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Is there a reliable way to fish out whether a user's browser has been to any of those recently? I wouldn't put up a single UI element on the page that doesn't help the user in some way, let alone a bucketful of them.
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I'm not totally sure on how to square "a lot more emphasis on public file sharing" with the fact that I could never find even a search box on their website.
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In other words, JavaScript doesn't return a Promise/Future/Task<T>, so the defer syntax is necessary. You could get rid of it by simply capturing the callback params and returning them as a value, though your code would end up having a lot of `[0]`'s in them, since most callbacks are of the form (thing, err)
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Short URLs (very common in the QR code space, for making a smaller code) quickly circumvent this solution. If I see "bit.ly/asdf", I'll assume they just shortened their URL.
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I consider it aggressive because your substance was arguments against things I never said.
Apt analogy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
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Wouldn't be more expensive than anything the oil or heavy infrastructure majors undertake on their own today. Yes, a multi-billion dollar project all in, but that occurs in stages.

The time horizon is a problem. But everything I said fits the 4-10 year infrastructure ROI test. Not that I don't expect the first projects to have anything short of heavy government involvement.
The signatories are all members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences but are not speaking on its behalf.
perhaps because of the condescending tone of your "and youve had any success" sentence.
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Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2.

This is demonstrably false, and it is at this point impossible for those who published the article to be unaware that it is false if they made any effort whatsoever to verify it. The quote given has nothing to do with the overall rate of global warming, and it has been made abundantly clear since the quote was made public that it did not refer to global warming.
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> You very clearly were trolling and I will certainly will not apologize.

Well, you'll be happy to know I'll be ignoring anything you post from now on. I certainly won't engage with someone who can't tell the difference between honest fundamental disagreement and trolling.
A long time ago, the US pushed Hollywood because they knew it would essentially be free advertising for everything else the US sold. That's probably unnecessary these days. It's pretty obvious from certain comments that Hollywood is helping members keep their seats (via campaign funding), and threatening to pull the funding of anyone who rocks the boat.

It's like a Hollywood movie, about a beast (or robot) which ends up overpowering its master.
Curebit who? Not anymore. Well played.
Wow, that might be the worst lede I've ever seen in an article:

>Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in the India raided the home of their boss, and beat him senseless with led pipes after a wage dispute turned ugly.

Led pipes and "The India", seriously Forbes?
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Surely that is the risk they took when using content that they have no control over.

If the demo/presentation is that important, then it would be wise to remove that risk by using their own design and their own images.
Could anybody enlighten me. Was a fork of CS the only way to achieve this? Forking a programming language is a pretty radical thing.
I don't think the community in general objects to ownership of music and visual art/entertainment. The objection usually centers around the draconian and unethical ways of enforcing this ownership.

You can support the concept of intellectual ownership without supporting the draconian (and sometimes illegal) means by which some people would like to enforce said ownership. We can also accept the reality and futility of perfect control of your creations without relinquishing moral claim to our creative work.
> Are you not sure if you can use the existing implementation? Well, then your project might take 45 minutes, or it might take two weeks. Suddenly you have two orders of magnitude of uncertainty in your estimate. Maybe you know you can't just use the existing implementation; how much of it can you reuse?

This. One of the biggest sources of uncertainty is not knowing how much of the existing code will work well enough for you.
Isn't it accepted fact right now that removing asbestos creates more cases of cancer then leaving it where it is? What happened at the time was a very un-rational and unproductive response - the removal of all asbestos everywhere, with no regard to costs and side-effects.
I think these are great. Can't really use them in production until it works in latest IE at least. Absolutely love how they are scalable. Oh Internet Explorer... :/
So you oppose the GPL, Apache, and BSD licenses? Or really, any software license? After all, they are conditions for the distribution and derivation of a creative work.

