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The FCC wants to deny LightSquared the use of their licensed spectrum because neighboring users (GPS receivers) cheaped out on their receivers and can't tolerate Lightspeed's transmissions.

I'm willing to accept that not breaking GPS receivers is a good thing, and that allowing Garmin et.al. to sell cheap receivers by assuming neighboring bands they do not have licenses to are unused is possibly a good thing.

But, having an independent, nationwide, high speed internet choice is definitely a good thing.

The FCC should take a frequency allocated to government use and swap it to Lightspeed so they have bandwidth they can use. The existing users will pitch a fit about the expense of moving, but a new nationwide cellular internet player will likely save billions of dollars for consumers.
> Everyone hates change and would love to go back, until they actually do go back. The status quo is familiar and therefore seems more efficient. It's "muscle memory". The current desktop system is a metaphor that never really played out.

This is largely quite true. I was probably one of the few people among my peers who actually appreciated the new taskbar introduced in Windows 7. Although that's not to say that criticism of Windows 8 isn't important; I think one of the things Microsoft did learn with the Windows 7 betas and release candidates was that feedback from the user base can very occasionally be helpful. In some exceptional cases, monitoring user feedback can short-circuit certain disaster.

The other thing to keep in mind is that change for the sake of change isn't always good--and likewise, it isn't always bad. Paradigm shifts will happen, things will change, and sometimes legacy designs will continue to persist for wont of familiarity. What I'm saying is this: Changing too much too drastically is a bold move. It might pay off; it might also be disaster.

My personal preference is to agree with apg; the developer preview was less than stellar, but my expectations weren't terribly high. I don't really like the paradigm shift Microsoft is trying to force across the Windows brand as it exists for a desktop OS, but it might be great for what it was designed for--tablets and phones.

It should be said that I also didn't care much for Unity even though I gave it an honest try for about two-three weeks. There were some things that it did well--and were equally quite handy--and there were others that felt too jarring and awkward. Metro feels somewhat similar in that regard. However, I'll reserve my full judgement until we're closer to a more finalized product so we can see what Microsoft's vision ultimately boils down to; thusfar, I'm not terribly impressed, but I admit they're making a decent effort. I do look forward to seeing the finished product even if I absolutely hate it. :)
IMO a more likely answer: 32ms / 2 = 16ms, the typical frame time for a monitor running at 60 Hz. Also the post noted disabling QuartzExtreme (GPU accelerated rendering) fixed the issue. I suppose the mouse cursor is drawn with GPU acceleration. Then, to optimise rendering, the window system uses double buffering (a common technique) - however, double-buffering has the well-known side-effect of introducing a one frame delay. So it would take 16ms to see your mouse cursor update, but with double buffering it takes 32ms.

I think Windows uses a special graphics card feature (an "overlay" IIRC) to update the mouse cursor independently of the double buffered window system. I noticed moving windows became ever so slightly more laggy going from XP to Vista - probably because the window system became GPU accelerated.
Was it HTTP code 402, "payment required"?

If so, look out. There may be more ahead.
"Can you please tell me why you think Honeywell is a non-innovator?"

In general, I wouldn't defend that statement (which isn't mine). But I would defend the statement that these are either not "innovations", or certainly are innovations so obvious they are mostly or entirely not worthy of government-granted monopoly: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3558260
Whats the different between example two and this:

//FIXME: This code is a shitty hack to work around $issue. I don't know of a better way, but suggestions welcome.

This contains the same information but uses a swearword. I think that every would agree that clearer comments are better, but does the presence of obscenities inhibit clarity or are they merely offensive and superfluous?
This is really an extension of the advice to make sure you build a product that scratches an itch you have. Extend it to developing frameworks, and you have “suffering-oriented programming”.

Of course, the real problem is that there are certain spaces that wouldn't really be serviced if that's all we did. Education is an excellent example: the people who really feel the pains of education, students, won't really start having the ability to help solve those pains until they're further along in their education, at which point the earlier pains don't necessarily apply as well. In a similar vein, learning to program is a problem that's been on the map for a long time, and, while the situation is constantly improving, we're dealing with the problem of, by the time we've got the skills to really help solve it, we've already learned to program, and have lost some amount of sight of how learning could be improved, because we're no longer in the proverbial trenches.

