those. It rankles my sense of fairness that many (though certainly not all) of the people in the upper levels of the science competitions got there with a very large amount of help.

Of course, the same logic would apply to people who have even less access to resources than I did, so I should count my blessings.
Throwing more money at "gifted" programs is like an emergency room taking care of someone with the sniffles while the guy with a gunshot wound bleeds to death.

From an economic perspective it just doesn't seem like a valuable use of resources.
I guess if we were to trace the genealogy of the idea, Plato's Republic has the words,

"Now, the true city is in my opinion the one we just described--a
healthy city, as it were. But, if you want to, let's look at a
feverish city, too. Nothing stands in the way....This healthy
one isn't adequate any more, but must already be gorged with a
bulky mass of things."

I tried a solution once, too: I threw away my computer.
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Good news. I wonder though, what will happen to Sproutcore? My former company build a huge application based on 1.4 (at that time), and now they're kinda left in the rain. Does anybody know when or if all the Sproutcore 1.x changes that Apple made for iCloud/MobileMe make it back into SC 1.x?
What happens? He becomes the most beloved billionaire in history? I don't think Steve Jobs needed more help.
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could this be how some viruses were started?
I don't do much mySQL but indexing should be similar to other platforms, I found this slide deck that covers the basics for mySQL http://www.slideshare.net/osscube/indexing-the-mysql-index-k... . It will get you started down the path and from there you can use Google to expand on the concepts. At it's basis though indexing is pretty easy, it makes a map of items that are used to filter a query, think of them as shortcuts to the rows you are looking for. If there is no index their is no map and therefore the DB has to table spool through each record to find it. Composite indexes are where you have two or more columns that need to be search on, so say you have a WHERE gender = 'M' and age = 18 an composite index builds a map for both columns together. So you may have multipal indexes on your table based on your requirements, you may have a single index on gender to improve a query that gets all males in the system, while you may also have an index on age and gender to aid in querying all males that are 18. Most DB have a index tuning engine, that when turned on will analyze queries that come in and make recommendation as to how to tune the DB. I have not used mySQL in a long time so I don't know if they do, if so it would be worth, turning it on, running through the entirety of your app and collecting the data.

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Ha. "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common." - Assyrian clay tablet, ca. 2800 B.C.

It's an inherent part of being human to see the present day as the end of days.
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Will it be possible to incorporate something like this into Node.js? I know it can be done with something like Backbone, and does it provide any distinct advantages over Backbone that would be worth investing the time in this library?
True PHP is weird A Language + Framework in one. Or you can call it a webDSL if you want.
Please give us a proper VM like .NET(Mono is a good candidate), Java, Parrot or whatever instead of yet another crap language(both Dart and JS are shit). Provide a VM level binding layer to the DOM, and everyone will be happy. Really, I didn't expect that a company like Google will be so stupid to do so.
My reasons for preferring pyflakes over pylint:
* pyflakes are fast
* pyflakes is less likely to flood me with false positives

What are your reasons for preferring pylint?
Yes, but you still have to install MSysGit or whatever, which is a ridiculously huge download just to do version control requests. Plus, running the commands to generate public and private keys and all that junk is super counter-intuitive, and the default steps recommended on GitHub won't work on my work machine, as Cygwin can't write to the location it wants to create the key files, and once I got to that point, I just decided to use HG.
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That sounds to me like he failed at something (putting the offer together, getting your hire approved, getting back to you, etc) but wanted the shift the blame over to your side. I've never seen (good) salespeople to sell themselves into a job-they have people competing for them. I think you're being jerked around.
Tell that to someone on $2 a day and see what they say. Tell that to kids who have to literally wade through garbage looking for plastic to earn a living. Tell that to those who are starving in Somalia. Doesn't a little alarm bell go off in your head at all when you something like that is on the tip of your tongue?
Most of the grocery stores in my area have installed self-checkout systems that are especially great if you just have a handful of items that all have UPCs (no produce or bagged bulk), don't have any items requiring an age check and possess at least the intelligence of a fifth grader.

I mention this not just because it's relevant to the idea of waiting in line at a store, but because in every store where I've seen these systems installed, the entire bank of scanners has a single line, unlike the rest of the store. I imagine it's mostly because they place the self-check scanners so close together (because they can) that it doesn't make sense to try to form multiple lines, whereas a single queue system for the real checkers would take up a huge amount of space.
The expectation in the iOS world is that developers work on updating their apps during the developer beta, and submit their updated apps shortly before release when Apple says to (October 5th in this case), and then Apple releases them to the store on Day 1.

In that context, 58 days is 57 days more than a lot of the competition.

Given THAT, it sure does look like Evernote released iOS 5 updates on Oct 4th, so this whole point is moot:

http://blog.evernote.com/2011/10/04/evernote-for-ios-update-...
"Stdin" is the "standard input" to a program. Typically, this is connected to your keyboard input through a tty, but not always.

Node tries to rely on Unix terminology when applicable. If you've never done systems programming of any sort, then yes, this may be a blocker. But, I don't think that most programming language documentation takes the time to explain what "stdin" is.
No, because the cashiers handling smaller transactions finish quicker and can process more people. If you're stuck behind a guy which takes 2 minutes to check out, people in other lanes will be in their cars before you even begin checking out.
I was at a Home Depot this summer in the garden section, 2 checkouts. I was straddling the middle, waiting for the next open lane. Some lady starts bumping into me with a large cart, pushing her way up my right. I looked at her with a frown, and she told me to pick a line. I told her I was 'next' and she scoffed and went into the right lane, and was serviced more quickly (but only randomly)

These little mental models of efficiency always make the nervous introvert in me worry that I am wrong, or if society in general publishes people who try something different.

The naive answer is to avoid retail interactions.
Is this like Backbone?
Why so many mentions about TechCrunch? There was never any indication as to why it is such a focus aside from finding articles about people doing something similar.

For example:
"There’s a plethora of successful businesses, ideas, projects and products, all happening outside of TechCrunch"

Yes this is obvious, but again why would you mention TechCrunch in this context as though there are millions of people who feel it is the central business information repository online?
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