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"//static4.scirra.net/css/newmaster.css?v=43"

No idea if that's the issue but it stuck out.
A very interesting article, it makes me sad for america. I find the religious are much more often "that guy" than atheists are, i'm thinking proponents of Sharia Law, the pope, the guy at the train station yelling about the end of the world, the people who commit honour killings, homophobes, the list goes on. In the end what you believe as a religious person has no rational basis so you cannot reasonably expect people share your beliefs. Given that religous people believe something that is essentially insane(having no reasonable, rational or scientific basis) it is fair that you should be called out and challenged on those opinions. Having your beleiefs questioned is part of living in a free and open society and if your beliefs cannot stand up to even the most cursory of challenges then it is perhaps time to re-evaluate those beliefs.

You have the right to believe in crazy ghosts and gods and whatnot but don't expect me to respect you for it or make any concession or accomodation to those beliefs. Fortunately for me i live in a country where atheists make up around 25% of the population and it is on the rise, in a few generations we will be rid of the absurd and horrible scourge on society that is religion.
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Nope. As i wrote above, I've actually had more than 3 when counting small samples/swigs over the years ("here, try some of this"). Had UK lagers and ales, ciders (closest to something I could actually have more of), a couple types of german beers, a couple of 'micro brew' things from breweries local to wherever I was living at the time, etc.

Just... ugh. Can't do it. And honestly, if it was a case of "just try XYZ a few more times"... I'm not sure if I want to get accustomed to something that's $6/ bottle, which would end up adding $12-$20 per meal I go out for. I'd rather be able to leave a large tip if I've enjoyed the meal than pay for expensive bottles of 'the good stuff'.

I most social situations, I'm driving anyway, so it's always easier to bow out and grab a ginger ale or something, if I'm heading to the car in an hour.

When I'm not driving someplace (hotel for a conference, etc), it's tastier to get a fuzzy navel or some other fruity drink with some alcohol in it :)
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Very cool, but notice what kind of room they fly in - they're using cameras to control the quadcopters, they're not autonomous, which means that if you put them outside, they wouldn't work.

Still, pretty damn impressive.
Can you please provide a URL with more information about the quad-core Loongson-3A 13.3" laptop?
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A handy trick I have always used is to get a second IP address on my servers and set up ssh on port 443. From memory I have only had one case where a firewall blocked it.
That's true for email as well.
Even many UI-related items could have sensible URL, e.g. href="#show-widget" (and read location.hash and perform that action when page is loaded).

The href is not only for JS-less browsers, it's also for links opened in new tab or saved in browsing session.
You just have to be cool enough so that people start thinking "how can we organize the event so that X will also show up". Problem solved :-)

Another question: do you really want to meet people who would exclude you from an event just because you don't have a Facebook account? Friends don't exclude friends...
Wow. Never heard that term. I was always just a "picky eater" as a kid.

Spinach and some other veggies - I'm fine with almost everything raw. Can't stand it cooked. Yet people complain about that. WTF? I'm asking you to NOT do any food prep - no energy to cook/heat it up - there's no wasted effort, and it's good for you. I'd still get push back from family over the years as a "picky eater".

My brother got us a juicer, and I'm juicing up loads of carrots, spinach, celery, beans, greens (collard/turnip), etc. Yeah, that definitely doesn't taste awesome, but in some ways, because of the mix, it doesn't taste strongly of anyone type of food - they sort of cancel each other out a bit. It's not a great taste, but doable, and it's healthy.

Coffee - that took a while to be an acquired taste. Why do this but not beer? A) cheaper. B) caffeine kick is more useful to my daily life. I'm not a coffee addict - 2-3 per week is a lot - but generally cheaper to add on to a breakfast meal than a beer is with a dinner. I prefer flavored coffees/mochas/etc, but coffee with enough cream/sugar is workable.
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Wait, so your saying your devs aren't allowed to listen to music through their headphones? Inconceivable.
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So I guess you don't have Gmail's recipient autocompletion, or you do? This is the killer feature of Gmail for me, with its keyboard shorcuts and search.
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It's also illegal to make lots of noise on Sundays.
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My alternative to this was to write an inclusion template tag. This separates logic from presentation more cleanly, and it allows forms where, for example, first name and last name fields take up half of the space of the same row, and the rest of the fields are on full rows.
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This depends on where you're working. If you're looking for efficiency, sure, maybe open plan offices will impact your Business Efficiency Quotient.

