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Many Thanks.

If I understand the OpenAL spec right, there are
alternative attenuation models, inverse square as
well as exponential decay.

Do you have any pointers where I can find under
which circumstances which model is valid?
I can't see anything on the spec or the IASIG PDF.
I'm all for it, transparent business models!

Also, I will no longer tolerate advertizing in my paid content. Seems great, when do we start?
The email client ? :)
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I find it strange you suggest web users should no longer trust services like flickr/facebook/picasa to stay around and keep hold of your precious photos, but you're aiming at consumers and guiding them to services such as S3/Dropbox...

Why is S3/Dropbox more likely to stick around than anything else?

I get that you offer hosting on essentially any filesystem, but the main message is somewhat mixed, don't you think?
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Less cynically, Stack Overflow is about specific answers to specific questions. Any question broad enough to be interesting to a site like Hacker News is too broad for Stack Overflow, apparently.
You think only guys watch porn?
We are probably talking days, not hours here. But your underlying photo metadata is already gone.
Maybe I use the word wrong, but I'm an introvert and I'm certainly not shy.
I think the Internet has conditioned me to think of Evony whenever I hear the phrase "Free Forever."
Keyboard macros.

Multiple buffers, and windows against them.

Followed closely by mode-specific buffers (c-mode, etc.).

Buffers with command shells are the bee's knees. I love those things.
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Dictionaries aren't necessarily a good reference for technical terms.
Who's voting me down? I answered marshray's question.
Great. Ideas:

- outline the currently selected item in the left column as clicked (and remember the setting between sessions)

- allow the shifting of the left column over to the right side (and remember the setting between sessions)

- allow searches by the url (that can jump to the first result)

- optional: dot each property/function that is new to the latest release of that modality (for learning purposes)
There is a lot of difference. They've basically killed the social bookmarking and moved more towards those funny-pics, funny-videos portals pointing towards different sies.

You can take a look at the previous HN discussion about the relaunch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3042207
Makes sense, but it's insane. More general answers are more generally useful than specific ones, by definition.
Have you seen Roy ? http://roy.brianmckenna.org/
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I'd put equal money on Helena Christensen
There's actually been much debate towards whether pornography can even be considered art, thus calling into question whether a Hitchcock or Coppolas of the Adult Film Genre can even exist.

I personally am of the belief that porn isn't art, due to its use and audience. When someone views porn, the pornographic material is almost invariably acting as a means to an end, namely satisfying sexual desires of the viewer. Art on the other hand isn't a mean to any end. Art is to be appreciated for what it is.
Thanks. I just assumed if value is being transferred, as money/assets rather than experience or knowledge or something else intangible, then the transfer involves "selling". That is just my default assumption in business.
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Yeah vote him back up guys. We're just having a friendly conversation here.
Don't call Windows 8 "largely irrelevant" until you actually use it
Thanks for the feedback. The .org page is primarily for early adopters who really want to know how OpenPhoto works, developers and theme designers.

End consumers will wind up at http://openphoto.me (think wordpress.org vs wordpress.com). The consumer site was designed by myself who has no creative talent but it's geared more to what you were suggesting (I hope). It needs a lot of work though.
Why is it praise-worthy to jump the band wagon?
Hrm, a book! I hadn't thought of that. Great idea!

Seriously though, all this great feedback will be implemented :).
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The article implies there have been problems with withdrawing your own money. I've never seen that come up in any of the stories over the years. Has anyone experienced that issue?

I never withdraw less than $5000 at a time...
This is a nice idea executed well. Don't stop here.
Slightly unrelated, but what you should say is visuals instead of "design". It would be pretty impossible for you to actually mean "design" and have your statement be sane.
The sentence you quoted is poorly phrased, but taken with its following sentence as a whole the meaning is still there.

"A school that has only profitability as it's goal will be outed as such in a free market, and will not be chosen by consumers that care more about their children's experience. Schools that provide the best long-term experience for the students will have the best profits, no shady practices required."

The reason why the first sentence is poorly phrased is because the second sentence says in effect "if a school really has profitability as a goal, it will naturally avoid shady practices because otherwise it will be destroyed." It's a classic example of short-term vs. long-term decision-making, and in this case suggesting that long-term profitability requires that no shady practices are used for long and will beat out short-term profitability employing shady practices.

