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> British small garage sports cars (Ariel Atom; Bristol; etc etc)

British small garage sports cars are uniquely European? You've completely misunderstood my point.
Obviously its their decision but its a good discussion point all the same :-)

I understand that it's out of their hands once they sell it but if somebody made a good offer to buy the piece of tech then I (emphasis on the "I") would accept. The actions of the buyer doesn't dent their reputation IMHO as its no longer their product.
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A built-in adblocker, alone doesn't ensure the top spot among browsers. If that is the case then Chrome should not have reached this place in browser market. Yeah Chrome too have an adblocker. But Chrome started to gain market share, before even getting an adblocker!
I think this article is extremely wrong.

First of all, I don't agree with the numbers of IE being used by 40% of users
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Secondly, Microsoft has its own ad center and obviously is not interested in ads being blocked.

Finally, it's impossible to avoid blocking of ads on ANY browser because it's done on client side. Even without an ad-blocking extension you can always look up the code and hide the div containing the ad, and automate it through the javascript console.

On the side I wonder what 800 Mrd means. I he means it's 800 Millions. The site is from Germany (.de), so if it were 800.000.000.000 in USA it would be 800 billion and in Europe 800.000 Million or 800 Milliard, but Facebook has 800 Million users, not 800 Billion/Milliard, because total population on the planet is 7 Billion/Milliard.
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I would think a cell phone camera would have served just as well, something like a used Nokia 5800 would be good as it has a reasonable camera.

The weight would be less and you could do away with the separate cell-phone for GPS. One would need to code a little to make the camera auto-shoot, but while at it you could record all sorts of interesting accelerometer and GPS data. Would be a nice school science project.
how about completely ignoring Hollywood and instead, focus on creating a better production/marketing/distribution chain for film makers?
Nitpick: Java does have pointers in the sense of indirect references, so it makes perfect sense that a NullPointerException can exist, even if having nullable references in general is a bad idea.
Lovely demo video. Who made that for you?
I don’t think the scientific community really bought it in the first place. The original experiment wasn’t especially rigorous; e.g. see Rosie Redfield’s review http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2010/12/arsenic-associa...

And then the authors declined to respond in detail to any of the specific criticisms that had been made by other scientists, which is very rarely a good sign.
Funny I had no DRM problems with the pirated version. Hmmm what does that say...
The original post, and my comment, mention nothing about "basic stuff" on the whiteboard.
Are there anti-spam filters for landlines?
The syntax doesn't bug me too much. Most of it is documented fairly well. The craziest thing about JavaScript is a lack of any good online reference for their classes and methods. JavaScript documentation usually just resorts to a key example or a brief description without covering all the details.
Some exams at my university do allow you to bring all the notes and books you wish (no internet though).
Although that sounds like a great deal, I don't really like those exams.

Normally if professors let you bring all your notes, they increase the complexity of the tasks and maybe even cut the time. So unless you wrote yourself a good summary or index to your notes, you will spent too much time looking through your stuff and won't be able to complete the test.

If you however wrote a good summary, chances are that you wont actually need it, since thats pretty much the best way to learn. But still the exam is harder than it would have been without books, so you are off worse.
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So the feds swoop in, run off with multiple terabytes of data on the pretense that some percentage of it might be pirated, and there isn't fuck all a mere mortal can do about it.

And people wonder why US law enforcement is so reviled?
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Back yards are great: they hold pools, gardens, playgrounds, BBQs, etc.

But front yards are nothing but unused space that increase sprawl.
Would this include other areas of water purification such as softening and desalanization?
He has already changed India - http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/01/12/bill-ga...
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Very good point. Not very many people want to be our friends though ;)
More seriously, this is indeed the strategy we're using right now. It will take a long time, but this is what works indeed.
Agreed; a sensationalist title adds nothing to an otherwise accurate article!
Oh FFS.

>Outcome A': Google avoids China altogether, keeping the pressure on Chinese authorities, which may, on the long term

You did type this, yes?
A simple upvote isnt enough. Awesome idea!

Edit: please give us a linux client.
Very true. But it still bothers me that a burrito / pork chops rating app gets so much success based on its good looks.
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I rescind my statement about there being no product from the US that has value and is unique, which would in turn spawn the need for non-software engineers. Peavey Amps is such a product. I don't accept the "we are too large excuse"...China is large and has unique products, but like I said the US does have unique products. I could have used better examples...

But just to answer some side notes that were mentioned:
First I am not talking about small two or three men teams of engineers, my post referred to engineering companies who can support a workforce as a result of consumer demand.

>Yes, yes you still do
Damn you MTBers :) This makes sense, we invented mountain biking so yes.

