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Good to hear. The TC coverage is a great way to kick things off, but in the long-run, I think investing time in developing a presence in that community is what can really bring you a significant number of signups.
I agree. I just use vim because its available in any terminal and easier than emacs. But you can't pretend it isn't relatively primitive.
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If you're really interested in buying one, there are a few kickstarter projects trying to break the sub $1000 market via RepRap designs. Here's one: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printrbot/printrbot-your...
You should point this out to http://wealthmagazine.com. They have a service they sell, where they train you on how individuals can time the market. You take a course they offer then buy into their online tool and start timing the market like the big boys. The course is all about how to effectively use their tools.

I went to a seminar that had some big names, Terry Bradshaw, Colin Powell, Gulliani, Bill Cosby. It was very entertaining and basically free. In between the speakers they sold you really hard on various things. Wealth Magazine had what I feel was the most aggressive sell.

They did the standard look at this 69 year old women who has consistently beat the market. If she can do it so can you. Well if I put 20 million monkeys in a room there will be a few who consistently beat the market.

This is the basic pitch

Their tools will show you where the big boys are moving their money. Because they are constrained by certain covenants they cannot move their money fast enough, but you can. When you see the money start to move out of one asset into another jump on it. The tool will also tell you if a stock is under valued (I guess no one else has this data so it stays undervalued?)

They made a killing that day. As I am sure they do in all of these events.
It isn't clear if you asking a technical question or a social question. For the latter the usual problems are visibility and acknowledgement. Visibility means the client doesn't really know what is going on. Sure you can email a Word doc whenever it changes, but that is unsatisfying. If the client can go to a URL and see the live state of things, especially a prioritized list of outstanding work then they will have a far clearer picture of the current state, how it changes over time and the impact of their changes.

Acknowledgement is how you deal with new requests. The client is being creative (in a good way) and have yet another idea of how to improve things. Saying "no" to them (it wasn't in the original requirements) is not something they want to hear. It is a good idea to always add new requests to the list as this acknowledges the client and makes them feel better. I always have a milestone/version/release called "Blue Sky" which is where most of these go. But if the client wants it elsewhere then they have to look at the list of outstanding requests and work out which ones get demoted.

Be careful with the granularity of items in the list. Having one item be "Add LDAP" and another "Change title colour" when the former takes 4 weeks and the latter one hour may be apparent to you, but not to them. You can either break big ones down into pieces that are at most a few days, or change the title eg "Add LDAP (4 weeks)".

Once you have visibility and acknowledgements it will become a lot clearer to both parties on the impact of change and what can be done about it (change priorities, spend more/less, reduce scope of items etc). And sometimes those Blue Sky items turn into gems.
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a ton had perfect scores

People involved in college admissions (as you said you are in another comment) love to say things like this. If I based my understanding of the world solely on statements by college admission officers at, say, Duke, I would guess that thousands upon thousands of high school students each year get literally perfect scores (cumulative score of 2400 across three sections of the test) each year. In fact, only a few hundred do, not even enough to fill the entering class at Harvard each year.

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/SAT-Percen...

Literally "perfect" scores are still quite rare. Caltech is just about the only college small enough to enroll only perfect scorers on the SAT (but not all perfect scorers apply to Caltech). As a consequence of this, all United States colleges without exception, by the pigeonhole principle, admit students with less-than-perfect SAT scores.

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...

http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.j...

Your point is well taken that college admission offices look for student characteristics other than test scores. They always have, and they always will. But if a college is found to practice racial discrimination, it is violating the law, period. If a college claims, in response to a Department of Education inquiry, that it is looking for some other student characteristic that just happens to disfavor students from [insert race or ethnicity category here], it had better be able to identify that characteristic with specificity and not simply ASSUME that students of one category or another have more "sports, focus, passion, alumni connections, etc." than other students.
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The number of people with good academic records and top SAT scores outnumber the total seats available at top schools. They also take into account extra-circulars, leadership experience, and other activities. This prevents people from just studying for tests and thinking they have an automatic admission. Personally, I'm glad they do or I imagine it would be a very dull environment if there was nothing but people with their head in the books all the time.
Then you have to define "continually." It's probably better to say it's unreasonable when it eventually fails, but you can only make that determination after the fact. The truth is that any managerial behavior, when applied continually, will become an anti-pattern. So choosing particular behaviors, organizing and labeling them is just an autistic exercise.
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The hardest thing is logistics: delivering product orders on time as a small brand which outsources manufacturing is really hard. Big retailers, like Nordstrom or Macy's will give you a window of a week (maximum) and will not accept your orders if it goes over. Conversely, they also have set packaging and other compliance related requirements which will increase the cost / item. In particular they have these ERP systems that small brands cannot afford. Smaller brands end up outsourcing being plugged into their ERP systems as well which will also increase the cost of the article.
I'm with Jeff Atwood on this one. I've never used a WP7 phone, but it sounds like they just kinda screwed up software part of the back button implementation. That doesn't make it a bad idea, just poorly executed.

