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> I think you're underestimating the degree of bloodthirstiness. I sometimes wonder if Occupy Wall Street wouldn't play better with Middle America if they dropped the whole Gandhi-worship PR schtick (which Middle America seems, by and large, to despise rather than admire) and more openly advocated violence against investment bankers, specifically.

"Middle America" seems to know that it wasn't investment bankers that gave govt money to banks. And, they're reasonably receptive to the accounting that shows that financial TARP was break-even to modestly profitable.

However, they're incensed about the bailouts that are costing money. For example, bailing out GM pensions isn't popular and largish govt worker pensions are even less popular. And then there are the Fannie and Freddie money-pits.
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It would be cool if you could change the start and end times. So instead of 00:00:00 and 23:59:59 I could do something like 09:00 - 16:59:59. Just another tool to get through the day!
Where did you get this idea from? Drinking water isn't going to help you lose much weight, especially not 10-15 lbs in a month.

1-3 lbs a week is a normal rate for people dieting, water alone isn't going to come close to that. It will help keep you satiated but not enough to cut 500 kcal out of your diet a day.
Your solution is elegant.

Question - how are you tracking efficacy of the experiments for the end user?

Are you measuring against engagement / use or?
I spent some time evaluating the original beta of the mono tools for Android a year ago. The support and help I got from other developers and from the mono team was fantastic. Lots of enthusiasm and gracious assistance. It was great to be able to apply some .NET classes to an Android app but (always a but?) for my money it was easier and more straightforward to write Java code directly against the Android SDK than it was to write in C# inside Visual Studio.

Don't get me wrong - it worked - I produced my app but the differences between C# and Java are not likely to act as a barrier to even 'died in the wool' C# developers and while Visual Studio runs rings around Eclipse the IDE is good enough.

I think the mono project is fantastic though - I am a fan. I can't for the life of me see why Microsoft do not support the effort financially.
It is bizarre. The whole page is a sliced image, text included.
Aside from querying it, my biggest problem with storing XML in a DB column has been, in SQLite, the sheer size of it. I've had to move to compressing some of it, but then it's not possible to query it anymore.

Do other databases handle compression and querying simultaneously?
You are not the typical user; what makes 37Signals so good is that they clearly understand just how dumb typical users are and design apps normal users can actually use without having to get their tech buddy to explain it to them.

And honestly, it's not dumb enough. Email dominates the workflow of most businesses because that's about the complexity most users can handle, write mail, send button. I've seen people use Basecamp for weeks and still be confused by the fact that there's more than one tab.
Maybe the author just really likes apostrophes and doesn't think they get enough usage.
Almost 6 USD worth of donations, whoa. :-)
The single most useful Emacs feature
This is one of the modules everyone starts to build themselves, then realizes there's a much better version already built.
judging by your comment and mine it would appear downmods are always for jokes, around here...
I regularly flag anything behind a paywall. Regardless of how wonderful the article may be, being directed to it is a waste of time for anyone not subscribed.
Twitter's top 2011 hashtags: #egypt and #tigerblood
I did a 3.5 day water only fast a few years ago, I remember reading somewhere that going longer then 3 days wasn't that safe.
Apache Subversion 1.7.2 has arrived
The Strange History of SMS as Text Messaging Turns 19
Newton was notorious for all-nighters.
No, it's not bad. It just "is".

As someone else mentioned, some gigs where artists did the deep cuts, and others where they focused on "big hits" would be ideal.

