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Also, have a look at this phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war Digitally mastered recordings DO SOUND BETTER on low-grade sound systems (that's the reason for their existence after all). But on a quality hi-fi system, those only make your ears bleed (as jockway mentioned). So every time I spend 15 Euro for an album, I'm virtually playing the lottery, as I have no idea what will I hear from it. There are regions (Japan mostly) where they sell way better (not digitally mastered) recordings, but as mentioned, I can't buy if I don't go there. So now guess why piratebay is the best source of music... (I can at least hear it before dumping it - if it's no good).
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It reports completely bogus entries for me, which I never visit:

Blogger - admin
Bing
Google search (UK)
eBay
PayPal
MySpace
LiveLeak
Playboy
Sears
Lowes
Newegg

These are besides entries like Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn, Reddit - which most other people here are visiting.

If this is based on actual info taken from :visited selectors, apparently they are useless (maybe these are reported because of banners or scripts loaded from those sites or something?) and one could do a better job by just faking it.
Commit a criminal offence against a website created for a technically competent government agency?
Mountains and buried ice on Mars
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If you've been in a sector for 10 years, I imagine you know who within that sector has money to spend. There's no point in going after a segment without money, right?

Once the segment has been identified, I'd then think about the sales process-- how well are you poised to sell to the decision-makers in this segment? Keep adjusting until you have a good fit.

Then, you turn to the final piece of the puzzle: what do you need to do to get these people to put their money in your pocket? What products or services do you need to provide? Generally, this means looking at a problem they have that is currently underserved; not necessarily a problem that no one else is attempting to solve, mind you, but one where you see an opportunity for competition or disruption. Sometimes, this means solving a problem they don't know they have-- if you can find some way to cut their costs or increase their revenue that they haven't thought of, for example.

When in doubt, look inside their organizations for critical processes that are still being done by Excel spreadsheets, and build a better alternative to these.
> They also announced that the first boards are not $35, but will be sold at auction to the highest bidder.

Some might be put off by this move, but I like it. I really like how straight-forward raspberry pi is about having no problem of making a profit with people who just want one for geeky reasons. I certainly don't need one, but I want one and I will certainly bid at an auction and hope that this move benefits the goals of the project in a long run.
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Erm, I was referring to British Aerospace Engineering, the weapons manufacturer.

Actually directly handmaking bombs to drop on pakistani kids is definitely more evil than making shit games.
dumb question: is there a way to pay Amazon for AWS fees except for credit card? 'cause i was wondering how can you create big infrastructures on Amazon if you cant pay by wire transfer or some other kind of link to a bank account (like phone and gas bills)
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Delivery services have been using routing software for years. UPS got a bunch of press attention for it several years ago. The concept of a crusty old lumbering behemoth that won't embrace new technology is largely mythical.

Market disruption doesn't involve increasing efficiency, the incumbents can always increase efficiency the exact same way you did, on a massive scale. You have to somehow alter the market itself, change what the customers expect.
> I'm sorry, but there is really nothing 'magical' about annotations. It is simply a marker on a class, property or method that other code can read from and do things with.

That is the magic. You escape your default programming paradigm of sequential statements and start doing metaprogramming.

The reason there are annotations is that the java language wasn't capable of doing certain things without annotations. Some of us think that java shouldn't do these things.
It's only recently that most of us could have direct access to people in the rest of the world.

We're slowly waking up from our post-WW2 bender, but some people need more time than others. And others are deadly serious about American Exceptionalism. They really believe in it and won't be swayed by contrary evidence.
A bartender is allowed to make a living, but a songwriter or independent software publisher is not. Interesting perspective.

I guess we could exclude other professions as well -- why not doctors? Medicine should be practiced only by those who are passionate enough to do it for free, don't you think?
Imagine it on a﻿ smaller scale when they bring beer.
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Nice anti-Microsoft diatribe. All of it is horseshit. I especially loved your taking of Silverlight rumors as fact.
Well, going to http://www.gutenberg.org/ and finding books from there is enough for me!

I got the Kindle 4 for my wife and now I want one. I think the Amazon store is a little nasty (there is no "confirm" screen during purchases) and so on, but I think there are enough sources of ebooks other than Amazon.

Authors can now surely offer ebooks directly from their sites, instead of involving a middle man. I don't know why this hasn't taken off.

It would make for a nice return to the artisan age, where we bought stuff directly from the creators.
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Isn't The Economist an English magazine, not an American one? I'm not saying the sentiment isn't irritatingly self-congratulatory, but it's weird that this view is coming from a European mag rather than an American one.
Everything on the web points to the opposite. Ads in the long run are always more profitable.