I was focused more on companies who design, produce and research bikes here in the USA because this produces jobs.
When I mentioned Schwinn, remember Schwinn employed 1000-2000 people. I consider Trek and Cannondale to be in the same level as Schwinn. Trek actually recruits mechanical engineers. Peavy Amps at one time recruited engineers, but the main question is "Does Catalinbread recruit engineers, et. al?"

A lot of those companies are small offices with production coming from Taiwan or China so the impact on Engineers here in the US is minimal.

> Germany is large too with different dialects
Slightly different? Do you consider a Bavarian accent similar to a Schwebish accent? Let's not get lost...
Anyway, does this smallness account for the fact that Germany has unique cultural products like certain varieties of rye bread, cheese, balsamic vinegar, or watches.
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The screencast parts are home-made, Screenflow FTW.

The first 30" were made by a freelance on Elance.
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Because in this case, they're one in the same?
How can I make graphene? How's it made? What do I need?
Well if so they missed the point. With Illico you don't need to sign-up, and you don't need your friends to have the app installed. I agree it's less sexy than burrito rating apps though ;)
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From the article, they are talking about filtering evaporated water through the membrane. It sounds like you will be waiting a long, long time for that drink of water filtered via its gaseous phase through this material.

Regarding bacterial contamination concerns that the posters below discussed, they are likely remedied if the filtration occurs in the gaseous phase of water, though some bacteria can climb substrate walls against gravity so it would be an interesting engineering design challenge.
Eh?

There are these types of small sports car makers across europe: Gillet; Spyker; comarth; sergio bartola; etc. Move up to bigger brands and you have ferrari, lamborghini, Koenigsegg etc.

This wide range of car makers, from all across Europe, produce cars of a similar style distinct from Asian or US makers.
I wish Silicon Valley knew who they were talking about before coming up with this "kill hollywood" nonsense. As if Hollywood is 7 guys with rich parents sitting around waiting to be bought.

Hollywood BOUGHT congress, I doubt Apple or MS can buy Hollywood. I really need to write a piece on this.
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Big bisou too ;)
Please give us a cli linux client, so I can run it on my NAS
Au contraire! The famous line has been generously extended to : "Don't be evil to Apple" ; "Don't be evil to Intel" ; "Don't be evil to Intuit"

It's a question of perspective.
Planned for Q2 - more to be truly cross-platform than by popular demand, to be frank :)
ACTA as a treaty has been ratified, but the
legislative part of ACTA has not been ratified

Could you please explain the difference?
Apparently you can make it with a pencil and some sticky tape: http://youtu.be/LwmxSjydPEE

edit: here they are in the lab at Manchester using a similar technique: http://youtu.be/ehvksWx3AJQ
Along with ChromeOS, NaCl, Chromebooks and a web app store, Google's plans to kill the conventional Operating System is coming along nicely.
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You somehow expect a world without any secrets of any kind to function?
This makes no sense whatsoever. Sorry.

What upside is there for Apple in owning the expensive, unwieldy, production-side apparatus of Hollywood? Why should Apple be devoting resources, human and economic, to developing content when its hardware and software businesses are so much more profitable?

All this talk in recent weeks about "destroying Hollywood," and now, "buying Hollywood," focuses too much on Hollywood as it currently exists. If we're so confident that Hollywood-of-today is a ripe for disruption, then let's focus on disrupting it. The way to do that isn't to fight Hollywood on its own terms. It's to make the creation, distribution, and marketing of non-Hollywood films and shows easier for those outside of Hollywood to do. You don't kill Hollywood with a management change. You kill Hollywood by building -- or, really, supporting the growth of -- an alternative to Hollywood.

Apple already has the means to do this. Its software makes filmmaking and editing cheap, easy, clean, and powerful. And, at least in theory, there's nothing stopping Apple from placing independent films right alongside mainstream Hollywood films on the iTunes movie page. Or serving them up through Genius-powered collaborative filtering algorithms. Etc.

Apple already owns the future of Hollywood in a very meaningful way. To suggest that Apple needs to "buy" anymore of Hollywood is to miss the forest for the trees.
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Mozilla's MDN is great: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference
You should put that on your next pitch deck: "VCs-- If you invest in me, you can expect to lose money! That's your business model, right? Take it from me, I'm practically making a career out of jumping off one sinking ship to another! Yeeeeee haw!"
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I think facebook did a great job with their Messenger app. Most people are on facebook already (so the no sign up sales pitch isn't very convincing), it's available on almost every smartphone (and not just a particular brand like Blackberry Messenger), most tablets and with every computer connected to the internet. Probably even on some TVs (?). It's a cheap substitute for text-messages. The app is really simple and looks good.