It's not a towering argument in favor of free market education, but I'm not sure that University of Phoenix is a counterexample. Do you have more information on this? My understanding was that their main evilness is taking advantage of the public non-free-market federal student loans business to get more students and money instead of lowering their prices, which is what some say would happen if you took the government out of the equation for public and private loan backing.

My own view is that education costs are tightly tied to the school brand first (which includes the most general brand of being able to say you're college-educated anywhere, which is very important for many jobs and shouldn't be (the knowledge yes, not the "spent time at this location with these people" part)), administrators next, then professors, and the actual knowledge somewhere further down near the bottom. MIT's OCW is just one of many places showing you're not paying for the information, but for status, facilities, and someone to help you learn. So education costs aren't so much a public/private or profit/non-profit problem but a cultural one.
Yes, this is part of why I reacted the way I did. I'm looking for an 'expert' to review it, not an average infosec nerd who groks C. I just wish my friends who did crypto knew how to program =(
What about the porno chic movement?
This is ridiculous. Google is purposely designing their sites to use more Ajax so they can take down Firefox? This has to be a troll.
Its a stupid feature. It should not take 11 days of all available senators time to register an objection. It is an unjustifiable waste of expensive people's time and effort/opportunity cost.

Put aside "its always been this way" and work out something better - shorter, and to similar effect. As important as SOPA is, its not as important as many other things going on in the world right now, wasting senator time in this way is so daft.
It's by design. Our system is built to prevent what the framers of the Constitution called 'tyranny of the majority'.

A small group can, if it's sufficiently organized, stop something like SOPA.
I think it may have been sarcastic praise.
Just curious: Who's going to read them?
It's not about S3/Dropbox/etc as much as it is about decoupling the service from the storage mechanisms. Once you do that then a whole lot of opportunities present themselves which otherwise didn't exist.

So yes, Amazon may ditch S3 but if the file system is decoupled from the service you're using and there are adapters for alternatives (which there are) then it's trivial to migrate without any "loss of service".

That's the worst case scenario...which isn't too bad.

Note, there's local file system and mysql adapters as well if you don't trust Amazon/Dropbox.
No, because the existing standard DNS protocol is terribly insecure.

Also, because it's insecure, you can't productively opt on to a more secure provider.
is this his mother?
This issue has been raised and discussed quite at length at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657554
(article was in essence the same list).
How important quantum physics is for biological systems is in my a very important question for the coming decades. It could turn out to be not important at all except for isolated cases like this. It could turn out to be important, but easy to simulate on a classical computer, and so amenable to study using today's tools. It could turn out to be very important and ubiquitous, so much so that large scale simulation is intractable. If that turns out to be true, then there is a strong case to be made for building quantum computers to attack this problem. I think most scientists think the first or second option is most likely, but if the last opportunity occurs this will represent a major shift.
Oh I have upgraded, and there are things that I like about it. However the title "What you are missing" isn't really addressed by showing a bunch of benchmarks. Having a real-world section talking about subjective performance on actual sites used by people would have done that.
Based off all the feedback we will definitely make it easier to digest.
The dialog to "Tell Columbus more about you" never loaded for me with Firefox.
Ok, so if a bunch of folks write about a given scientist - 2 being friends of the subject, the rest not - then by this logic the resultant copy they create as a collective should be objective. Great, problem solved.
I didn't personally write this script but you should totally submit a pull request :)

https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/blob/master/documentat...
Thanks, no plans on stopping anytime soon :)
unless you take the obvious extension to how humans process worth, significance, interest, and unusualness in order to derive "famous."

in which case it is clear that the topic asks why porn stars are more famous than scientists.

and that it is also clear that the topic asks why porn stars are considered more significant than scientists given the numerous noble achievements given to mankind by scientists.

let's take a step back for a second and see if we can re-read "noble achievements given to mankind" without snickering.

In short, whatsoever gets attention on wikipedia deserves attention by dint of it having gotten attention. that's the whole point, innit?