So while “scratch a personal itch” is awesome advice, and almost certainly helps in product development and framework development, sometimes it isn't enough. Sometimes just following your curiosity or intuition and exploring a space that doesn't produce regular hurt for you can lead to an equally good result. At that point, what you need to make sure you have is external feedback from the people whose itch you're trying to scratch. Maybe the chances of failure are greater in these cases, but the opportunities for success are also probably greater.
I've noticed that I do not often give feedback to services I use but have little investment in. So any answer from me means I'd be at least a little sad to see it go away.
By "signed" I just meant a way to quickly get a lot of valid submissions. More like a petition. Not trying to bot it. There's a CAPTCHA anyway =)
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Yes you're right, lets us switch between https and http without having security errors being thrown up on static resources.
Not sure why you're getting attacked. I think the advantage is a combination of nicer design and better PR ("brought to you by the fathers of the iPod", etc). A very Apple-like approach to product. Which works on many folks, myself included.
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When users downvote a comment, they should be required to give a reason. When someone downvotes me, I wonder why that is: Am I too arrogant? Do they just disagree? Is it because what I posted is obvious? This would also motivate people to think about downvoting more and reduce the problem with interesting comments being downvoted because people disagree with them.
Out of interest: has Microsoft commented at all on whether this new UI will integrate with the Kinect for PC? While my screens are far enough away that a touchscreen would prove arduous, flicking and sliding through screens with gestures might tie well to the Metro experience.
Patents should be about encouraging inventors to reveal their inventions and methods that would otherwise remain secret and granting them the 20 years monopoly for that. It's not a license to choose any idea that is obvious to one skilled in the art after a purely superficial observation of the device in action.
"Now is the moment in history where people need to speak up for the protection of their rights on the internet"

People are. They're just not speaking up for the "rights" you are thinking of.
We revolt against the software majority. Threaten to cut off their sockets.
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Even on desktops, CSS3 transitions are much smoother than Javascript.
That sounds small, but compound it [monthly/quarterly] over a decade.... and I think that this is the fee that they charge on top of your money, but that there are also fees embedded in the funds that cause the returns to slightly underperform the actual index by the amount of the fee (though its been awhile and the laws may have have changed.)

Even if that is the total fee, at the end of the day, you're getting a market return minus that fee. This is not success.

It is not difficult to beat the market, nor to do it over the long term. It just takes a little bit of knowledge and a little bit of discipline.
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Copyright is not a right

I don't think you've thought that through.

Forcing people into pirating

Nobody is forced into pirating.
Remember that it was in 2000 or 2001, several years before youtube and most other sources... Actually there were hardly any downloadable videos except porn :)

In fact there was quite a lot of harmless material too, however I really hoped that they wouldn't ask for a keyword that would bring forbidden pictures, or worse, ask to use the mouse themselves! I think we managed to avoid any incident this time; however a little later the boss discovered what was in there and he wasn't happy.
And if not the government, organized crime would likely demand a cut.
Also, there is a problem with the voting process here (and on other sites, obviously) in general. If everyone upvote what they like, this is almost certain to ensure that the most interesting stuff never makes it to the front page, because I may like something that is truly original and thought-provoking, and also something nice about, say, GitHub (I'm just focusing on GitHub as an example. They're A-OK). The result is that the mainstream stuff gets lots and lots of votes, but what really interests us doesn't. What you don't upvote is just as important as what you do. I've just posted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559105) an interesting lecture by Noga Alon about voting paradoxes.

In addition, I think (though I may be wrong) the HN algorithm makes second chances nearly impossible. If something doesn't make it to the front page within a couple of hours since its posting (or even 30 minutes), it never will.
Would you please not use uppercase for emphasis? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nice! I happened across a site yesterday that really could have used this (http://www.nofrks.com/). Parallax looks great for scrolling landscapes -- a demo of something like that would be pretty cool.

Also, hooking into browser history (back button) would be a nice feature.
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> It was not made clear to me why the protagonist made the choice he made.

