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Apple looking to douse Kindle Fire with 8-inch iPad
Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: ???. Step 3: Profit.
I added a tag to the support itself but it doesn't seem to stay.

Right click and delete worked perfectly, but it didn't like clicking and then hitting the delete button.

Overall, I think this pretty awesome and combined with a tablet makes more sense than paying $2k+ for some of the devices available.
To be fair you are a bit off. They tend to reject the concept of macro evolution of humans from primates/fish/randomly combining proteins.
I'd never heard of any of the "plenty of choices"... probably because I don't have an iWhateverYouHave (are they for the Apple TV or phone?).

Dropping my cable service provider wouldn't be "breaking up with my TV" either. I like my TV. I watch Netflix and YouTube and Amazon VOD on it. It's a nice screen for that.

Edit: After checking your profile, I also find it distasteful that you distribute this petition and sign it "A Frustrated TV User" when you're the author of one of those video apps you link to.
We may still not know the effects of having laptops in the classroom. Five years is little time to be measuring these things, specially considering that the ones who started using laptops have not reached majority of age. This is the same as saying that a new science curriculum does not work without having a real world test. We have to wait to see the results.

This should not be used as an excuse to implement one of this programs. Just saying that no results yet is different that net negative results or no new learning. Like someone in the comments in the article said, he became interested in computers because of his Commodore when he was little, which didn't reflect until he was of age.

P.S.: And the sight of kids on the streets, even the ones who are homeless or live in really precarious homes, using laptops and laughing is really a wonderful thing.
This is precisely what Kumon learning centers already do.

I worked at one for a few years as a tutor. Annoyingly, the biggest complaint from new parents was "My kid already did this worksheet! Why are you giving it to him again?"

I had to explain that repetition was the most important part. You could explain the science but the parents don't seem to care about that part. The parents often thought that it was de-motivational and belittling to have to do the same work over again, so we often mentioned that revisiting something you've done before and acing it the second time around can actually boost confidence quite a bit (we would sometimes make a point of showing a kid that he might not have done so well with something a few months ago, and now he did it perfectly or nearly perfectly).

PS: 99.9999% of tutoring success depended on motivation. I could teach any kid in the world anything if he was motivated, regardless of his or her knowledge when they came to us. There were only two things I figured out about how to get kids motivated that weren't:

1. Enthusiasm is contagious. The tutor damn well better be excited about the subject. The environment better be positive, and sometimes that meant telling the parents to back off. Most parents I worked with were Indian/Chinese/strict. Most were extremely good and supportive, but some were really harsh.

2. Provable, tangible progress that you can show the kid. This is another reason repetition is so important, it's half of the motivation, even if the kid doesn't outwardly admit it.
How Piictu is capitalizing on the changing role of the mobile photograph
Pretty cool! If you'd like I could add your content to http://www.hackerbooks.com/ (and link back of course). Let me know!
Well, yeah, but running everything in your house off of a 5V USB connection is a pipe dream anyway, as was pointed out in other comments. If you simply want to plug your phone directly into a wall outlet, that can be managed.
I like this idea.. I've actually been thinking about something like this for a while.

You could have a DC distribution panel next to the main one, that converts the mains voltage to 24/48 VDC for lighting circuits and DC receptacles. 240 Watts (10 or 5 Amps) could be enough to power a lot of devices on a branch, while still allowing the wires to be reasonable (14 AWG or smaller).

I think the bigger win would be for LED lighting circuits, but device chargers could use it too.
The claims are very closely aligned with the title.

Claim 1 - Linked list with two traversal orders
Claim 2 - Linked list with three traversal orders
Claim 3 - Method of traversing the lists in claim 1 and 2
Claim 4 - A device (computer) to traverse the lists in claim 1 and 2
When I'm not watching TV, I'm coding, reading a book, or listening to a quality podcast. I virtually never watch TV. I do watch The Walking Dead, but I get it off of iTunes as Dish Network indicated AMC is too premium for what we're paying them a month ($65)
Great info.