If your company enjoys having an open floor plan, then just do it. When in doubt, value happiness over anything else. We have music playing constantly at the office with everyone sitting on long community tables. It's a relaxed, fun atmosphere, and I enjoy doing work there.

When you want to go into The Zone, we have closed off offices that you can do that in (or, alternatively, just stay at home or go to a coffee shop and get your work done there).

Efficiency in workers isn't the end-all game. There are a lot of metrics beyond just "what is the most work we can squeeze out of our employees today".
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I would look at Google's papers regarding TCP tuning mostly. They're very well written with some real-world data.

What kind of applications are you creating?
Nope, the boomers did that too.
very well said.
really great work there.

not a big fan of the license choice, though.
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Or you could get your Facebook data via this way: http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_...
While we're en the teritory of anecdoteism, let me add that as a manager, I am much more inclined to hire someone over 30. Not only do they tend to have more experience and thus be technically better skilled, but they also tend to be better at getting up in the morning, managing their time, communicating with colleagues and just generally act as grown ups. Managing teenagers gets old very fast.
Every time a see a new quadcopter video, I wonder to myself how long before local law enforcement starts using them.

I gratly fear a widely used, easily weaponized, remote controlled airforce that local enforcement officers can easily obtain.
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This is really about the productivity/availability tradeoff, which is not linear but binary. Open-plan offices are optimized for availability.

Closed-door environments aren't great either. They might be good for the individual, but not for the team. Also, in the long-term, people who close their doors not to perform as well: they're more productive on an hour-by-hour basis, but they miss out on a lot of important conversations. Since 95% of the information that's actually important is conveyed in informal conversations rather than meetings, that can become an issue.

What I think would work best is something like a restaurant booth in shape, but with 12-hour chairs (you can't work for a full day in a restaurant booth). The table is a common space for the team, but everyone has a wall at their back. Open-back visibility (and worse yet, rear traffic) is often more of a productivity-killer and anxiety-producer than noise.
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The timing seems strange if you are not following Dave Winer and John Battelle blogs. They both recently talked about Data Lock In and Scoble seems to see it as too little too late. He uses the story to back his position.

My guess is someone pressured him to take a stand and he doesn't want to. Would he have really taken a stand 4 years ago? Probably not, Scoble needs his audience.
Although I can't speak for the OP, and you may be asking for a different reason, but double slashes are an acceptable way to write fully qualified URLs while still being protocol agnostic (that is to say, if you're on a page that was served via HTTPS, the double slash URL implies using the HTTPS protocol). It let's you have fully qualified URLs, without having to worry about the protocol and browser whining about mixed security.
Whilst I agree that open plan offices are probably more distracting than closed off offices, I'm not sure I'd consider the test described by the article as particularly compelling evidence.

The 1998 study sounds far more interesting, as presumably there was a control group, and the end result was statistically significant.
I'm extremely impressed that this just took a few hours. How did they get the right shape? Did they just print a copy of an old (pre-infection) scan of her mandible? Or did a doctor "clean up" the scan of her current, damaged jaw?
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This is not 'more evidence', this is a sample of one person, conducting a pseudo experiment for a television program which is likely to have a very strong confirmation bias both in conducting it and eventual editing (although I didn't watch it, I'm making a massive assumption based on the quality of UK 'factual' programming).
I don't doubt open plan noise is a distraction, I used to have to regularly take myself off to a quiet room when I was in an open plan space. I just object to the headline of the non-article.
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Video and more links here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430320
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Interesting. Many natural sounds are very similar to white noise (e.g. leaves, waterfalls, etc.). We evolved in nature so our brains might be tuned to specific sounds, that is, they have a positive psychological effect.

My father, who was also an engineer, taught me when he had a difficult problem to solve he went for a walk in the woods. The solution often just came to him by magic. I wonder if it was the walking or the "sounds"? Probably both.
Indeed. The excessively punitive clauses of the Versailles Treaty created the conditions for Germany's ruin post WWI.
The Air Force already lets local cops borrow their Predator drones. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/10/nation/la-na-drone-a...

These tiny drones are hard to arm, but they might be used for surveillance. Here's a more thorough report on the use of drones in the US: http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/report-protecting...
>- Facebook will simply not allow you to export your social graph, and that's it. You can just waste your time complaining, or delete your account, but that's all you can do.