From the Android side, I love having a back button. There are a few apps here and there that don't behave quite as they should with it (embarrassingly, the GMail app is one of them), but overall I much prefer having it. Whenever I'm using an iOS device I just feel like I have a very weak amount of control over navigation.
What would one need to do in order to hijack a satellite?
I don't understand what the complaining is about about.

Was this video supposed to be something else, presented in another way, with a different dialog? Was it supposed to make you laugh? Is that who it was made for?
"...How many times can you build a cookie-cutter CRUD app with a web frontend that fetches and displays data from a SQL backend before you feel like all you are doing is cranking a lever?...

...Think of those who have implemented language compilers and runtimes, database engines, search engines, operating system kernels and the like. Unfortunately, such projects come along rarely, and the bar for contribution is extremely high..."

That in a nutshell expresses the dilemma of most software developers.
Yeah, TC is good for us to get a reasonably-sized audience that knows how to handle a young product, in case we run into glitches or interaction friction. As we feel better about its broad applicability, we'll do our best to do exactly what you just described.
[From this post's great grandparent]"The apps should also live in the cloud and just appear on all the user's devices. In fact, the user's application "seesion" should be in the cloud too."

If my session and my app are in the cloud and the cloud is unavailable, my session and app are not available.

And what happens to my apps if I stop subscribing to the cloud for a few months? I still run Quickbooks 2004, ADT 2004, and VW 2008 for my business - will there be that kind of application persistence? [PS: I also use Sketchup 6 because of .dwg support and the ability to import into VW 2008]

In other words, my business processes work, and moving crap to the cloud is an unnecessary expense. I don't need some jackass MBA deciding how I should work based on a survey of iPad users.
I'd add, Does Corporation X allow users to extend the platform, or do they ban anybody who would "interfere with the intended limitations or impairs the proper working" of the platform?

See, for example, http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-bans-browser-plu...
I somewhat expected people would use it as an input to other math software
One good trick that the article could add is getting around NTLM-authenticated HTTP proxies, which are frequently found in schools and workplaces. First, set up cntlm or ntlmaps to run a local HTTP proxy that strips the authentication from the real proxy. This is because almost all software that can handle authenticated proxies (including corkscrew) can only handle basic auth, but not NTLM. Then, configure ssh to use corkscrew:

ProxyCommand /usr/bin/corkscrew localhost 3128 %h %p

Finally, set up the socks proxy (most of these proxies only allow outgoing connections over ports 80 and 443):

ssh -ND2345 -p443 host

I use this technique constantly at school to browse the web unrestricted and with privacy.
Don't throw out vast generalizations without data to support it.
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Seconded, I really don't like handing over my social credentials before I have a clue what it is I am looking at.
I think you'd definitely want a separate space for men, although I don't think you will ever get as much traffic. Sharing the website (even though it is technically done that way right now) would be weird - most women aren't going to be interested in a handgun on the page or a swimsuit model or a muscle car.

I don't think a men-only version would work anyways. Men just don't tend to 'window shop' like women do. Men also don't like sharing as much as women do.
>"You do realize the entire banking system is not built with the idea of ACID/transactional databases in mind?"

Well, I was referring to payments/transactions, not banking. As I specifically said, we are building a third party payments aggregator (TPPA). So, we handle transactions; we're not a bank.

In our case, there are many scenarios where ACID is needed. A couple of the most basic are the need to rollback a transaction (e.g. if it was cancelled, or if it did not succeed) and the need to recover from a failure (specifically, to get back to a consistent state to resume a failed transaction).
I requested one. Should be interesting. What is everyone going to do with theirs?
Writing '⊂' alone would likely be recognized as 'c' or 'C' because the decision is based on the context.

'A ⊂ B' is unkikely going to be recognized as 'A c B' or 'A C B'
For those that are curious, the motherboard in these systems is a ASUSTeK P8H67-M PRO. Seems like it's a gaming board - understandable given it's an i7 platform.
I hear there are extracurriculars involved, like a decade of aspirational music training, leadership in high school sports, and civic engagement. I suppose someone else can weigh in with clues.
I've found that when it comes to GUI tools the Mac is your best friend. Even a good majority of command lime stuff is really a joy to use. I'll never abandon the Mac but I must say that the deeper into my programming journey I get the more I'm reaching for my Linux machine. Last week I caught myself thinking of dumping the Mac altogether! But that's heresy and I quickly banished those thoughts.