So we're really just complaining when we try to draw more attention to scientists. Just as we're complaining if we're irritated that pokemon trivia gets more lengthy treatment on Wikipedia than important historical battles/chemical reactions/poems.
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I can't tell if you're being serious or joking....can you rephrase? :)
Is this site designed to be read from across the room?
Ron Wyden, senator of Oregon.
If you're still categorizing art into "not art" and "art" you have a long way to go. As you say, Art is to be appreciated for what it is.
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How fucked up are the US cellphone carriers?
Nobody mentioned Programming Language Pragmatics? It's a pretty great text about how programming languages work, knowledge that's imho a prerequisite for any decent programmer.
Does magit actually work in git repos on remote servers?

Edit: Holy crap, it does. That's going to be useful.
JVM bytecode is runnable on the JVM. LLVM bytecode is runnable on what?
I am not clear on what you mean. Most of the time when a PayPal account is frozen, you can not get any money out. My PayPal account was frozen for almost 2 months, back in 2002. I had about $1,200 in the account, and I could not get at any of it. It was a painful episode for me, as I was broke and had been planning to use some of the money to pay my rent. PayPal asked for a lot of documentation from me. They wanted me to prove my address, but as I rented and moved around a lot, it was difficult to do so. I had to get a friend to put me on the electricity bill over at their house (the friend's house) so I could get some paper documentation that PayPal would accept. They hung onto my money for a long time.
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Hmmm, Windows or OS X? I haven't had any problems or other bug reports. If you don't mind emailing the details to jack@seatgeek.com, I'd be endlessly grateful.
I really wasn't impressed by the finance/banking Khan Academy talks. They seem worse (adjusted for grade level; they seem to be designed for "general adult, non-academic or professional interest") than the algebra/geometry classes (assuming those are aimed at grades 6-12.)

What I'd like is something at the MBA curriculum level (e.g. Wharton Finance) or the training programs used to bring physics phds up to speed on finance as quants), and executed well. Unfortunately this is probably considered a proprietary/competitive advantage for these firms, so they won't release it.
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> So you are going to store data as XML blob, and then use XPath to query it. You get to use XPath, how cool is that!

I think you've missed my point.

Storing XML in a field defeats normalisation and the benefits flowing there from. Being able to query it with XPath just doubles the number of query languages that I will need to know and keep track of in the database.

If you want to store XML blobs, use the file system and XPath to your heart's content.
Really I was just trying to illustrate that the author is being cast as overly emotional when describing a very calm and restrained response to an irritating situation - when in her situation I'd probably be livid and far more emotional in my response. As would most guys.

Almost every guy in IT I've ever worked with gets emotional, angry, sarcastic, abrasive, abusive or annoyed when stupid and inconsiderate people (ie users, coworkers, bosses, jerks in general) waste their time or make them deal with unnecessary stupidity). I've never heard anyone suggest that those guys were menstral, or unsuited to working in IT because of it. Guys working on call after often short tempered, upset, frustrated and generally emotional from the lack of sleep after a lot of call outs - but when a girl goes through the same thing, guys in IT are often and consistently dicks about it, and act like they don't behave the exact same way.

Girls cop a huge amount of gender biased abuse in enterprise IT (in my experience and observation) and generally take it with at least as much grace as any guy takes user stupidity - and then has to put up with user stupidity as well.

I'd never have survived in IT with the shit the girls I know have had to put up with. I'd have found another career very early. When a woman with legit tech chops and a decent length career behind her in IT isn't a man hating bitch - I generally think she should get a lot of leeway for having a bit of a temper - not the kind of lynch mob response that showed up in a lot of the conversations about Rachel.
Not put there last time, but a recommended reading on this topic is http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-f...
This looks lovely. Is the Elm-to-JS compiler posted up anywhere public?
Implemented a partial compromise, but IMHO all sites should be designed to be read from across the room. Comments on the article text welcome.
Hey, this is my project! :) I am surprised it got posted here, but I am also glad to see people are interested.

One note on the title of this post: Elm compiles to HTML, CSS, and JS. Not just JS! I think this actually an extremely important distinction! It differentiates the project from templating libraries which still ultimately have you think and write in HTML. It also distinguishes it from scripting languages (like CoffeeScript) which also only address part of the problem. With Elm, you shouldn't need the mental model imposed by HTML and CSS which I think will be a really great thing.
what a boss.
May well be run from the repl always.
The reason not as many paid services are acquired is because they don't get enough traction to entice a buyer.
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Yep! And when he's done with it, he will read The Great Gatsby.
Round my parts the most famous Dane is Prince Frederik (sp?), because he picked up a real estate agent while on holidays and turned her into a princess. Still the classic holiday romance story. The trash magazines are full of the royal couple and their children, and they get regular mentions on the nightly news.