I'm not sure that's completely true. One could write a browser extension that extracted the data slowly over time and / or use a caching proxy in order to the same thing. I've been digging in to Squid to see how this might be done, but I've just started. Also, for those with smartphones, it seems like the way mobile FB apps integrate with address books might provide another way to backup one's contacts.
Especially when you consider how Google+ got millions of users quickly and how Formspring.me was once described as "addictive". The only thing left is figure out how to be more entertaining than the competition and not get boring. Formspring.me loses its novelty value after a while.

Steve Case used to tell AOL employees, "What can you do for AOL that will get people to ignore Seinfeld after dinner and head straight for AOL?" https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+case+%22would+always+s...

However, I believe you are a minority. Few people think about creating something popular with the mass market. Most seem to want to build a "niche" product so they can buy their McMansion in the suburbs. Most people want to be engineers or entertainers, but not both.
Some of the previous submissions/discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=383210

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1666445 <- Most discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1989473

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2090256

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2122826
Not to derail the thread, but whys that?
wait... "What if Apple created their own applications for 50% of the categories in the app store and then placed their apps at the top of each category?"

So ummm none of Google own products are featured at the top of each search category? Most of the time this is not a good user experience but users and businesses have no real option!
Somehow I think this post would have been more valuable if it hadn't played stupid games about imagination.

Sorry to spoil it but the punchline is that the study that everyone claims proves "[software bugs] detected during system testing cost 10 times more to fix than in the construction phase and 10-25 times more to fix when detected post-release" actually didn't prove that and software engineering academics have been parroting it because they're citing a powerpoint presentation that doesn't mention the caveats of the study.

Would it have been so hard to lead with that fact?
One factor might be that django uni-form is being replaced with django-crispy-forms[1], some functionality of django uni-form contrib is begin rolled into django crispy forms.[2]

[1] https://github.com/maraujop/django-crispy-forms/

[2] https://github.com/maraujop/django-crispy-forms/issues/5
Skype outsourced it's development to Estonian developers, which as we know went very well. Though it's a prevalent opinion on HN, outsourcing is not inherently bad for a startup. What matters it the quality and the skills of the people, local as well as remote.
Number 2 should have the subpoint "You must travel along the curvature of the Earth" - that is, until we get IP over neutrino.

Honestly, even for a joke-RFC, this is pretty spot on.
Please do share some of these "new" ideas. The only ones I've seen are Groupon clones and each seems to get worse than the next. (Not to mention SMB's hate Groupon after using it.)
Exactly, setting up a mail server is not hard. What's hard is that you have to keep your server secure; have to make backups, and make sure that backups work; have to troubleshoot problems when mails are not delivered, god knows how much time does it take; have to train your spam filter to get to the level as half efficient as Gmail is.
Mobile Perf from Steve Sonders has this, as well as many other features - Firebug Lite, Page Resources, Docsource, Web Timing, DOM Monster, Storager, YSlow, SpriteMe, CSSess, and Zoompf

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You're going to hit nerves no matter what you say. You're discussing the use of a widely legal and popular narcotic.

I think the only mistake you made was submitting this piece to Hacker News in the first place.

To write about your personal experiences is fine, to submit them to a resource of useful information is a whole other matter.
Yeah, same here.

And the constant supervision of todays kids, the stifling not being able to get away from adults, the always being transported to something.

It scares the crap out of me to be honest.
I am familiar with the alkanes, it's just the inconsistent names that I can't remember. If the question had asked what C8H18 was called, then "octane" would roll off my tongue.

Also, I obviously haven't memorised the periodic table, nor do I immediately see why doing so is necessary for scientific literacy. Isn't understanding it enough? I bet there's plenty of scientists who can't remember the whole thing.
This is a very boring techpolitics piece but it does give one interesting thought:

In a search for privacy we are locking ourselves in other's walled gardens.
If it was 10 minutes to investigate and fix an urgent production bug, it would be OK. But he was asked time to join a teleconference in order to listen to a bug report! You can say "no" right there. A bug should be reported via a bug tracking system, maybe email for redundancy. There's no justification whatsoever to jump into a teleconference for a non-critical bug. Besides they got a QA department, so surely they have someone else (more technical than the bug reporter) who could look at it first to determine if it was really a bug, etc.