Besides, nothing guarantees that the quality of the ads will stay the same. When I bought my Kindle 4 I reasoned they looked well now because the service is pretty new, but we'll start seeing all the abhorring ads we see on the web soon enough.
Path's new implementation of the timeline looks and feels more mature in my opinion.
Very random results. I used this on Firefox (beta nightly) and on a fresh start got no entries. When I opened Facebook in another tab then quickly ran again, it said I had gone to Facebook, Twitter and Blogger. When I retried, just Facebook. It also said I went to almost all the eCommerce websites without me having visited any.
Dup, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3302049.
"Oct 6th 2011, 16:43 by G.I. | WASHINGTON"

Looks like they have writers in other countries.
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You weren't wasting your time, you were becoming a technology generalist. It's a useful skill!
you can get them now - see diydrones
Heavy lifting on construction sites involves quite a lot of unknowns and is safety critical. Some excavation could possibly be automated on probably on greenfield sites. Depends very much where you are building. In the middle of pretty much any European city for example, building the foundations almost certainly couldn't be automated much more than it is all ready. This is because you never know what you will find when you are digging. Example, how would you do auto plague pit detection? There is a fair amount of automation on sites already, piling rigs are semi-automatic and use relative GPS for setting out and various monitoring systems to control the speed of drilling and inflow of bentonite etc. Where automation will work best is when you have an easily defined problem. I don't know why we still bolt steel framed structures together, this is a problem that could be relatively easily automated with robots to lift, hold and weld up the pieces.
It got just youtube right for me. Considering the websites it's saying you might have visited, there's a high probability of getting at least some right because a large population on the internet visit those sites. Looks bogus to me!
I read those lines differently: The US has an appeal for talented people worldwide (if you work hard, you will be successful) + 50 competing states each with their own government style so you can move without leaving the country + lack of trust in the government (less regulation) = economic liberalism. The economist always advocates this.
The social proof needs to be higher on the page. I would have closed the page before I got to it, thinking "another bunch of nerds writing software that nobody is ever going to use" if it were not a "Show HN".

(I'm easily convinced that you can write decent wiki software, and I'm easily convinced that local wiki's can have some value. Getting people to actually use them is the hard part, and you actually have a decent story there.)
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This is highly commendable effort. I have been the lead programmer of an India based travel search engine, so understand the value of this data.

Another problem to be solved is: Building a cache of seat availability. Basically, the Indian Railways guys can not provide the availability fast enough. And it affects every body - from end consumers using their websites, to OTA sites, to travel-search players.

I can't understand, why no body in the Railways IT dept. (i.e. CRIS) thought of having a PUSH based cache. The way it can work is each reservation/booking done causes a PUSH onto the state of the seat availability cache. Which is a very fast cache (probably based on memcached).

If they allow me, I can code the cache for FREE, for them. Provided they also stop being so possessive about their data. And allow for apps like yours and mine to flourish, which ultimately benefit the traveler.

EDIT: minor rephrase
We (10-person startup) actually migrated from TFS to Git a few months ago. The technical migration was mostly smooth (found a TFS->Git export tool); like many other people, the main issue's been the DVCS culture shock. I was "lucky" to come on right as we were beginning the migration (which I ended up leading by default), so I haven't had all of the TFSisms to work out of my system that everyone else did.
OK I get you, I guess it is all in personal comforts, I personally don't suffer tech bravado well, I have run across that arch-type in real life too may times and it has always made (for me) getting good ideas done difficult to impossible. To the extent that when confronted with it, too many times, I will disengage, whether it be a site or a project/job/activity. I have come to understand that it is born out of stubborn ignorance and that it cannot be, or I do not have the capacity to, navigate around it, I therefore choose to not engage it.

On the flip side I can see where legitimate comments getting down-voted could be taken as rude, the ones I hate to see are new people asking legitimate questions and then getting dog-pilled into oblivion, but it is the nature of the site. I do wish there where less of the i don't agree, or my comfort does not like what you say down-votes but for me it is preferable to the "i'm always right" personality. I never really thought about viewing down-votes as rude, save for the occasions where it is evident that it is a group think dog-pile.
Why is it ridiculous? Is there some reason why innovative people would spread themselves evenly throughout the world?