He was rejecting the hoity-toity New Englanders and their fancy tea served in fancy porcelain teacups. However yes I'd agree that wasn't sufficient explanation. Maybe there are more details in the book?
I'm going to make the opposite argument. I think the current batch of Start Menu, dock, and panel launchers represent the product of continuous refinement. I honestly question whether the interface can truly be improved (versus made different) for current desktop interfaces. By current desktop interfaces, I mean a monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Right now, there no interface better for accomplishing real work on a computer.

Tablets and future, immersive, physically interactive interfaces (e.g. "virtual reality") will certainly be different, but I don't see why we should completely warp our well-established paradigms of interacting with current technology.

Incidentally, the greatest sin I see is that they seem to be keeping the Start Menu concept, but they're hiding it!
Also, the site appears to requite a minimum current salary of $10K.
Well, the preview of Win8 showed that you can switch between Metro and the classic desktop. When I deploy Win8 to my users, it'll be locked to the desktop mode. Metro will be a netbook/tablet/embed only thing.

Don't take the complete fail that Unity is and apply it to this situation. Shuttleworth has no big corporate customers he needs to cater to. Those that don't like unity can figure out how to install Gnome or LXDE or whatever. Windows on the other hand will have both options ready to go from day one with an ease of a click. MS knows who butters their bread: corporate clients.
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Well, a programmer/statistician/scientist working for "the financial services industry" has only one purpose there: to maximize the amount of money they make, through whatever clever means possible. Who came up with CDOs, for example? High Frequency Trading and their algorithms competing against each other?

In today's world, the financial services industry makes almost all of its money through exploiting the absurdity/loose regulations of our current economic system. Gambling, pretty much. They keep whatever profits they make, and have us pay their losses (bailouts etc). They reap insane profits at the expense of the health of our economies, and they are not the ones to suffer the consequences. It's us little folk.

A "quant" working at Goldman Sachs is just a tool used by the fat cats in charge. Do you think they can work for hedge funds and the like and not have any sense of something being wrong? Going there is a conscious choice. Staying there is another. I bet the unusually big salary helps them rationalize those choices though.
What is "binding" and what makes it late?
Where in his post did he say he hates bootstrap for the reason you offered?

I agree with him on the uniqueness issue. It's a valid point.
Standard street pay is 70k base and usually bonus in the 40k area (all pro-rated) first year out.
I could never imagine taking a course on Entrepreneurship. It's something you learn by doing. At least it is for me. There's also so many good books out there...

Being good at math is like a superpower (at least it seems that way to a creative/language minded guy like me). Math requires schooling more than entrepreneurship.

Go with the math, and while you're getting really good at it, you'll come up with an awesome business idea that will help guys like me learn math faster.

Go with the math.
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> "It turns out there aren't any fancy scanners or high-tech mine-removal gadgets that can compete with old-fashioned sweat, discipline, and patience when it comes to picking mines out of the ground," US diplomat Emily Fleckner said during a December site visit to Kilinochchi, where some of fiercest fighting once took place.

> But it is the overall issue of funding that has people worried most almost two years since the war was officially declared over.

> NMAC estimates it will cost more than US$100 million to demine the last 126 sqkm.

$100m doesn't seem like a crazy huge amount of money.
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I use this almost exclusively but I think it actually shortens the discussions - you see the stories immediately when they are new and with little comments and then you have to make a conscious effort to come back to them.
IIRC these are wait times deliberately engineered by pg/said-advanced-developers for various reasons. I remember reading that there is a cool-off period to discourage hasty comments and fast growing off-topic comment trees. There also appears to be intentional slow load response times for posters with certain negative comment thresholds. I cannot officially confirm any of these.

I agree though, the restrictions are arbitrary and unnecessary.
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Too many crap patents out there.

Variation: a consortium where all participates share their patents in a common pool. If you are in the consortium, you promise not to sue any of the participants.

This is good because startups can join the consortium. It needs at least some good patents inside it to bootstrap. As the patent portfolio of this consortium gets better, larger players have an incentive to join.
Because your audience might not be the same as 37signal's audience, and hence might react differently to different things
> Copyright is not a right, it s a privilege given to promote the creation of new works in exchange for reasonable access to that work

From the U.S. Constitution, on the powers of Congress: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Your post is heavy on snark, but name one other product that has as many human hours invested in using it.
"It is something of a commonplace to say that JavaScript is a Lisp or Scheme in disguise."