The Mac gives you a really great portion of 2 worlds - the ability to operate from the terminal much like Linux but with amazing support for anything requiring you to either use or create GUI apps. The only problem is that once you venture off too far in one direction or the other you're either wishing you were on your Mac or you Linux machine. I don't subscribe to the belief that on OS is superior to another. Mac and Linux each have their very special uses. Instead I subscribe to the belief that 2 OSes are better than the third (unless you're coding for Windows exclusively in which case I wouldn't want to be you).
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I would be happy to try and help you run some names and see if I can find anything. Contact me off my site in profile if you're interested.
The governments are (local) monopolies that supply a product(customers) to businesses on the governemnts terms. So, using your logic businesses can choose on moral or pragmatic grounds not to buy from these monopolies (i.e. set up in another country). Please continue to argue how a single incumbent asserting its market dominance is a good thing while arguing a single incumbent asserting its market dominance is a bad thing.
Right now it seems like all of the marketing for Windows Phone is aimed at developers.
This pre-supposes that a lack of ("stellar") high school extracurriculars translates to a future lack of college extra-curriculars.
Saving money with Regular Gas in your Premium car?...Better do the math.
it's online recognition

we interpret the strokes (1 stroke == 1 sequence of 2D points)

in other words, it doesn't work on images; but we need input from a mouse, stylus, touchscreen, inkling, anoto pen, anything that outputs sequences of x,y coordinates
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I realize that I didn't explain this part fully. Any asset aside from cash is speculative - and is primarily determined by how much a person's willing to buy and sell it for.

So when AAPL is worth 500 billion or whatever in one day, it doesn't actually mean that AAPL can be converted into cash wholesale for $500 billion dollars - it means that for that particular day, the small percentage of trading involving AAPL shares determined that people were willing to pay for XX amount of dollar/share for the stock and multiply that by number of outstanding shares => we get the market's valuation of AAPL at that particular moment of the market's condition of supply and demand. However, in the hypothetical scenario in which Steve Jobs foundation owned 100% of AAPL and decided to have estate-sale, the market dynamics of dumping all shares of a stock onto the market is equivalent of oversupply of the stock to sell and not enough buyers, and therefore driving the stock price down.

So suppose in the "flight to safety" scenario, the equity market is shaky for whatever reason: unrest in middle east, euro crisis etc. The demand for equity is less, therefore what I paid originally for SPY (S&P500 tracking index) may be $100, but the highest someone who wants to buy it from me might be $80. But I sell it anyways because I'm driven by fear that the market's going to deteriorate further. With that money, I have only $80 worth of buying-power.

On the flip-side, as everyone's getting out of the equity market, they rush to the government bonds market as this is the safest investment. The demand for treasury bills suddenly goes up, therefore to buy your bonds; you have to be willing to buy them at a higher price than the next guy. So if I want to buy the same number of bonds previously of value $100, I have to spend now $120. So you see how now the bond market taken at wholesale is valued more.

So in your scenario, flight of safety goes like this:

Person 2: Sells equity of original value of $100 for $80 to person1

Person 1: Then has equity valued at $80 at the time

Person 2: Buys $80 worth of bonds from person 3 and now has Tbond worth $80

Person 3: Sells bonds of original value of $100 for $120; a portion of which goes to person 2
I wish those things had some kind of signed bootloader and smartcard; they'd be awesome for a secure password management device.

When I first saw the Peek, I was wondering what it would take to turn it into the ultimate drug dealer/activist/etc 2-way text device; everything proxied through a secure multi-stage relay (like Tor), anonymous flood-fill messaging (like posting an encrypted message to a usenet group; the key is the address), etc. Something with a hacked baseband to let you change the IMEI periodically would be better, though (or wifi with MAC rolling).
same here. At least show some sample screenshots or something.
He had a lot of influence on the current definition, but no longer does. (I don't think he would dispute this.)
The site looks great. However, I agree with apsurd. If you first let users play around, it shouldn't take long until they're hooked and much more eager to sign up.
And punishing the children for the sins of the "tiger mom" is fine?
It implies Gmail-man is a sentient entity that snoops through your e-mail and makes conclusions about skin conditions while, in fact, it's just a set of rules that shows relevant (and very unobtrusive) banners. I am quite sure Google does not store the keywords in any way that can be connected to you.