Competing against them is a waste of time.
Pointer are incredibly more useful than type coercion. In my experience, it is only really useful for beginners who then don't have to know that "1" and 1 are different things. JavaScript has a basically useless == operator because of this.
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Wait, you deplore walled gardens in one sentence, then call for the death of physical media in the next sentence?

You should be careful what you wish for. The first sale doctrine may be your last and best defense against that walled garden. You're legally allowed to trade DVDs; you're even legally allowed to sell them on the used market; try that with your digital media.

Many of Apple's most annoying policies re: movies and TV are dictated by the Hollywood corporations with whom one must deal if one wants to sell these things. You will probably find that the same forces apply to Netflix, and exactly how is Hulu not a walled garden?
Well i'v never understood the problems with JavaScript but maybe it's because i haven't done things how other languages do it. But js is very "open" and bound free. Especially with functions and objects. They make sense to someone who is new to OOP. maybe its not follow how things are usually done in other languages but that does not mean its necessarily a bad thing. If you think something doesn't make sense that does not mean its wrong. i am learning c and i have to say typed variables must be faster but they are difficult to gasp at first. In fact its a nightmare to make variables of a certain type, it limits my thought process when i have to think what the variable's type is after every line of code. Strings look like a huge deal. The fact that i have to predetermine the length of a string is laughable. Its my string and it can be as long as i want it to be anywhere in my code. (yes i now sound immature but this is my experience until now, call it a rant if you may) Alot of things need to be known before we can write a meaningful program. Thats not the case with js or even with php to some extent.
Or forget the cinemas and just go for watching online. Lots of money there.
Seriously? Maybe this is a European thing, but conservatives pull "TEH CHILDREN" just as much as anyone else.
Graphene filters combined with SODIS methods would be the ticket.

http://www.sodis.ch
You should certainly pay more attention to your repeat customers than to the internet people stating that removal and delivery are worthless.
Great write up. I experienced a similar adventure in learning PHP over the past couple months and I completely agree that the first few weeks are by far the hardest.

Late last summer a friend and I came up with a great idea but we lacked the programming skills to create it ourselves. I knew a bit of HTML, a touch of c++ , and PLC ladder logic programming(huge help, right?). It wasn't until around October that I realized we were getting nowhere. I decided enough was enough and I was going to learn how to program. I spent an entire weekend reading and trying out zend's PHP 101 for beginners. Three months later and I had created a user authentication system with messaging, friends lists, administrative rights, and all sorts of other goodies. I was working a full time job so I did this with my spare time.

Your site looks great by the way. Keep up the good work.
lol serious hustle! Love this execution!!
People look up to Jobs because he managed to achieve the ambitions of many here without giving up his principals. I personally have no burning ambition to cure malaria, does that make me a bad person also?
"finds that graphene capillaries either shrink in low humidity or get clogged with water molecules"

How useful will the filter be if it gets clogged? Reverse Osmosis needs high pressure and produces much less water than it takes in, then it needs remineralization. Same situation?

Maybe it will be better for filtering steam or air.
I still don't really understand the benefit of this over the native SMS app. On iPhones (and I imagine, other smartphones) reply all is available. And you can send pictures in the conversation. I'm pretty sure you can send map locations too, but I've never done it.

If there is no functional benefit to the app, it doesn't look nearly as nice, and my friends aren't hassling me to download it, why would I?
But getting water into the gaseous state is quite easy, by adding heat, right? I realize that takes (quite a lot of) energy, but if all of the water that is heated past vaporization becomes 100% cleaned with no other energy input and no moving parts, that sounds like a rather nifty machine.

I'm sure there are engineering constraints that I'm not aware of, like the filtering clogging up and so on, of course. Still, it sounds almost magical with such a perfect filter.
This is one of those ideas that you see and go 'wasn't this done already?' But in fact it wasn't!

Love the idea and the intro. Instant User!

Tons of questions about the syncing features with different services etc.
Guess the title was right, just that it wasn't a Miserable "Product Launch", but much more a "Miserable Product" Launch... I'm so sorry, but this is a typical case of development for its own sake - you don't need extensive product and market research, some simple hallway testing (i.e. Asking a non-geek: "Hey, do you get what we're trying to do? Do you think you could need it?") would have been enough to establish that this idea doesn't have AND traction and doesn't solve any major problems in a convincing way. Sorry for your investment, but this seems like your own fault, guys. But as they say: Expierience comes from failure, so insert coin and try again!
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I honestly can't think of anything worse for consumers.