Has that really become common??
I didn't notice it either until I really looked for it. Must be my monitor
We always complain about the Internet side of things, forgetting that in most cases these issues are caused by local laws, for whatever political, cultural, etc. reason, are lagging behind the currently accepted human rights (this is hard to define rigorously but I'm sure we would all agree on a common core). Many examples of this can be given: China (of, course), but also many Arab countries, as well as Turkey (who had blocked YouTube at one point and continues to block other sites). And evidently, now India.

It is interesting that the US is an outlier among these countries in that the motivations of censorship here is motivated more by big business profit than politics.

"Indian officials have seen illustrations showing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in compromising positions, as well as pigs running through Islam’s holy city of Mecca. The punishment for such offenses can be several years of jail time and financial penalties."

"Several years of jail time" for an offensive picture? There's something wrong about that.
I've done original research where we tested users perception of lag. We tested 5ms, 10ms, 15ms, and up. We found that most people were able to perceive lag in the 30ms range, and so this post is correct when it says that. However, I was able to recognize lag down to around 15ms. (We did double blind tests and you had to indicate when you saw lag, not all of the events were lagging. It was pretty accurate, but this was a test for some gaming software and so the results weren't published.)

I perceive no lag in the Mac OS X mouse. I am very sensitive to it. I'm able to perceive the flicker in fluorescent bulbs, yet I do not see any lag in the mouse.

I think if he's seeing 32ms, it is some particular combination of hardware and software.

I've tested this again with my trackpad and my cheap logiteck trackball. No perceivable lag.

I play Team Fortress all the time, there is no mouse lag. There is, of course, noticeable network lag.
> Not all computer vision is "low-hanging fruit," especially if you're pushing boundaries.

Computer vision is low hanging in the sense that you already have everything you need to make positive contributions to the study. I think the same is true with ML in general, but it was specific about what type of ML, which hangs higher due to the data availability.

> Similarly, applying ML techniques to "other data that is relevant" is a far cry from using ML to save lives at a hospital due to misdiagnosis.

Are you saying that programmers that are not working directly on saving lives are essentially wasting their time? There are a lot of interesting ML problems that do not save lives, but they are still worth working on.
Demographics are everything. To this old dinosaur, I'd question your maturity and whether I'd want to be a customer in the future -- especially if you have any of my personal data.

Unlike some of the other commenters below, I don't think it's an issue of whether you have a "sense of humor" or not. YMMV.
Why? That plugin was created before jQuery had .live() (which has since been made useless by the better delegate/on).

The only reason you should use this plugin is if you're stuck with jQuery <1.3.
super cool idea, but definitely one that has been considered in by many (especially the node.js community). Kudos for taking a pass at it!

Note that if you assume everything is async, using a synchronous call is no problem. It's going the other way (as illustrated in the post) that is tricky. Maybe we need to make async in general more common/simple?
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I entirely agree with you, I'm not about to say jsperf is able to give an accurate representation of the big picture and show your bottlenecks, however, it does demonstrate that jQuery code is actually much slower. The impact is worse when the most culturally-popular methods in JavaScript: replacing innerHTML inside for-loops, and attaching events directly to many elements.

That being said, I have run into situations where I absolutely do need performance. I've tried to load 10k records into the popular http://www.datatables.net/ plugin (I have a legitimate reason, I swear), and it tends to crash my browser simply because the author uses a lot of these per-element-bindings and innerHTML calls, but I was about to use jqGrid http://www.trirand.com/jqgridwiki/doku.php which managed to write the jQuery code in a way that avoids those bottlenecks and is able to deal with 10k records without crashing. So yes, you can use jQuery and write better performance than other cases out there, but that's not what I'm trying to get at.

I'm saying jQuery encourages a lot of bad things that competent programmers can avoid without using this specific library for everything, and novice programmers can gain a better understanding of the browser through not using "hocus pocus" to make sites.
I sort of tried doing this for the PennApps Hackathon in January: http://unstock.me/

It turned into a silly little linear game. We realized that intelligent investment in the stock market requires setting up advanced models that require math beyond what most people can manage. If you're not working with such a model, you're probably losing money to the people who have one. There are some general concepts to learn about the stock market that don't have to do with math, but they're mostly pretty obvious and hard to make into a fun, game-like format.