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I have to admit this remark doesn't quite compute (e.g. people who "have more IQ" can adapt their POVs more easily, etc. etc.) and the Roman calculation example, i.e.

"It was based on a few things from the past like how smart you had to be in Roman times to multiply two numbers together; only geniuses did it. "

is baloney. There were three method of calculation in the Roman times (e.g. see http://books.google.com/books?id=bfgRxVzjbMYC&pg=PA79.... Multiplication (or division) was handled by a combination of table look up, which is also a common technique in Babylonian and Egyptian math, and using the abacus to handle resulting summations. It was no walk in the park, obviously, but you didn't need to be a genius either. Incidentally the word calculate stems from the small pebbles, called calculi, used in an abacus (see here for a fascinating discussion on Roman calculating boards and abaci: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57572.html).
Maplovers should check out the Ordnance Survey maps you can get of Great Britain.

Because there is so much less countryside to cover, the detail you can get is quite amazing. They are a very interesting thing to peruse.
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So Google is not allowed to offer incentive for anything? Any sort of affiliate program brings it's share of junk content.
There are two issues at play here: one is actual recording production (which in the case of Nick's songs is reasonable albeit homespun) and actual content.

Out of tune moments - they happen to really amazing musicians (especially when performing live) and a lot of what you're calling "production" these days is just auto-tune.

That being said, he's not, never has been, nor will ever be a "diva". The style of music doesn't necessarily call for it, although that's not to say that he hasn't worked on improving his voice over the years - mainly with a focus on unamplified street performing more than intonation and accuracy.

Really, though, the goal here is to allow a musician to connect with anyone who enjoys their music - not to make anyone like it or convince them that it's great.

Because those people are not going to be common (let's face it - we're never going to see Spunky Junk Tambourine performed at the MTV VMAs), what I'm interested in finding out is whether or not simply taking the same approach as busking but broadcasting it to a much wider audience will allow Nick to make a living from his originals in the same way as he can make a living singing Khe San at 2am on a Sunday morning (and having people steal his tambourines :)
Excellent article! Really enjoyed the explanation of how all the different parts fit together.
tried to find a tool to help me incorporate css/js combining and minifying into my deployment process, didn't find any that modified the html for me, so I rolled this. brain dead simple, but it's useful for me, so it might be for you.
Firefox and Chrome get updated every 6 weeks. Microsoft pretty much ignored the browser until Chrome and Firefox started gaining market share.

IE6 - 2001

IE7 - 2006

IE8 - 2009

IE9 - 2011

IE10 - 2012

They are picking up the pace because there's so much competition. Unfortunately, it's not quick enough.
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This looks really good that Amiina is using: http://www.topspinmedia.com/ still it seems more complex to me than the "couple of bucks" and very simply downloadable tracks - I really wanted this to be as close to busking as possible but on the web.
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You're right. I didn't jailbreak, but I remember having the same kind of issues. I found that Worms would run much better if I restarted the phone first, I assume because it was easier to allocate contiguous blocks of memory.

But it's a game by game thing. I don't remember ever having problems with Flight Control or Peggle. Even some fancier games don't seem effected, while Angry Birds would hit the problem. Interestingly, Angry Birds would get better if you went to the level select and then back into the level.
Google had a similar, but more widespread paid referral program for Firefox with Google Toolbar for a few years.

http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ct...
The maintainer of GNU ed is also the author of lzip.

Though lzip predates xz, this GNU ed release is the first .lz file I've ever seen in the wild. Everyone else that distributes .tar.gz files (compatibility) along with .tar.something_else files (higher compression) seems to use bzip2 or xz, not lzip.
I'm not talking about ads I'm talking about ranking, and not even that, as ranking links doesn't really strike me as the way of the future, I'm referring to when Google shows a map for a location query and flight prices and schedules for a flight query as these are also search results and they are more useful (and prettier) so not only do I find nothing wrong with it but I find it to be the right way to go.

Also regarding that antitrust meme the Microsoft comparison keep getting mention, I'm not really familiar with that case but as I see it, Windows you buy and you are stuck with, Google on the other hand is free to use or not as you please.
Fantastic stuff. I have found responsive design forces me to think as carefully about a button on my large-monitor designs as it does on my mobile-designs. It is a wonderful process of cut-this, cut-that until you have something simple.
Can you create large map images from tiles that can be turned into a poster?
Andrew, I just watched the video and reading your summary here actually helped me a lot in synthesizing what has been told in the interview.

I just wanted to let you know I got a lot of value in reading your summary too. The tactics outlined in the interview stood clearer when you wrote them in a list.