Macca's plumbed the depths of his Beatles stuff - only a handful of 'his' that I think he's never done live. There's loads of Wings stuff he could do live, and loads of 80s stuff that he never touches. A couple of "deep cuts" shows would be great. "Hey Jude" is great and all, but give me "Magneto and Titatnium Man" one more time :)

I saw the Beach Boys (well, most of them) in 1993(?), and they were doing some 'deep cut' stuff - Vegetables(!), Wind Chimes (IIRC), etc. A couple people booed - WTF! I was the only one in the upper deck singing along with this stuff, so maybe that was an issue - there's just not enough people at a 30k seat arena who want to hear the deep tracks to make it worthwhile to do there. Smaller venues would be great though.
Apple didn't have to give out 10 cent apps to hit billions. Just sayin'
When I'm in a store, I like to scan product's barcodes to see what the reviews are on Amazon. If it's a few dollars difference in price, then I'll still purchase the item, depending on if the rating is good enough. If the price is more than several dollars, though, I'll have to decide whether to pay extra for instant gratification, or if it's worth waiting a few days to get to me.

If a store attempts to stop me from scanning barcodes in this manner, I just mark it as a store that is not competitive price-wise and will no longer go there.
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The other obvious thing to do is to shade it to represent day and night.

Though that would require geoip location and a sun rise/set calculator.
Try switching to a ketogenic (ultra low carb / high fat) diet for a week or two beforehand.

The reason you have no focus or energy is due to a lack of glucose (sugar). When you fast your glycogen stores (carbs) will deplete and your body will start running on fat. During the transition, before adjusting, you'll feel slow, weak, and have trouble focusing.
The reason for accidents is usually an unanticipated combination of events. Unanticipated means an autopilot will not have been programmed to handle it.

There are many, many aviation disasters that were avoided because the pilot got creative.
2012 cloud predictions by CEO of AppFog
i just use my account for personal use. selling used things via forums/ebay/cl.
I agree. I'm a 37s fanboy. Web tech has made a quantum leap in the last year. The difference between rails 3.1 and rails 2.8 is huge. Not to mention html5, css3 and new javascript libraries such as backbone-js. These are game changers. Adapting them means a rewrite.
Except 37signals didn't change nothing. The only thing about Basecamp is that it's so easy to use.

What Apple does is innovation. 37signals just makes things foolproof.
I've been in a few stores where they were clearly placing stickers on top of the bar codes to make it more difficult to price check... fortunately, most big ticket household items like TVs have unique product numbers that are relatively easy to search for, but I could see this discouraging a few shoppers.

For things like TVs, Best Buy et al tend to be price competitive. It's add-on things like the HDMI cables and extended warranties where they screw customers with hugely inflated margins.
It's easier and smarter to be in the pickaxe business. All the 'miners' will spread the word online in the form of inbound links, and for free! This type of marketing and propegation is much more profitable than having a sales department. Kudos to 37Signals for being very smart marketers in addition to being talented designers and developers!
For fasting, yes that's true. For a ketogenic diet with adequate amounts of protein, no it won't.
So I was the fifth winner. It's pretty fun. Keep your head on straight and you'll figure it out -- it's about the same difficulty as the qualifiers, so if you have any trouble, try and do them all, I guess.

Also, it may not be obvious that there is a skype element, but the challenge occurs completely in the browser. I finished mine before they called me on skype, so don't worry about that element.
If my business is threatened by several competitors one of the things I might do is hire new people to work on new initiatives.
Chickens are omnivores, not ruminants like cows. They'll eat grass but can't subsist on it. There's no such thing as "grass-fed chicken"; people who say "grass-fed", when they know what they're talking about, mean cows.

Small farms do not flood their livestock with antibiotics to increase yield. It's a bit of a straw man to suggest that people are saying antibiotics should never be used on animals; it's their routinized use in factory farms that's the issue.

Otherwise, I agree: "organic" isn't meaningful, and even the "real" good chicken isn't more healthful (apart, again, from the antibiotic issue), just better tasting.

I'll happily slice up and saute kosher (conventional) chicken breast for a salad or pasta dish. But if I'm serving roast chicken, I use the good stuff.
The problem with PayPal, and the reason why these horror stories exist at all, is simple: the entirety of PayPal's dispute-resolution system seems to consist of "the system flagged it, tough luck". And the only way to get actual service from PayPal past that point is to raise a massive cry of bad PR for them online.