You can laugh all you want at Royals and Royal Weddings, but they still have a positive impact on international relations, which I'm pretty sure was their original use case 10 centuries ago.
Wikipedia actually doesn't really care about you being "worthy" of notice or interesting. What it actually cares about is that if there are reliable sources that could back up your claim, which is what Notability is mostly about. It's there for a more pragmatic reason, of writing a encyclopedia where contents could be verified by an external source.
Ask PG: Showdead has lots of constructive comments from hellbanned users.  Why?
After turning on showdead, I tend to notice that there's quite a few comments that weren't there before that don't seem to be spam and are often times quite insightful. From clicking on the username that posted them and then looking through their comment history, it's clear that they've been hellbanned and nothing they say will ever be seen with the default options (or by a web crawler).

Admittedly, there may be a reason for this that isn't obvious, but it still doesn't seem right.

Is there any recourse for these users? Should they be notified of their status in any way, since they may post with the intention of getting responses?
The primary focus is getting people using the software hosted or self installed.

The business model is on the hosted side via freemium + premium services.

$25k seemed like an okay threshold to prove market validation. Less than that and I wouldn't have felt comfortable enough people wanted something like this. It was not related to the actual cost of building OpenPhoto which has far exceeded that so far :).

The Scholar App we abandoned because the education space sucks and has too much friction for innovation. Hopefully others stick it out there because we are in dire need of innovation in education.
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Having just visited that page, it's unfortunate that the wholesome-looking young lady currently in rotation asking for donations appears at the top of it. Sometimes banner ads can really not suit the page content.
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I was never asked to retract the post, and under Oregon Retraction Laws denied that law because I am a blog and not TV, or Traditional Broadcasting.
Why use Elm versus Flapjax?

(Not a criticism -- sing your own praises!)
Paypal was the first to rise to the top, and has since benefited from the network effect. It's only been about 5 years since the average American started to be comfortable buying products online.
The reason is they are more notable! As in, More worthy of attention or notice; remarkable. As a group, we certainly pass more remarks about pornography starlets than theoretical physicists.
If you're up to writing it then let us know as we're hosting official libraries under the OpenPhoto account on Github.
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Me, too. I'd much rather see a company with near-zero marginal costs spend money on a free tier than on sales people and marketing programs. It's so much more revealing to actually use a service than listen to a salesperson or trial a service for 30 days.
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The problem is, notability in Wikipedia is different than notability you are used to in general language. In fact Wikipedia notability is a misnomer.
> How will they make money?

Paid plans.

> I'm not sure if I want to host my product on the same server where free loaders are.

Then don't.
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Very good points that I can't disagree with at all. However, those are two languages I try to avoid entirely, not just partially. ;-)
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This surprises me. I didn't think they'd take submissions for the beta using the current preview sdk. There are a ton of issues and missing apis.
I completely agree with you guys, but hey, i am not the creator of this website.

Just found this link and thought would share as it is pure fun.
Oh, I had assumed you were selling the app and not going to show ads.

Displaying your own ads might be something to think about - collecting user info over time and delivering highly targeted ads might be more profitable.
Ditto. Reminds me of my limited, yet enjoyable, time with Verilog
In the youtube link posted by freehunter http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3320245 the tablet actually has a remote control with it.
I think geeks have severely irrational expectations as to what they are "owed" by someone just because that someone has created something which they used or enjoyed.
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Very nice!

Note to self: they got the data; they added a value; they presented it nicely and neatly. Good data mining business model.

Note to jack7890: as it comes to events, there are two factors that play a role here: time (you got that in the calendar view) and place (just partially in the "theatre view"). I have two ideas for improvement. How about showing events in the calendar and color code the distance (e.g. red close, blue far away)? Alternatively, you could show a 2D map, user in the center, events spread on the map and color code the time (e.g. red - soon, blue - far in the future). You can have user put zip code or get it by IP (might be not accurate for mobile devices, though).