Thanks!
>Reddit exploded and started making money hand over fist.

Do you have a citation for this? I was under the impression they were still losing money and the Reddit, Inc stuff was there to allow Condi to distance itself from reddit.
Company swaps mortgage payment help in exchange for wacky house paintjob
FYI, the link to the classic valentine template in this page goes to scrollkit.com without the www, which does not exist.
"DidThis makes it easy to spread micro-actions that are fun or useful to as many people as possible around the world."

I think that messaging does you a disservice. How many people are going to hit your site and say "Finally! An easy way to spread micro-actions!" (what are micro-actions anyway?)

How about appealing to ego: "Use DidThis to tell the world what you've done and encourage others to join you."
This list reads exactly like advice from business books from the 1970s or earlier. And I mean exactly. No deviation. Nothing new.

Clearly there's more to the meeting issue or people wouldn't be shouting the same advice into the wind 40+ years later.
If anyone is looking for a challenge buy one of these things and build a snooze button app for this clock.
Security slackers risk Internet blackout on March 8
One could easily make "charge only" USB cables with the data pins disconnected. Or a passthrough dongle which does that.
Startups With A Shake Weight
Thank you for posting that last bit.
Here's one that I'm aware of that's a local start-up here in Pittsburgh.

http://nowaitapp.com/

At it's simplest, it's just a waiting list for restaurant patrons. But it eliminates the need for pagers, which saves the restaurant money. It alerts people by SMS, which means people don't have to be onsite, they could be next door shopping while they wait. It's also tracking all sorts of metrics that you previously didn't have access to.

The best part to me, is that a lot of the restaurants using it have also tied this data into their websites. So I can hop on, say http://www.burgatorybar.com/ , and see what the current wait time is.
Why is startup compensation so mysterious?
FYI, the word 'subtitle' is misspelled on the submission form. I submitted Introduction to Information Retrieval; can't believe it wasn't already on there!
Ask HN: Where to find resources on population simulation?
I'd like to try my hand on making a world population game similar to Pandemic[1], but with more realism and a much nicer interface using more modern web technologies. My background is more focused on the interface side of things, but I'm not afraid of spending time and learning algorithms.

Where could I find some papers or examples of this kind of simulation? I'm aware that there are many HNers that have math backgrounds, so I would appreciate the help.

[1](warning: sound and uses Flash): http://www.kongregate.com/games/DarkRealmStudios/pandemic-2
Are cyberflâneurs really dead?
Why does the river of love template require a password?
So, the components at play here:

1. Users are assigned a session cookie when they land on a PHP page. A CSRF token is associated with a session when users visit the login page.

2. Favicon requests were going to PHP instead of a static resource. Normally that's fine, since PHP will see the cookie.

3. But since the request looked like it was for a static resource, Varnish stripped the cookies before passing it back to Apache/PHP. That meant PHP issued a new session that replaced the old one.

All in all, a very tricky interaction between technologies (especially since Chrome didn't display the favicon request).
Why "Remember Me" Should be Above the Login Button
Using Electronics Before Bed May Hamper Sleep
VLC 2.0 to be released this week
Brown M&Ms [video]
This guy is the author to one of those apps. If you're going to run a weird marketing campaign where you have people break up with their tvs, instead of cutting cable, but then go and advertise your tv show watching app...I still think it's in your best interest to be relevant to everyone. Fail
Reminds me of a small new version the old Web 2.0 logo cloud:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/

(My failed startup was one logo to the right of Pandora - anyone else's in there?)
> Buying vs pirating... there's a third option. Abstinence.

If we were talking about rival goods, you'd be right. But we're talking about digital information here. You don't remove it from where you get it. So if your only alternative is (illegal) copying vs abstinence, then I see little reason to restrain yourself.