It may or may not be correct, but it's hardly ridiculous. If innovative people attract each other, you'd certainly expect some places to have a greater than average number.
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I use WebFaction. I know that there's a stigma against shared hosting, but WebFaction has worked really well for my purposes so far. They have many versions of python available and it just seems like they've been dogfooding or something (they might just be good when it comes to taking in feedback) of that nature, because it feels like they've covered all the bases. If anyone sees this and wants to give them a try, add "?affiliate=arvinja" to the URL and I will get a bit of money for it. :)
Yeah...cmdrtaco should write the job description he seeks, not the resume! His resume is the worldwide community of nerds he has helped grow ...
just give it a try: I visited none of these websites before checking, it got it right, then I opened Amazon, Twitter, ... and they were detected perfectly!
Better to say "that Google will penalize your site". PageRank is a calculation on the link graph of the web, and nothing else.
Agreed; being a scientist until finances forced me into a sordid life of programming, the mental models I learned in basic science courses have been invaluable. While it wouldn't hurt you to learn (with the calculus) Newtonian mechanics and 19th century E&M, plus organic chemistry (if you have a talent for the latter), biology is filled to the brim with models that by definition work in the real world and little or no math is required to grok most of them at the general level.

So I recommend a college level general biology textbook, whatever's a current replacement for the classic one by Helena Curtis. Check the 7.01x courses here: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/ , two of them use the same general text.

The courses say you will need as background high school level biology (that's for sure) and chemistry (you can probably cheat here, I did the first time without difficulty).

Beyond that there's lots more specialized texts that cover areas you find fruitful, from, say, molecular genetics (I don't recommend general genetics (boring and complicated), but the whole DNA->RNA->proteins sorts of things, viri, etc.) to, say, animal and perhaps especially insect behavior.
Foxconn could open a factory in Texas tomorrow and get enough Mexicans to staff it by the end of the week but our laws won’t allow them to pay the low wages they pay in China.

This is unlikely. Mexico is more than twice as rich (per capita) as China ($9k vs $4k gdp per capita). Why would people leave Mexico just to earn lower wages in Texas?
> You don't expect to get a pair of jeans for free just because they are too expensive to afford do you?

I don't expect to get a pair of jeans for free, but not for that reason. I don't expect to get a pair of jeans for free because nobody offered me one. If someone did, I expect Levi's to stay out of the deal, because it's none of their business. And more generally, I don't expect to get offered a pair of jeans for free because nobody can manufacture them for free, and because I can't trivially copy a pair of jeans. Given the availability of replicators in the future, I expect to get jeans and many other things for free.

Someone has bits and offers to provide a copy. Someone else wants those bits and takes them up on the offer. A copy occurs. Nobody else has any business getting involved; any third-party control over that transaction can only occur artificially. That doesn't represent a statement of morality, just a statement of how the world works. Re-examine your claims and consider what assumptions you've started from.

You don't have a natural right to get paid by someone unless they agree to pay you.
People should be as keen to join the race to the lowest wages and most economically efficient conditions as they should be for trickle down economics. Countries like Germany and Japan compete on a manufacturing level without workers having to accept Chinese wages and conditions. So it is possible, it's just not the easy path to take.
Glad to see other people using vmtouch. It's also great for keeping large codebases in the filesystem cache on [shared] dev machines.
Bad headline, very bad.

Water was definitively found on Mars years ago, this story is about finding what could be a large quantity of buried ice.
I'm sure someone has done a study trying to account for it, but it seems you also have to take into account that the small companies, taken in aggregate, are trying out tons of things simultaneously, most of which will fail: often one big incumbent is being besieged by hundreds of startups who each think they have a new angle. So even though one small company might eventually win and look like geniuses who did it on a shoestring budget, the machine that produced them, so to speak, involved hundreds of companies and a lot of resources all gunning for the incumbent in parallel.
I'm really interested in seeing the algorithms and implementation behind the solutions.
This was addressed in the article. If you have a killer app, and are able to market it well, then of course you'll make the most money in the biggest market.

99% of apps on the Apple App Store only make a handful of sales. These are the sort of apps that would likely make more money in a smaller marketplace like WP7.
Same here. I enabled it after reading the code and it detected Facebook and G+. The latter is possible (links from HN), but I never go to the former.
It also failed to detect some of the others.
Agreed, the headline was very misleading. It makes me wonder if the OP even read the article.

Also the original headline was "Mountains and buried ice on Mars" not quite the same thing as water on Mars.
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If this is based on actual info taken from :visited selectors, apparently they are useless

It's not, it's based on trying to load some URL from the website and measuring the time it takes. If you went there, it should be on the cache and take much less time to load.