You support private companies taking this freely-given resource, creating products from it, profiting from them, and not release the source as the conditions demand?
The wealth gap in India has gone from disturbing to appalling within a couple of decades. With the exposure that the poor are getting through media their dissent and the feelings of being left out is going to grow and lead to very dark days ahead.
And of course, there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it, because "Canadians voted for a strong, stable conservative majority in tough economic times", or whatever horseshit Harper's minions are spewing these days.
Agreed. I'd take one Dark Knight over a hundred low-budget decent flicks any day.

If you believe low-budget is the way of the future, nothing is stopping you. If you believe big-budget needs to be killed by regulation et al before your superior low-budget future can compete, I wonder if you have things mixed up in your head.
The point they made is that more CO2 is not necessarily a bad thing. It's not my place as a non-specialist to judge how likely global warming really is (so I'm not judging) but I do wonder if it's really a bad thing. I mean, everything I know tells me making the earth a bit warmer and richer in CO2 is a good thing. And there is a distinct lack of credible apocalyptic scenarios... most I've seen say basically "there will be losers", i.e. there will be countries where the climate change will make things hotter and more arid. But for me, in central/eastern europe, warmer winters would be great...
I think Paul Carr is trying to make the point that the anger in the Curebit case is hypocritical since we (the big 'we') defend similar behavior when done to Hollywood or the music behavior.
Odd, I thought it would have created a larger ripple after reading. See here: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://justinsomnia.org
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For case 2, a good index in a normal RDBMS also gives the same benefit. If your query only touched the columns in the index, the query would be blasting fast. The full rows are not used at all. One trick to improve query performance is to create composite index that contains all the columns needed in the query, which is like a mini-table with only the columns in the query.
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Sorry curebit. you are on the HN homepage so I CSRF hunt: http://evanlong.github.com/security/web/csrf/curebit.html

You pass in authenticity tokens but don't even bother to check them on the backend.
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donkey.net is a demo meant to show off VB features when VS 2003 (or 2005) was released. If I remember, primarily used to show off Managed DirectX. Not a valid comparison.
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How about a more accurate title?

"Company president has police kill union boss, workers go on rampage and kill president".
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I'd be happy to help. But currently i'm building a product which is to be launched by Q2 of this year.

Do drop me a mail at ameen.in at google's electronic mail service, I'll get in touch with you if & when I'm free.
Yes but each additional index adds to the storage requirement of the data. With column oriented designs each column is often indexed with bitmap indexes which are very small (often the index + raw data is smaller than the raw data stored in an array thanks to compression). Index intersection is also much faster with bitmap indexes rather then b-trees.
So "women" is a collective noun for a group of humans all of whom are female, and "men" is a collective noun for a group of humans who are some mixture of males and females. There's no collective noun for a group of humans all of whom are male? Doesn't that strike you as a bit asymmetric?

I understand that "men" is sometimes used in the way you describe, but I believe that people who do so consider male the default gender of humans.
I did some simple tests, and frankly the generated code is ugly, certainly by comparison to vanilla CS. Gone is the "oh I see how it did that, it's just a Javascript version of my Coffee!" It's now more like what C++ used to look like when compiled to C (remember cfront? probably not. Be glad you don't).

As someone else said, if you avoid await/defer entirely, it seems to back off to exactly what Coffeescript does, so there is a nice progression path.

code:
https://github.com/danx0r/testiced#readme
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Wow, OK, sorry. I had no idea. Thanks for educating me.
Well, the alternative is homelessness and early death.
Not to nitpick, but the article has several other grammar mistakes:

> Curfew and other civil orders were imposed in Yanam because of the uprising led to the murder of the Regency president.

> Eight Regency Ceramics workers were injured in police firing that followed [...]

And so on. I think that they might have forgotten to send this to the editor (not being sarcastic).
I agree with your first four points, but how did you arrive at your fifth point? QR Code applications I've used scan in about 1-2 seconds (the time it takes to auto-focus), which I think is probably faster than typing a URL.
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I used to work at a TV station. Do you have a question about something, or are you looking to get press? (In which I would be useless.)
Hi mitchie_luna, The video explaining it on the Kickstarter site shows that you select a window of time in which you'd like to be woken. e.g. anytime between 6AM-6:30AM, then if it detects movement anytime in that window, the alarm will sound. Then although not explicitly stated in the video I'd assume it would go off at the end of the window even if you haven't moved.
An eye for an eye isn't quite as attention grabbing as class warfare.
I'm the CEO of the fastest growing tech company in my geographical region ( off the beaten path ) and I get calls by other CEOs asking for stuff like this very very often. In our case it's because those other CEOs don't want to compete on perk and benefits with us which makes it even more sad.