Furthermore, I think it is unethical to forbid the use of, say, The Pirate Bay for copying stuff you couldn't have obtained otherwise. Because it makes you poorer for no benefit at all for the copyright holders.
No search function?
Is anyone offering statsd as a service? Interested in trying it out, but don't want to maintain it.
How would this have that effect?
That use of `with` makes me squeamish as hell.

Also, on the topic of the "eta" function, it's odd that the author seems unaware of existing implementations of `bind`.
Defensive patent aggregation is about the ability to cross-license. If a troll isn't making anything, they don't need to license your patents.

Now, your own patent could in some circumstances be used as prior art against the patent troll... but if that's all you're using it for, why not just publish everything you're doing? Publications are prior art just as much as patents are.
As I said somewhere down a bit: painfully aware of this ...
Interface Secrets of Hit Apps with Mike Rundle
Lover.ly raises 500K [WOW]
It's actually not so clear-cut. The solution of presenting resources within the head of the page only works if those resources are supposed to be loaded as a result of visiting the page. That's not true of robots.txt (in fact, you want a crawler to read robots.txt before it does anything else). It's also not true of crossdomain.xml (which Flash and Java use to pre-flight cross-domain communication requests).

Personally, I'd rather require the files to be in known locations than force every client that wants the information to make a request and parse HTML.
CSS Block vs Inline
Another New Record By Apple: Apple Stock Price Reaches $500
How industries react to crises
Something sort of random I just noticed: you can wrap stuff in {} to make blocks without an actual block statement...just a random block of code. That may be pretty useful once the let keyword becomes widely available, and could be used now to maybe organize lots of code?
I don't see much of problem with loosely typed markup. Because markup is not supposed to be written by only the highly skilled engineers.

An average Joe is supposed to feel great about writing something that renders the way he/she wants without having to go into deeper stuff like semantics, validity or even cross-browser.

This is something that should be left to people who need to know it in their strata, isn't it?
Yeah I recall him touring Three Mile Island not long after the accident. Carter is not lacking intelligence, but his political skills were certainly lacking and his presidency was pretty much a debacle.
Oh I used to love playing this as a kid!

Since this is your first app, I would love to hear the story of how you built it.

And if you like, please consider sharing it on my new site http://swym.me. Hopefully, I can send some users your way!
I had the same thought, but I take it even further,

Most people also don't go to be told a challenging story, they want something simple, quick and easy like popcorn.

I don't really know how to find the source, but I once read that netflix customers will put movies they feel they should watch (like important pieces of cinema) into their queue, but when they arrive the customer let them sit around longer before watching them than a generic mindless entertainment flick.
Oh I have no doubt it's endemic to almost all contact sports, I was just pointing out that programs across the country down to the ones that 12 year old kids start playing in, often will introduce formal reward systems for the behavior.
Looks a fun product - I was wondering what the reason was for putting the source in svn on your servers rather than somewhere like Github?
Steve Jobs: You’re All Bozos
Some Google employees have mentioned on the web that the barometers are there to speed up GPS. I understand that GPS is slow when it's alone, but when it has assistance on location guesses it can be much faster. So they can use cell tower triangulation / WiFi spots for your latitude and longitude, and they can get a rough estimate of your altitude through the barometer.
I'd fully agree with the last half of this! PHP is a great language for you to have, especially depending on where you live! I know that in Seattle right now we would do anything for a PHP developer!

The next step is to get a lot better at PHP, just learning the language won't be enough you need to become a PHP assassin. Then add JavaScript to your strengths next, strong front end developers are tough to find, get in that space.