So, yeah: if they don't want to deal with their customers, we can fix that by encouraging a situation in which they have no customers to deal with.
It goes without saying, you get what you pay for. Quality parts, which are required for a quality experience, cost money.

This isn't going to be in the same league as an iPad, or even a Kindle Fire no matter what tweaks or custom ROMs you load.
CNet's reviews are also worthless too. So little content, so many skeletal SEO keyword pages.
cool but might be more useful if it's used as a timer rather than a clock or maybe with custom checkpoints. i don't particularly care about 12am-12am. i DO care how much time i have left at the office. or how much time i have till my bedtime. how far along i am in a task or in my own day, say there's a 9p-5p block, and 5p-11p block and a 11p-2am block. when i'm asleep i cant watch it and it could be excluded.
Their real 'competition' is iOS and native platforms. They never made it big on these platforms, and they loose traction because of that. They must rethink their approach for tablet and mobile, and please...not in HTML5.
At initial glance I thought it was too lo-fi. Then I noticed the visual representation. This is nice inspiration, thanks!
Neat! Here are some pedantic suggestions:

<!DOCTYPE HTML> is necessary to let IE9 work without whining

imageData is slow and I'd avoid using it. In this instance you can accomplish the same effect with calls to fillRect.

As it stands right now, you are setting the fillStyle of the arc each time but only need to set it once since the fillStyle never changes. In fact, you probably don't even have to recreate the path each time, since the last path ought to still be there, so the only thing that needs to be in the loop for the arc is `ctx.fill();`! (Haven't tested, but that ought to be the case)
I ended up buying a TV on black friday at Best Buy that was cheaper than on Amazon, even after state sales tax, which was surprising.
But that example goes well beyond meaningless buzzword boasting into flat-out lying. This is a bit of a different problem and it's a lot easier to fact check factual statements, with or without domain knowledge.
> Which makes me wonder: is this an American problem?

It is a combination of hipster fantasies, delusions, and a hope for a business model.
the animation is awesome. Looks like it took time. yo seriously, hit me up where I work when you need voice over people. Im at Voice123.Got folks who work from home with their own studios and produce this type of stuff at affordable costs.
The best teachers practice differentiated learning, teaching to a variety of learning styles at once. This is essentially using technology to maximize the human element necessary in teaching and then facilitate groups of students who are working at their own pace to demonstrate learning. Keeps students engaged and holds them accountable.
How long before stores start deliberately finding ways to kill cell phone reception?
This is a gem. For someone who just recently learned HTML and CSS (about 6 months ago) I can usually remember just enough to get it wrong. It's handy that you can just start typing and get to the right thing.
Maybe that was true in the past, but today when you delete your data it is gone. Trust me, I wrote it myself. The law enforcement guidelines that have been circulating recently corroborate this.
Perhaps if more of them received the death penalty, it would make the ones obeying laws look better???
Opera 11.60 goes final
This is what I was kind of doing for books in Barnes and Noble: check the contents, read a few pages, then buy the e-book or physical book online. With this app it would make it super convenient to compare prices and order instantly after doing such a thing. I would imagine this will extend to clothing and other things, i.e. people will try the clothes and look at stuff in physical stores then order online if there is no rush to have the item. Who would have thought the online world would be such a force to reckon with?
> I don't know any of them who sit "hands folded:" they're ready to take over immediately in case something goes wrong.

Did you ever hear of something going wrong with the automation?
From a Youtube demonstration[1] it looks a little laggy. Looks like it can barely power Angry Birds at a decent speed. Oddly though, the Spiderman game looks like it runs a bit better. Not perfect, but better. I don't have sound at work, so the guy might be saying something related to his personal experience with it.

It's MIPS-based, not ARM. I don't know if that gives it anything of note. The thing _does_ exist, people have them in their hands. Not saying it's a worthwhile investment, but it might be.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJb3k4fZpB8&feature=yout...
I'm pretty sure my parents, not some abstraction, were paying for those things.
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Like anybody else - stab in the dark, double it and then add 10%.