This happens everywhere and at all levels.
You're setting up a false argument here -- they don't do anything to restrict indie filmmakers from distributing their content.
Or maybe they used some automatic translation tool and it was posted automatically when the foreign language version was posted?
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You could have ++ to do concats like in haskell
This is a fantastic idea. I regularly get contacted by a recruiter from Google. Citing it as a reason you wouldn't feel comfortable working there is definitely a way to impact their thinking the next time they have to make a decision that negatively impacts the people working for them. Developers have a lot of power as sought after employees.
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It's phishing. Sure, you're going to check the url. But most people won't. And simply being on the bank is going to be validation enough for most.
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Ah yeah, you're right about that, thought he'd come out with it as an alias.
I'd like to give a big recommendation for this program. I've been watching LeanDesigns from the beginning, and I haven't used it much, not being a serious designer. But when I do need to build a site, I turn to LeanDesigns to make my life much easier.

I don't do everything in it, and the code that comes out isn't quite production ready, but it's damn close.
'cept if people are trained to use them. It's harder to read a url on a mobile device. Plus i can change the url and put up a new sticker. Or just use a bit.ly redirect. And then browsers would have to have a specific link warning instead of just having domain granularity.
BSD, Apache and many other licenses allow exactly this: derived works may be released under proprietary license.
"To fail to distinguish; mix up: confound fiction and fact."

"be careful not to conflate gossip with real news"

first web hits:
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I think the poster is fine.
'cept I don't see any bit.ly links on Bank of America's website but I do see them using QR codes.
Ah thanks. Rereading that, I can see what you mean. I mostly said that to caveat that there are many ways to do entrepreneurship badly, and most of the successful paths involve some amount of shooting from the hip.
They also tend to have more effective compression. C-store (vertica) is also interesting because it takes advantage of compressed data inside the query engine to make queries faster, rather than taking the more traditional step of uncompressing the information and then processing it.

One of the main disadvantages (particularly on more naive implementations) is that incremental inserts can be slow, due to the number of disk seeks required to insert a row.

I do recommend the c-store paper, it's very well written: http://people.csail.mit.edu/tdanford/6830papers/stonebraker-...
Yes, looking for press. I run a site: http://cardnap.com/ which would appeal perfectly to a lot of magazines, etc.
I've been waiting for a tool like this ever since I got into Web Design. I just couldn't understand why it didn't exist already - it's such a clearly valuable thing to have.

A lot of designers right now (like ronaldj in another comment) think that it's not practical or unnecessary. They think that the design will come out too rigid or it's too subjective.

But the thing is, as someone who just does a few pages once in a while, I don't care about this - I just want to be able to throw up a button on a page, choose it's place/size/color, and then be able to just say "add rounded corners" with a checkbox, instead of having to research on the web the various ways to do that, and finding out why certain solutions will work, but not in IE6, and why JS solutions will work and have their own problems, etc.

Such a tool will open up a whole new set of people into web design, which is a huge net plus.

By the way, matt1 from HN has built a tool that's working on doing this: www.leandesigns.com. It's not perfect yet, but it's already pretty great and saves me lots of time. Check it out.
It is frustrating :-(. The earlier (and inferior) byte aligned bitmap compression is patent free, as I recall.
Well, given that I oppose copyright, I support the GPL -- exactly because it uses copyright restrictions to neutralize copyright restrictions.

In other words, the only restrictions placed by the GPL are those that restrict use of copyright -- and I definitely support those.

Apache and BSD licenses are basically only anti-plagiarizing, afaik.