And finally, the one thing I urge ALL developers to do, get into mobile! Be sure to take on Java for Android or Objective-C for iOS! If you dominate those, you will be very well off without ever having to worry about the business side of things.
Why wouldn't you just patent the new method and even further raise the barrier to entry for competitors?
What is claimed is very clearly not just a standard linked list. We can argue about whether this patent should have been granted, and whether its claims are invalid... but there can be no dispute about whether this person has "patented a [scratch that, the] linked list."
Samsung exec: Apple’s ‘iTV’ is nothing to worry about
Ask HN: How did Pokerstars get an approved gambling app with Apple?
I thought the Apple Appstore was extremely strict with gambling for real money apps. Pokerstars just released their one:

http://www.pokerstarsmobile.com/apps/pmpc/download/

It allows real money gambling. I personally liked the Appstore's position on not allowing gambling apps, so I'm disappointed to see things like this get their foot in the door.
The graphics reminds me a lot of Star Control (I and II). Which is one of the best games ever created.

Here is the UrQuan Masters (the open source version of it): http://sc2.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
+1. Talk like a user, not like an entrepreneur. Sell benefits, not features. Avoid jargon (micro-actions?!).
This is called the "No true Scotsman" fallacy, and it's one of the sloppiest fallacies you can commit. It's astonishing how many people cling to it with regards to Marxism. The same thing can be said of anything. The Nazi regime wasn't really fascist. Obama isn't really a liberal. Bush wasn't really a conservative, etc, etc. All of those statements are true. And no true conservative would start a war of aggression. And no true Marxist would butcher millions.

In fact, the Soviets were constantly justifying their policies based on the writings of Marx and Lennon.
I was more commenting on the topic of hard games than on your game specifically.

Also congratulations. I hope this works out well and I will look forward to playing a good, hard game :)
I never had a TV habit (1), but I waste as much time as any TV viewer (or more) as well (on the Internet mostly, though I do read a lot).

(1) my father is a bit of a luddite, so I never had cable growing up, and never had a TV just for myself.
Not sure if you've ever ziplined before, but the experience is totally different than hiking. Ziplining is definitely worth experiencing.
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I'm not aware of anyone offering it as a service, and I don't know how well it would work. Since it's all UDP, there's risk of data loss. We experience essentially no loss within our network (less than one one-hundredth of a percent in testing), but not sure what things would look like going elsewhere.

I know what you mean about fearing the maintenance -- in particular, getting the node.js statsd daemon, Graphite, and Whisper (the default storage and front-ends, in Python) running can be pretty tricky and intimidating. I'd suggest taking a look at the alternate implementations out there -- etsy has a list at https://github.com/etsy/statsd/wiki, and there are a few more not on there as well -- and see if any of them seem more your speed. For us, we really didn't want to introduce a whole extra set of infrastructure requirements to run a Django app and accouterments, which is how we landed on using our own implementation (in Ruby).
Buyed it.

No sound. The screenshots are original size. Apart from that, great humor.

It's a nice little Point & Click. For a little less than 4 Euros, why not?
Remixing Android: Marko Gargenta's preso from Android Open
There's librsync [0], although it's not compatible with the rsync program. Duplicity [1] uses it.

[0] http://librsync.sourceforge.net
[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org
You might try starting from this link, which was posted a few days ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equation
thoughts will be very much appreciated guys.
What you are saying is kind of outside the scope of this article right? Without going into his shortcomings or strengths do you agree or disagree with anything he says in this specific post?
Show HN: Postmates is delivering happiness today in SF
> If you spend the time and money to patent your software, you won't be changing it any time soon, even if you eventually discover that there is a better way to design your product.

How does that follow?

It certainly isn't true with physical device patents, like automatic transmission mechanisms, so why would software be any different?
Based on Apple's previous releases I just don't see this going through. It seems a bit excessive to create a product that fits in between the size of an iPod & an iPad.
Sony figures out how to charge you for using a power outlet
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Kathleen Malda Read That Story
British small businesses using more independent workers
The Nexus S has official ICS, Sprint's 4G version does not (but it looks like it's on it's way--a 4G build was leaked recently).
Reply to an Old Friend
My first post to HN after reading for several months and learning a lot.
So apparently 'visual inspiration' is the trend this year? I guess that's better than daily deals.
Building Games Using the MVC Pattern - Tutorial and Introduction
Whoops! I've fixed it
How digital ads are sold: box seats, rooftop parties, and ski trips to Utah
A Guide to Conference Call Etiquette
I couldn't help but be reminded of this video from Steve Ballmer talking about the iPhone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

IMO it is a bad idea to /not worry/ about apple hedging into your vertical.
High Availability at Braintree
But he basically positioned "Clocky" so it couldn't run onto the floor, right? I think that Clocky solves this problem better, as long as you don't sabotage it to begin with.