It doesn't seem to work that well, though.
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Yeah, although oddly enough, G.I. (Greg Ip) is Canadian: http://www.economist.com/mediadirectory/greg-ip
Just as a point of clarification, Facebook has an incredible existing product design team, but the last year's new hires/acquisitions have yet to prove if all the new blood adds up to the best, e.g. just because you hire a bunch of amazing individual designers, it doesn't mean they're automatically and amazing team.

That said, I have a lot of faith in their culture that they will become so; team-building is just never a given.
Thanks for all the insightful comments about how this "didn't work for you" or "I'm paranoid so I survived this"?

It works. It works enough of the time and on enough browsers to be very relevant to anyone who cares about the privacy/security of internet users at large.

This is an impressive proof of concept, and an important thing to be discussing, yeah?

[EDIT] To clarify, I tested this on Firefox 8.0.1 on my 2011 iMac with Lion and it worked flawlessly one by one as I visited the sites "Facebook, Reddit, Flickr", they turned from gray to green in each subsequent test.
After noticing a comment on the site, I checked the "Disclaimer" pages on the 2 official sites (Both don't allow storing this data in any form). However, the 3rd source http://indiarailinfo.com/ is not affiliated to the gov.

Are there any NGO/organizations that could push for such data to be made public in India? I'll try getting in touch with CIS (http://www.cis-india.org/).

Disclaimers on: http://www.indianrail.gov.in/disclaimer.html & http://trainenquiry.com/StaticContent/disclaim.aspx
True, some places will have a greater than average number. But the implication does not work the other way, that people from that place have a natural tendency for innovation. Nor the inverse, that because my parents were not on US soil when I was born does not preclude me from being innovative.
I'm from the USA and find most of my country to be pretty nauseating. People bragging about American innovation is just a brief dizzy spell that soon passes once I stop rolling my eyes.
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I am not convinced that technology is what changed the equation between management, workers, and investors at a large company. Sure, with globalization and automation and there is simply less demand for workers despite their increased output. But more importantly I think the ever increasing world capital grew faster than economic growth which means capital is chasing ever worse investments. Combine that with diversification and investors stopped keeping management in check which enabled them to drain the increased efficiency from technical improvements for their own gain.
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"He was lucky."

Luck plays a part in everything. It's lucky that we live on the third planet from the sun, which is habitable, so you were able to get your PHD.

However, I'm really tired of people attributing success to mostly luck, which is what it sounds like in your post. Winning the lottery or gambling is mostly luck. A successful business takes about 1%-5% luck. The rest is skill and/or intelligence.

Everyone has potential opportunities that pass them by on a daily basis. The ones that can recognize them (with the skills/intelligence) and actually decide to act one them are successful. I had many at my last job and nobody else saw them because they just didn't have the skills.

"Netflix didn't become a giant through streaming content. They parlayed DVD money into a streaming business because the whole industry was making a very obvious shift in that direction. I mean hell, if they were half the geniuses that the author makes them out to be they wouldn't have selected Silverlight as the backbone of their service."

If it was so obvious why didn't someone else do it? It's not like they had the most money? Also, everyone makes mistakes, even "geniuses".

If it was mostly luck. I could sit here and do nothing and I would have a successful company tomorrow. You and I both know this won't happen.

"All I saw was a group of lucky people in one industry try to jump into another industry that appeared deceptively similar, and just because Hastings is their CEO doesn't make me think he's intelligent. If anything he's demonstrated that he doesn't fully understand the economics of splitting media."

Strange how "luck" as you say seems to follow them around. You get lucky in one industry and make millions of dollars and then you get lucky in another similar industry and have the most popular streaming service in the world.

"The Quickster Announcement came off to me as a very stubborn businessman, tricked into thinking himself intelligent and a captain of industry by his fabulous luck, making a rash decision to vindicate a strong opinion he had behind closed doors."

Yeah, that was a dumb decision.
> Pirating something does not deprive the owner of 100% of its value or potential earnings. Nor is it 0%. It's obviously somewhere in between, on an aggregate level. Like between 30% and 70%.

"potential earnings" does not mean "value". You have no fundamental right to get paid; you need to convince people to pay you. If you don't like it, don't provide your work in the first place.

Copyright deprives people of a non-zero percentage of the value of a work in the public domain; you claim people don't have the right to that value in the first place. My ability to resell a used lamp deprives the lamp maker of the value they'd get by selling a new one; they still have no right to prevent me from doing so.
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Write speed with index dropped to 0.27 times of write speed without index after inserting 20 million documents