How would companies profit from a work that everyone can freely copy, in a way that does not add value to society and indeed to the original author?
"Has police kill union boss"? I don't see that anywhere in the article, some people think it's the right of unions not only to strike but also to use force (to block people entering workplaces). If they are legally not allowed to do that (court order) and the police have to disperse them violently then the police are just doing their job. And even if the police overstepped the mark and used too much force I don't think murder of the owner is a valid solution.
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Not trying to astroturf. I don't own an iPhone, nor do I plan to buy one. Also $89 for the base model plus $20 for international shipping, is a bit too much for an alarm. I have heard of similar alarms and assumed that they're trying to solve the same problem that I face.
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These are really cool! Can someone explain to me how the icons are done in CSS only?
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Seems too complicated. Personally, my bet is on an editor who is pulling in some weekend hours and has had a few drinks. Gotta have a few rubber-stamped articles to justify the double-pay for the last few hours of "work" ;)
What would it take to make Veebot not look like a horrifying machine to anyone with "needle phobia"? Maybe if it automatically dispensed candy when it was finished?
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My gut (and friends back home) say thats exactly what happened.
But Javascript that has been hand-coded to offer uniqueness in identity and function, is largely considered fair game. Front-end specialists use view-source as a learning technique.

I think many of these arguments lean in the direction of the interests of the person making the statement. For example, I have been impacted by file-sharing sites so I feel nothing but satisfaction when they're taken down. I'd imagine the forums where movie creatives spend their time are generally filled with high-conviction arguments about 'downloading=stealing'. The startup industry hit the roof when a few colour combinations and png's are taken, but feels nothing for old-media industries whose bedrock is being eroded.

There's a lot of 'grey' in there, no obvious answers. Personally I don't torrent, but I have friends that do. I'll view-source but make it hard to steal my own source. Unique visual identity? Same as anything else - better have a lawyer advise you before you upload it for the world to see, and enough firepower to protect it.
The author created a font with each icon as a glyph (letter) in that font. Modern web browsers can load a font file referenced by URL in the stylesheet, which is what he's done. It won't work in older browsers.

https://github.com/samcollins/css-social-buttons/blob/master...
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What are your thoughts about this? Do you think it would be doable?

Would you want to join and help out on such a project?
Don't. School is really important. YC can wait. Messing up the present for an uncertain future is not really the way to do things.

And such poorly thought-out decision taking skills might eventually impact how (potential)investors would think of you.
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They're faster - often by factors - than row based database if your workload is mainly based on aggregates. That's why they're so effective for datawarehousing.

On the other hand if your workload is update/delete heavy then they can be much slower than row-based databases.

Just imagine that you're updating a dozen rows at a single record. In a row database that's one search, in a column database it's 12 searches.

They're complimentary to each other - that's why you often see say banks using row-based databases for the day-to-day workload (lots of updates) and column databases for analytics (lots of data being aggregated).
I agree. Even if they were appropriately fractals, he only draws a truncated version of them (he obviously cannot draw infinitely small)
Build a holodeck.

Yeah. Okay.
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A counterpoint to what, exactly?

Your comment seems to have nothing at all to do with the link.
Not so. In fact the opposite is true; as scientists reach consensus about facts, it enables science to progress. Just because facts exist does not mean the process of scientific discovery ceases.
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I love this talk. For whatever reason, language history is immensely interesting to me. I love the haskell class photo from the 90's, I love him talking about envying features of other languages, I love hearing about research papers helping bring the language to the next level. I don't know haskell whatsoever, but now I respect it and find it fascinating.

I would love to see similar talks about other languages.
Yes! Several of these ideas I do hope the start-up community can grab a hold of and make into successful businesses. Like Elon Musk, I hope to eventually change the world, and several of these ideas will do just that. That's for compiling them.
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If the paces are linearly independent over the rational numbers (which is true for "almost all" n-tuples of real numbers), isn't this problem easy? In the theory of almost periodic functions, there's a theorem about the fact that you can treat periodic functions with linearly independent frequencies as statistically independent for the purposes of calculating long-time-average probabilities.

I must be missing something.