Of course, if you have a messy floor, that could stop clocky, as well.
I have tried some html5 game making myself, and I must say that although it looks promising, at the moment it's still a lot easier to make the equivalent game in flash (and there is no reason why a game like that can't be made in flash).
Risk Nothing, Find Romance
> An average Joe is supposed to feel great about writing something that renders

Indeed HTML is great for that, but the problem is that you never "level up". Once your content renders, you are done. A lot of Joes may be interested in how things work behind the scenes or in making things "correct" more than "just working". It would be great, from a pedagogical point of view, to have browser render Joe's content (for instant gratification) but also to point out that "Ehi, on line 32 you closed </p> before </i>. It should be the other way around because of this rule called nesting, have a look at it". I think we are wasting a lot of man-years around the globe for the lack of such warnings.

In the education of many people, compiler errors and warning had exactly this function: they made you do whatever you wanted (as long as decent) but they would also pointed out the basic mistakes ("Ehi, on line 14 you print the variable prg_name, but that variable has not been initialized, beware").
Yeah, we've been having some really bizarre DNS problems, that I've never encountered before. Thanks for letting us know though.
> I think my idea of holding your own patent was not for the ability to counter-sue, but (and I am quite obviously not a lawyer) so you have a legal basis to petition for dismissal of the patent troll's suit.

What, exactly is this "basis"?

Note that a given thing can be covered by multiple patents, owned by different people.

Yes, patents can be prior art against other patents, but you don't need to own a patent to use it as prior art.
Showing what formats the book is available in would be really helpful. Some of these are not free for download, but only to read online.

Licensing info might be useful as well. Some of these are free to read but not to distribute.
Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare (full-text .PDF)
Ask HN: Would you agree bad UI does not mean bad UX?
I always believe UX ≠ UI. So sites/apps with great UI might not have great UX which is easy to understand. But would you agree to "bad UI might not be bad UX"?
I'm just saying it's not surprising he didn't get a scholarship from a div 1 school. Athletic divisions may be enrollment based, but generally correspond to top levels of play. Smaller schools known to be a powerhouse in a sport can petition to play in the top division. Where I grew up in Minnesota, the hockey team with the most division AA championships is in a small town and only has about 350 students. Even Palo Alto high school plays Division 1 in baseball and women's volleyball. If it was known as a basketball powerhouse, Lin probably would have received more attention.

With your correction, there's still only 4500 Div 1 basketball scholarships available. Did anyone else in his division get such a scholarship?

In each state, there is at least one guy with his stats in the equivalent division who also doesn't get a scholarship. My cousin was 6 foot 5, averaged 30 points a game, led his team to state, was very athletic and won summer dunk contests, but played division 3, so still wasn't good enough to even play in college, in any division, much less get a scholarship. I went to college with Devean George and he was only there because didn't get scholarships anywhere, either.
In a larger sense, this is rubbish. It's a man-made rule that you can't take bottled drinks (or can't take X for any X) on a flight. Not allowing bottled drinks on flights is particularly stupid in light of exactly how the "two part explosive" is made, and in light of what the goobers in the terror plot using two part explosives wanted to blow up (the terminal).

This is like a headline saying that a dog has spent a frugalpopillion dollars to figure out how to bite a postman. It's a "so what". The real headlines ought to be about how the TSA and the USA feds are running roughshod over constitutional rights. Frikken lapdog news outlets...