Thanks for everything you do with Mixergy.
I focused on the first one I clicked. It took a lot of digging (like searching google and clicking the first link), but I found some counter studies: http://thepaleodiet.com/published-research

Either way, to each their own. My research and experience has led me in a certain direction, and the results in my personal health and those around me have been fantastic. In all actuality only time will tell. Obviously the state of current knowledge in the area is widely inconclusive. Best of luck to you.
uhh..this is a valid way to test an unsure idea. Not sure why I was down voted....
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When I did this (I actually did it just before Christmas but didn't post until now because I figured no-one would notice if I did it at Christmas) I actually registered the domain mp3busking.com thinking that if this thing worked, then I could provide a directory of similar artists that have very simple pages where you can directly download DRM free mp3 music and easily pay the artist a couple of bucks.

From what I've seen, almost every "indie distribution channel" puts a whole bunch of technology over the top of this that's supposed to make things easier but just sort of acts as a barrier - I really wanted to have this really friction free experience, as close as possible to the process of throwing a couple of bucks in someone's guitar case as possible.

PS: I've never been able to figure out how the hell reddit works. Do you know of a sub-reddit that would be a good place to post this thing? I've tried posting to reddit before but I think I always get flagged because I post into the wrong place or something.
My biggest beef with the lean startup philosophy is it seems to encourage engineers away from working on deep, hard problems for a long time.

But it doesn't. If the result of working a deep, hard problem is a solution that the world obviously needs, then the LS methodology does not push doing "MVPs" or whatever. So if you're working on a cure for cancer, or a cheap, clean, renewable energy source, you wouldn't be following this model in the first place. The whole "lean startup" / "customer development" approach is meant for dealing with case of extreme uncertainty, and especially in regards to market/customer knowledge.

It's all too easy to release something basic too early, see it inevitably "fail", and decide to "pivot" based upon this.

Anybody who does that doesn't understand the Lean Startup approach, and isn't doing it right. Every change isn't a "pivot" and you don't go pivoting at arbitrary points just because of an isolated bit of negative feedback. The idea is to find a market for the original idea, as conceived, and pivot only if a market cannot be found (or created) for that.

I feel this is often a symptom of a deeper disease: either not having courage in your convictions or not building something that you could see yourself (or someone you know) using regularly. In short: in creative endeavors it is sometimes healthy to have bias in your views based upon intuition and not direct evidence ("I don't care what the A/B test said, we're going with this idea anyway") because sometimes this intuition can lead you down corners that break you out of local minima up to another plateau.

Agreed... there is a place for vision and intuition sometimes. Unfortunately there's no easy way to know when your intuition is actually leading somewhere. It's a battle we all face.
What a great side-project! I wonder how long it will be before we are comfortable with the idea of self-driving cars on the road? The transition will be slow but I think it is inevitable. Humans are less reliable than robots. I hope.
Right, if you are going to be sending email out for notifications of future products then you should probably set that up as a separate option and make it double opt-in. That's what most services do. In other words, they have the sign-up and then there is a checkbox or something similar which says something to the effect of "notify me of future blah blah blah." If you don't check that box then your email is typically only used for things like resetting your password.
Google was banning blogs doing paid reviews from PayPerPost and others. Now they do it themselves...
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If you added a column and you want to revert back, you just drop the column again! What's so hard about that? No 'migration' needed.

In BASIC you can 'declare' a variable by simply using it. The compiler will not warn you if you use an undeclared variable. That's the analogous situation here.
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Which of the first two items on my list have been solved?
A sectarian word for factions.

Tomato Potato

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Sectarian:

of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian

limited in character or scope

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Faction

a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique

party spirit especially when marked by dissension

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You would be a fool to claim that sectarian skirmishes are not also political, given the widespread theocratic nature of governments under both muslim and jewish rule.

In this case - this is an attack, while premised on the appearance of religion, is actually a theocratic/political-religious attack.
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Ah, yes. I was speaking only in the context of a criminal investigation/prosecution. The page you linked states: While polygraph tests are commonly used in police investigations in the US, no defendant or witness can be forced to undergo the test

It appears some states may allow the results to be presented, but sounds like it cannot be required.
Regardless of the theory, Google is not filtering low quality content from which it has the appearance of benefiting...and the apparent double standard being applied, I believe was the point of the original article.
It's ironic that my anti-dogmatic stance (None of us has the right to dictate the behavior of strangers) came across as being dogmatic (Thou shalt not dictate the behavior of strangers).