Also, don't fall for the illusion your Microsoft Hotmail (or 365) inbox is any more secure from snooping by sentient beings (the ones who should really bother you) than any other mail service.

And, finally, the video compares the free Gmail product with the Office 365 offering that is 20% more expensive than the Google Apps for Business product. If we are comparing free products, we should compare Gmail and its unobtrusive context-sensitive banners to Hotmail and its obnoxious we-don't-know-how-they-are-selected (other than "poorly") banners.
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So I can't use Ctrl-F?
How is a system informed by an input that 'carries information'?

It processes the input to determine what actions to take next.

What details is the system able to 'learn about' from that input/information?

Some facility for conditional execution (not just something like an "if...then...else" control structure -- the ability to compute non-constant functions).

What's happening there is just a physical interaction of the 'inputs' interacting with the system.

So?

How is that information related to the meaning of the information - how does that work? If the brain is just computation, how does the "semantic information" in the brain work?

What is "meaning of the information"? What is "semantic information"?
On my first attempt, I couldn't even make out what I had drawn, but this service inferred my intent anyway. Amazing.
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You are missing the whole part about the "Fat Cache" - "A Fat Cache would retain all of its functionality and the user's most used data"
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I guess when handsets are actually for sale they'll start marketing it - right now everything about Windows Phones is for developers.

To be honest though, I'm not sure normal people will even want a Windows phone. Most people seem to equate Windows with brokenness, and Apple with luxury, so given that assumedly they will cost a simliar amount to an iPhone, I can't see your average person going for them.

Maybe I'm wrong, once Win8 is out and Metro is everywhere, maybe the phones will seem more desirable.
One of my favorite education quotes, supposedly from Larry Summers, comes from when he was asked about why it was that 60% of white students were jewish. Supposedly he responded that while there was no surefire way of getting into Harvard, it certainly helps to have every advantage one can get.
Thanks for the heads up on Jason. I work with a lot of web apis and this looks like a great tool for browsing json responses.
The problem is that the upvote/downvote functionality is overloaded. One usage is symmetrical, but the other is not. If a user downvotes a comment because it violates the HN guidelines, that usage is just as valuable as an upvote to reward an informative or well-written comment.

But if a user downvotes a comment simply because they disagree, the site is robbed of their reasoning, while a user who upvotes a comment because they agree helps the site avoid needless duplication.

People tend to confuse these separate uses, and the symmetrical presentation in the UI reinforces the impression that the function is also symmetrical when it really isn't.
If Facebook embodied "the hacker way" internally, they wouldn't behave in the manner they do toward their users. They wouldn't elevate their "hacker employees" to a privileged position over a "hacker user" when it comes to that user's data and mechanism of experience.

A company wouldn't get to call itself an "open source company" just because all of their employees have access to their source code.
This is really the gist of these suits. If it were the case that by law colleges could only consider SAT score, then there is strong evidence for anti-Asian and anti-white discrimination. But since not all schools are Caltech, nor want to be, these suits are without merit. It is entirely possible that a legitimately race-blind admissions process would produce lots of 2600SAT asian kids not getting into the elite unis.

That said, race-blind admissions policies are not current law nor necessarily even the optimal policy. For example, we can't have a nation with a persistent racial underclass. In as much as college effects class mobility (which is probably small), race-aware policies allow for this.
This is not about arguments. This about ideology. Just read the opening words of ACTA:

"effective enforcement of intellectual property rights is critical to sustaining economic growth across all industries and globally"

That is not a fact. That is not even an argument. That is an ideological statement, and 50% of ACTA is exactly that: an ideological manifesto.

Propaganda is the primary currency here, and always has been when it comes to copyright. The other side has been fighting dirty for a few decades now, conveniently ignoring the facts, and they have been winning.

So now the opposition has started to fight dirty. It may be ethically questionable, but idiocy? So far, for the first time ever, the opposition against the ever more repressive copyright regime actually seems to be gaining some traction.

This is not a high school debate. This is politics. Not being willing to fight dirty simply means you'll get beaten up. Unless you want to keep running until there is nowhere left to run. But that is pretty much the intent behind ACTA: making sure that eventually, there will be nowhere left to run.
While this is true, I don't see why this can used as justification to keep name and ethnicity showing. There will always be ways to guess an applicant's ethnicity but since it (supposedly) has no bearing on admissions, why keep it in the application?
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thanks, I start to agree with you:) Do you think screenshots alone would help or software should be usable without authentication till some period (like when you need to save something?)