Is there another system?
It doesn't sound like immediate weight-loss is what he's after here. It sounds like it's more about developing self-control in the face of abundant food, and being able to skip the candy bar. A one-time super-fast exercise may actually be able to help with that.

(Disclaimers etc go here.)
I love this. Stores hate it when people do stuff like this, and that's what makes it so fun.
I couldn't reproduce...looks fine over here.
The FCC strictly prohibits this I believe.
Why change Windows? Eventually all software becomes outdated.
> If a store attempts to stop me from scanning barcodes in this manner, I just mark it as a store that is not competitive price-wise and will no longer go there.

Precisely. If they're doing that, it's because they know you can do better elsewhere.
Hmm. I wonder if we'd find any of Microsoft's installers being wrapped in such a manner.
Clarification of this for those interested in history: The original Mac did not have control keys; I guess NextStep had some Emacs bindings. When Mac OS and NextStep gave birth to Mac OS X, it was possible to keep both sets, as there could not be clashes. I am not sure those Emacs bindings 'officially' exist, though (the human interface guidelines mention the use of the control key for accessibility, but not for text editing)
The FCC’s empty promise of openness
>> thinking of people of 35-50 years old ...

You are in a tough situation if you are in your 40s and need to retrain, because there is not a long period of time to amortize the investment over.

http://norvig.com/21-days.html (Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years)
Somewhere that makes real physical products. And doesn't need ads to know where you are... :-)
> * This is using a plain hash instead of a hash bang,
> which, correct me if I'm wrong, means sub pages are
> not hit by search engines.

Fortunately, you're wrong about hashbangs. They were a temporary hack to allow the GoogleBot to index Ajax-driven pages before the HTML History API existed. Because of New Twitter, many sites have cargo-culted the hashbang without implementing the required "escaped_fragment" functionality on the server-side to make it actually work. It's the web developer equivalent of an SEO rain dance.

Please don't use hashbangs in 2011. Use pushState() if you're a public-facing site that needs to be indexed by search engines.
Wow - this is pretty strong words from ARM
Serious slam!
Are there any plans to add support for a native JSON data type?
Hi anfurny22, it was a JS error that happens for extreme corner cases. It's been fixed now. Sorry about it.
Intel watch out!
Google+ To Take On Foursquare With Upcoming “Check-in Offers” Feature
Wow--way to go Nvidia
Always have 18 months of cash in the bank
I thought by "efficient" they would mean "gets the same work done in fewer cycles", but it appears they only meant that it uses less power. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Chicken leg!
I love buying things off of Amazon, but almost always -- out of a dumb sort of courtesy -- I will buy a product that I became interested in from seeing it at the store. Brick and mortar has its own inherent expenses, and I can see why such stores would get annoyed when shoppers take the best from both worlds: being able to touch and test a product in the flesh and the cheaper prices of an online retailer.

In what ways can a brick-and-mortar store improve their business model to compete with this? Providing excellent customer service and expertise won't do anything to address the problem (as I can always suck up a salesperson's time and then go home and buy the product).

On the other hand, Apple stores have this exact same problem...even more so because a) their markup is even higher than electronic retail and b) the literally allow you to see how much more expensive their prices are compared to online listings, right from their own demo computers.

I don't buy much from the Apple stores but when I do, I feel even more compelled to continue my dumb-courtesy and pay the extra $10-$20 in-store. But I don't how extendable the Apple magic is to every kind of retailer
That's my understanding as well, but they could try some surreptitious methods that would stop shy of using an actual jammer.
They can't prohibit a store from building thick cement walls or putting metal cages around the walls. The only thing banned is cell-blockers.
Choosing a tree for XMAS
Great, it was resolved once it was picked up by some media and someone high up at PayPal realized it was an issue. Nothing about the bad customer service, nothing admitting to any kind of wrong-doing - just "we are truly sorry that it happened"

Being sorry it happened and working towards preventing it from happening in the future are two very separate things, and PayPal is only saying the first. Can someone take these guys out already (Stripe?)
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Did you actually test it ?
That's illegal in most countries, including, for the most part, the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_jammer#Legalities
Looks like Johnnie Walker Blue.