> "you sit right here with me through this whole ordeal, and every minute of mine we waste, you owe me after 5 o'clock"

That's not very savvy, to say the least. You sell your time to the company. The manager is not wasting your time, they're wasting the company's time or the "team's time" if you prefer. So you have to let him know when they're making decisions against their own best interest: "look, we have tasks A, B, and C, currently A is high priority, if you wish me to do task D, I'll be happy to do it, but it will delay A for n hours. And which of B or C should we re-schedule? I think it's C because blablah".
So let's see if I understand this.

You didn't watch it, you haven't read any of the literature about it, and you're accusing them of pseudo-science based on your very strong confirmation bias. You then say:

> I used to have to regularly take myself off to
> a quiet room when I was in an open plan space

So that's also a sample of one person.

You appear to be doing everything of which you accuse them.
""We have music playing constantly at the office with everyone sitting on long community tables.""

This sounds ... taxing. Like being at a loud cafe blasting music only you cannot get away because it's your place of work.
Yeah, it must be a huge pile of valuable IP if someone without tech knowledge can hack it together with self-taught PHP in a few weeks...

Aren't startup people supposed to be all focused on getting results? If it takes paying someone else to hack up v1, rather than you spending time on it when you should be out selling or interviewing potential customers, etc, do that.

We never hear the stories from people who self-taught PHP or Rails for 6 months hacking on an idea only to then try to give it to users and have it rejected for multiple reasons. But they happen. Probably more than anyone realizes.
The abstract from the 1998 paper is:

Three experiments examine what is widely reported to be one of the most common forms of interference in open-plan office environments—the effect of background noise. Experiment 1 investigates whether office noise (with or without speech) is disruptive to two office-related tasks: memory for prose and mental arithmetic. The results show that whereas office noise with speech disrupts performance on both tasks, office noise without speech disrupts performance on the mental arithmetic task only. Experiment 2 investigates the memory for prose task more closely by varying the duration and the meaning of the background noise. Experiment 3 examines whether the meaning of speech is important to the disruption of a mental arithmetic task. The results show that both speech and office noise can disrupt performance on memory for prose and mental arithmetic tasks, and the effect is independent of the meaning of the irrelevant speech. These results are presented and interpreted in light of current research and theories regarding the effect of background noise.
Since this is a tool I built for me and open sourced, rather than a project I designed to be open source, I'll try and explain some of my design decisions.

jsmin.c is faster, but since this is something run server-side once per build, I've never seen speed as much of a problem. On my build server this script completes in <1 second for all the files I've ever tried (My build server is Intel i7, so that might have something to do with it). Even so compared to the time needed to rsync the files to the app servers, or compress the images, this doesn't really make much difference.

Dependency graphs are cool and useful, but the idea of this project is, very much, to simply cat files together. It also has the advantage of being able to generate the bundle info file so you can use URLs with hashes in for CDN's/cache-ability (Like Rails asset pipeline does).

So in short, it was built to be a shit simple system to make my life easier, if you dislike it feel free to use something else, as is the nature of Open Source
The cynical might suspect that the idea of providing state-subsidized kindergarten to the very young, in order to promote happier children and less-stressed parents, might be something that wouldn't make it into the WSJ.
It's not a foregone conclusion at all.

From a commercial point of view, DRM "works" if it ultimately prevents more lost sales than it causes.

In a small niche market, where plenty of users are quite capable of right-click-saving a video but relatively few would know how to break more serious DRM, it is entirely plausible that such DRM would prevent a lot of casual copying.

As I said, I don't personally like this idea (and in fact our test programme isn't using DRM right now) but there have been lively discussions about this issue and the truth is that no-one really knows what would happen either way. I'm more interested in empirical evidence than thought experiments, assumptions/generalisations that small media will work the same as Big Media, or the wishful thinking of people reading on-line forums who have the luxury of risking nothing when they downvote a situation they don't like.

Edit: The other thing to keep in mind is which of these decisions are one-way. If we decide to launch with DRM and it turns out not to be effective for us, it costs us relatively little if we decide to back it out and serve everything unlocked later. On the other hand, if DRM is effective in our market but we serve everything unlocked initially and people take advantage, Pandora's box is open.
> Thats such a cop-out.

Is it really? It's an experiment (that's written on the page), it notes this can be achieved in other browsers but the author just wanted the experiment/demo out, and all the caveats are written up-front.