Of course you're right that this is how the world works, from a Collectivist perspective. The Individualist perspective, which I tend towards, asserts that individual happiness is far more important than any attempt to "optimise behaviours".

There are many choices, from outright dictatorship to various levels of democracy.

Tyranny of the majority is not inherently preferable to the tyranny of a dictator. The other end of the scale is self-ownership, which is not widely practiced today.

At the end of the day, my giant sign isn't harming anyone, and no one's forced to look at it. Restricted speech in the name of "cleanliness" is not acceptable in my book, but from a Collectivist perspective I guess it's alright.

If that stance invites ridicule, I accept -- just as long as we all remain mutually respectful about letting each other voice our opinions -- and that includes businesses and politicians.
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Node.js sandbox - executes untrusted JavaScript for embedded scripting
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3418468

I ended up writing that
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"Granted it’s not a Huge Enterprise Design – but if it was I’d probably break out the app into separate apps."

That was exactly my thought as I read the recent onslaught of Rails-hating posts.

I can understand how IoC and SOLID and --favorite-software-engineering-acronym-- make a huge difference in big monolithic apps. But a SOA is different. You can't inject dependencies into a service (at least I wouldn't want to).

Breaking out an application into different apps is the solution in my eyes. It keeps problems isolated and forces efficient black box implementations across services.
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Sal from Khan Academy said it best: "I would make the US Education system more American (promoting creativity, ownership of learning, and independence) and less Prussian (moving together in an assembly line)."
Ask HN: Most accurate way to find a users location?
Note: I'm the least technical person on our team.

We are building omnom.com and use Maxmind GeoIP to populate our city dropdown with nearby cities (click on city tab of homepage > view dropdown)

It's pretty inaccurate. Our options are: Upgrade to paid to improve accuracy, use different IP location, or find some other type of user experience for people that want to browse/not put in their address. I would love any feedback/help. Thanks
I used responsive design for my resume site (shameless plug): http://judy.github.com

It's not perfect, but I wanted to make sure that potential employers could at least read my site anywhere, even on mobile browsers. And I think that's more important. For content-based sites, more designers are moving past pixel-perfect designs, and more on flexible designs that don't necessarily look identical everywhere. They look GOOD in any environment, including odd browser sizes. It's more pragmatic.

If your website is actually an internet app, then I would prefer a native app for mobile OR the app designed for the mobile browsers, like you said.
The US and Norway are not similar. Norway and Finland are similar.

Finland is similar to many US states, the level of government responsible for education.
Juries don't set precedents.

The precedent affects the directions given to the jury by the judge, and can generally only be changed by an appellate court ("the direction given by the judge in x case was incorrect and therefore the conviction should be overturned/the case retried").

Regardless of the direction given, juries are generally entitled to return whatever verdict they want (see jury nullification). If a judge (correctly) directs them that a sniffer dog alert constitutes cause for a search they may still acquit.
East/West Germany is the clearest example around.

West Germanys post-war 'economic miracle' was largely guided by Austrian school economic thinking, while East Germany went the other way. This is the clearest A/B test ever devised of implementing two different economic strategies on a homogenous population. North/South Korea is also similar, but less so.

Most people don't even understand what the Austrian school actually says. That's not surprising, most people who comment on Marx have never opened his book, either.

For the record, it's based on the freedom to trade backed with strong rule of law using sound money. It also prescribes a lack of intervention by the government in the economy, mainly due to misallocation of productive resources and the likelihood of government intentionally or inadvertently creating monopolies that harm the consumer.

Probably the best introductory book on the subject is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson - Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. Even if you oppose the idea, it's good to read and understand the theories and supporting arguments properly.

For the record, West Germany abandoned this model during the 1960s and moved towards a more social democratic model, and the USA hasn't tried it since before the 1930s. The current economies of the west are nothing like an economy under Austrian principles, in the same way the Chinese economy is nothing like an economy under Marxist/Maoist principles.
Seems a wee bit arbitrary. And convenient.
At best, IP Geolocation will get you to a nearby city; it won't get you down to the neighborhood/block level reliably.

Try HTML5 geolocation. The user has to give permission (through the browser), and its not universally supported, but, the results tend to be pretty solid. http://html5doctor.com/finding-your-position-with-geolocatio...
Yes. Stitching the tiles together is relatively easy. Depending on the specific tiling scheme, you may be able to do so without any depth of knowledge in geography.

That said mapnik [1], the rendering engine used to generate tiles, is a general purpose geographic data renderer. You could use tilemill as a tool to generate the map style then use mapnik directly to render your map at any pixel or geographic dimensions desired.