I'm a little skeezed out at having looked at these photos at all, but "name that liquor" will apparently (in borderline cases like this) trump my principles.
Show HN: Google Chrome App Builder
A friend of mine hacked this together, it's a simple form to generate "manifest.json" files to build Chrome apps. - Currently supports Hosted chrome apps Packaged/Extension Chrome apps soon.
This is exactly what I've done at Fry's (50% of the time as they match prices lots of times) and any of the bigger bookstores ever since I got 3G. I'm surprised Amazon, or any other online retailer, has come up with this strategy this late.
Now when are they going to add this feature to their Windows Phone app? Windows Phone already has the capability built-in (through Bing Vision) to scan barcodes and price-match, but Amazon's app adds more features on top of that. Kinda ridiculous that they haven't added that to their app on this platform.
It's not that you are wrong, it's that this risk exists in every payment processor. Paypal anecdotally looks worse because it gets MUCH more press than other payment processors. A service that handles this better is a unicorn.
In its fundamental conception, I do not think that IP suffers from the broken window fallacy.

The fallacy goes like this "Breaking a window must be good for the economy because it employs glaziers". It is false because, although the glazier (window repairman) gets work, the person whose window got broken loses (and therefore does not spend elsewhere) at least as much money.

In the case of IP there is a benefit to the inventor/author/IP-owner (just like for the glazier) and there is a broadly spread cost (just like the person whose window it was and those she would otherwise be spending money with). However, there is a key difference: in the case of the window, nothing new was added. In the case of IP (patent and copyright, not counting trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or others), the inventor/author/etc creates something NEW, which benefits all of society, and which they might not create if they were not motivated by the IP rights.

Notice how this argument shows us what could go WRONG with IP law so that it was no longer a net benefit to society. If the rights granted to the individual are significantly more than it takes to motivate them to create (such as copyrights that last for many decades after the author's death) or if the IP grant is given for something that does not benefit society (such as patents on inventions that anyone could have thought of) then IP law is no longer benefiting society as a whole.
Because they cost an arm and a leg for small aircraft.
Think $20K.

Unfortunately regulations and liability costs make anything in aviation expensive. So most small planes are running around without tcas.
Not to get too analytical or philosophical, but I think it's because clocks normally represent time cyclically, as a repetitive process counting and displaying a sub-set of an ethereal infinite time set. Whereas this clock visualizes time spatially in known, limited, diminishing quantities.

The depressing part is either that this forces you to realize or reminds you that time is, in fact, limited -- or that it tricks you into thinking time isn't infinite, depending on your philosophy.
No, I only negotiate the deal. Follow up is generally limited to answering questions, sending notice letters, change orders, etc.

You don't hear anything about them (except maybe a press release that no one reads) because they're always highly confidential. If my client has a claim, they use Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
I would say just the weight of the pilots, their seats, the extra structural support and reinforced door, and the need to wire control surfaces to the front of an airplane vs it's mid section etc. Your probably down ~2-4 passengers.
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Retailers aren’t all lumbering behemoths being driven into extinction by online merchants. Many have figured out that they are actually running showrooms and charge the manufacturers rent for displaying their wares. Supermarkets have been playing this game for years, renting shelf space by the foot to people like Coca-Cola.

Meanwhile, people like WalMart make a business out of logistics, they only carry stuff where they have a strong financial advantage. It’s not impossible, but it’s hard to beat their prices when you factor in shipping.

It will be interesting to see how Amazon and WalMart match up against each other over the next decade. I wouldn’t be surprised if WalMart start displaying higher online prices right beside their merchandise in the store.
Poll: How many mobile apps do you use on a daily basis?