By purchasing the content producers they would own the entire supply chain (from production to delivery), purchasing (nearly) every content producer would make them a monopoly both horizontally (owning every player in a single stage of the supply chain) and vertically (having interests at each stage of the supply chain).

I doubt (I'd hope at least) the US government would ever allow this to happen due to anti-competition laws. Honestly I'd be surprised if they weren't already investigating Apple over their current music/movie (and future book) distribution businesses.

I'm pretty disappointed that Erick (the author) could think this would ever be good for consumers.

The big problem with both the music and movie industry, from a consumer perspective, is that they operate a lot like a cartel. They should be competing with each other, not their customers.
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What they describe is almost exactly GroupMe, circa 2010. Group chat app, uses SMS so it works on non-smart phones, no signup required--just text /add [number] to add someone to the group, and they're auto-joined.

Not to say it'll work for them, or that things haven't changed since 2010, (group chat market saturation, more smartphones) but it was a pretty good idea at one point.
I don't know what Americans throw in landfill but in England there's plenty of furniture or working electrical items that end up in landfill (or the modern equivalent).
Is this the one who replaced Arrington as chief-editor of Techcrunch? Duh!
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Not trying to defend the craziness, but, when you are trying to do []+{} and "foo"-1, you can kinda expect unexpected results if you know that JS does type coercion.
Is it just me, or is there an incredible disconnect over "intellectual property"? Copyright interests like the RIAA and MPAA pressure governments to perform these raids which typically involve a court order to seize physical property (servers, etc) without any cognizance of the "property" they contain.

They seem to want it both ways.
thank you! how many hours total do you think you spent during the 3 months?
LEGO should have a contest with a million dollar prize for the first person to put a lego brick on the moon.

(but the problem would be proving it)
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How hard would it be to trap this in our orbit for future mining? Or bring it in for a soft landing?

Any idea how much it weighs? Would there be enough material to make it worthwhile?
Ask HN: Recommended Mac software for creating a user guide? 
Can you recommend software to use for creating a user guide?

I want to create a user guide for my product. I would like output both in HTML format and in PDF format.

I'm using a Mac, so I'm looking for Mac software.
I forgot about Mr. Bunny. He might even take first for his ActiveX book. Hilarious book.
Remarkably, Hollywood bought Congress while being a remarkably small part of the economy, both in terms of revenue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue) and jobs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_employees). These are global lists, but you'll notice that not even Disney makes either one. As an economic matter, why should Congress be more responsive to Disney, Time Warner, and Viacom than to, say, Kroger, which has more employees and revenue than the others combined? The MPAA is visible far more than it is important.

As far as being for sale, publicly owned companies are always for sale.
You've got this a little backwards. Being in NP means a correct solution can be checked by a deterministic TM in polynomial time. A problem is NP-hard if any problem in NP is polynomial time Turing reducible to it. NP-complete problems are those that are NP-hard and in NP (an NP-hard problem need not be NP-complete).
My observation of this matter: working ineffectively leads to burnout and (if it's let to go too far) depression. That occurs whether it's 20 hours per week or 70. I don't think "long hours" are dangerous if the hours are effective, engaged hours that produce meaningful results. It's actually possible to work 45-60 hours per week effectively and sustainably, but only (a) from a position of complete autonomy over what one does and how and when one does it, (b) with a mix of labor (some social, some hard-core cognitive like coding), (c) with strict attention to diet and exercise, (d) with enough reward (and I'm talking about achievement and recognition far more than remuneration) coming from that work, and (e) with the resources to outsource all housework and most errands, because at 60 hpw you don't even want to fucking think about washing dishes.

That said, the longer the hours are, the higher the probability that one is no longer working effectively. A 13-hour coding day can be fun, but it's rare that a person can string 7 of those together in a row. And a 13-hour day spent mostly in tense meatings ("typo" intentional) will kill you.

This can be reinforced by the fact that the first stage of ineffectiveness is mid-level (non-paralytic) anxiety, not panic attacks (a harsh warning sign that usually slows people down) or major depression (outright showstopper).

Actually, I think the reason why there are a lot of micromanagers in the world is that they tend to be people who linger in that twilight stage of declining effectiveness, and that it's possible (in a managerial role) for this state to be stable. Managers at level-1 burnout (non-paralytic anxiety) get the "I'm the only one who can do this shit competently" complex and become micromanagers. In a subordinate, this state quickly (~3 months at most) progresses to level 2 (paralytic anxiety, panic attacks) or even 3 (crippling mental illness, "nervous breakdown")... either of which is likely to end that job one way or another, but a lot of people enjoy power and that means that a person in authority can stay at a level-1 low-burn for a long time.
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