[1] http://mapnik.org/
Great point. I wonder how the Freemium model works for something like Splunk. Do free users constitute a completely different universe or there is significant conversion of free to paying users ?
Not entirely - it gives people a way to say "Unix-clone" without getting sued.
Obligatory Steve Jobs reference:

Google's don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.”
In terms of body text, typography isn't meant to attract much attention. The common reader shouldn't notice subtle differences. Bad typography is easily noticed and feels wrong. Good typography communicates as it should and doesn't command attention. Readers might not consciously notice differences, but they might feel them. Some poorly-designed blogs instantly make me feel claustrophobic. If they opened up the line-height on the body text it would instantly feel and read better. In the same way smaller differences in a font design can change its feeling, character and legibility.

Type designers spend much time adjusting subtle nuances of a font to evoke a certain feeling as a whole.
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Interesting reading.

My main concern is that the engineers changed two variables for the test: the hardware and the software.

They compared standard memcache on x86 versus a modified version of memcache on the Tilera chips. The modifications are not minor -- they changed the way requests are handled so that multiplexing can be done in parallel. That multiplexing step is, per a loosey-goosey application of Ahmdal's law, probably the actual performance constraint on the x86es.

I think a better test would be to backport the Tilera version to the x86 chips and then run the tests again. Then they'd have a better idea of what degree of throughput performance is given by the hardware and what degree by the changes to the software.
> flight prices and schedules for a flight query as these are also search results and they are more useful (and prettier) so not only do I find nothing wrong with it but I find it to be the right way to go.

Certainly you might not find anything wrong with it; but if Google were to show ITA flight information in search results, with a link to Google Travel (hypothetical) to purchase the ticket, Expedia, Kayak, and Travelocity might be a little unhappy.

> Windows you buy and you are stuck with, Google on the other hand is free to use or not as you please.

The consumer being "stuck" with Windows was never an issue in the Microsoft case, but rather that they used their dominance in one field (the OS) to gain a significant advantage over a competitor in another field (the browser). If Facebook were to ban the sharing of Google+ links on their network, they might be in similar trouble.
Yup, it looks like there are options to export to svg and pdf (among other formats).
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Google is paying people to generate junk content

It seems silly to me to get mad at Google for paying, what, ten thousand dollars in affiliate payouts, incentivizing cruddy posts, when they simultaneously collect (and pay out) billions for the ubiquitous AdSense ads which you find on sites which, charitably, span a wide range in terms of content quality.
This is my point. Finland is a much more socialist country than just about anywhere else, as most Scandinavian countries are. They (as a society) have already agreed to much higher income taxes, plus completely nationalised healthcare, transport and many other industries.

I don't mention this to say whether Finland is right or wrong in these respects - it's a democracy so I support their decisions in any case. However, it would be foolish to say that a model of nationalised education in a country where a lot of other things are state-provided can necessarily be exported to a country where things are much-less state provided.

To me, there is too much focus on the school part of the education - education is clearly the output of parenting, societal attitudes as well as the school curriculum and teaching methods. Schools aren't an island - they live in a national culture, economy and even geography. You can't just import a different teaching style into a society that may value education differently (eg is being a truant a taboo thing to do, or something that is secretly valued in an anti-hero way) and expect to get the same results. Even the amount of time parents spend with their children will have a different result.

The best outcome to take from Finland is that there are many different ways to Educational outcomes - probably the most important is that the best fit between national culture and resources should be explored. Perhaps the national (or state?) culture needs to be slowly changed before the educational system can follow. Perhaps the idea that Federal input of education into 50 different states is a bad idea. There are many things to look at.
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3370695
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I don't know how you could be more wrong. But to go down the points...

Misguided vs Evil: An evil person tries to do the wrong thing while a misguided person does it on accident. How is that hard to understand? More importantly how is that not relevant. An evil person can't be convinced by their nature while a misguided person can.

Force vs Conversation: This is only true if the people passionate about SOPA have the power to force someone to do something. They don't. Their goal is to convince enough people to join them so they will have the power to do something.

On companies going down in flames: First, GoDaddy is not going down in flames. The internet community clearly doesn't have the power to do that as has been shown. So trying to deal from a position of power when you've been proven not to have that power is a strategy.

Second, what point does this example make? You're trying to make companies give up support for SOPA but, BY DEFINITION, these are companies that already support it. They can't go back in time and not support it. So how does killing GoDaddy even after they've folded do anything productive?