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Do you know if this is an experiment or a real product Amazon has developed. I can't tell which, because I couldn't find an 'about' page or similar.

As developed now, I find it difficult to navigate around the site as easily as the original wikipedia because the search and navigation headers have been removed.
Hasn't Nokia abandoned Symbian in favor of WP7? Presuming they have, wouldn't developing for that platform be the same as spending resources to come out with an app for SideKick?
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this is just brilliant. i just had to write a comment to appreciate.
If humans can't recognize intelligence, then we won't be able come up with some other test to recognize intelligence.
This is totally off-topic but why, oh why, must publishers still break the stories over to 2-5 pages? Why is this ancient optimization still such a common and seemingly ever-continuing practice?

I understood it in the 1990's when bandwidth was scarce and downloading a 5KB beginning of an article made sense instead of downloading a 30KB complete text before you could evaluate if it's a good article or a bad article. But these days the text body is still few kilobytes but it is decorated with hundreds of kilobytes of images, advertisements, and scripting while the broadband could suck up even a lot more. So we actually end up using a lot more bandwidth because we have to essentially load the same article several times, at different sections.

Printable versions and Readability do help but it's still a nuisance. Who would lose and lose what if the articles were generally offered on a single page?
I'm a girl in tech, and I think nothing in that introduction is offensive.

I feel that there are five points here that need addressing.

1. Women rarely become attractive by doing nothing. We have to work at it. You have to take care of yourself, go to the gym, eat right, choose appropriate clothing, and etc. I have never laid eyes on Rebecca Lovell, but if she's attractive then I think it is a safe assumption that she is trying to be attractive. If I were Rebecca, I would be pleased that my efforts had been noted and approved of.

2. If the fellow who introduced Rebecca had implied that her attractiveness was her only useful quality, I would be more sympathetic to Dan's complaint. But the introduction didn't do that. In fact, he led off by saying how smart Rebecca was, and then he went on to describe her as "perfect" (for the position) and "talented." At no point did he imply that Rebecca was chosen for her looks or that her looks were her claim to fame. On the contrary, his introduction seems genuinely kind, respectful, and affectionate.

3. Even if this introduction had been offensive -- if the introducer had said "Rebecca is hot and stupid and we will enjoy looking at her while she moderates" -- is it really that big a deal? Men insult each other all the time in similar contexts, and it's very rare that they get criticized for it as when women are insulted. If we women are worth a damn, surely our egos should be sturdy enough to handle this sort of thing like adults.

4. I have often heard men say "No wonder there aren't more women in tech; they get treated like sex objects!" It should be news to no one that men like sex -- least of all to women. People in all industries and with all interests are insulted all the time. Can it really be true that womens' interest in tech is so fragile and tenuous that vague insults and sexual innuendo are enough to discourage them from it entirely? I don't believe that, and I'd further venture to say that women who do say that are just making excuses because they're interested in something else. I got my CS degree from Georgia Tech, and in the College of Computing men outnumbered women 9 to 1. I was often the only girl in my classes, and sometimes I was exposed to immature male freshmen being immature male freshmen. This wasn't a trial for me; it wasn't difficult. I wasn't alienated. It sounds crazy to even consider that references to breasts or sex (gasp!) would make me leave my chosen field of study. Who cares if I know that someone wants to have sex with me?

5. Dan Shapiro is clearly trying to do right by women and be a good man, and I respect and appreciate that. But I think he is selling Rebecca (and all women) short by suggesting that that introduction should hurt her feelings.
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Without dates, do you mean you're flexible and you just want to see the best price in the next 60 days or something? Kayak explore might work (kayak.com/explore)
Yes. I saw that too. No idea why. Tried fixing all forms of redirects.
Again, you are speaking in terms that make it difficult to extract your meaning, so correct me if I have failed to understand what you are trying to say.

In particular I would be interested to hear what some of these phenomena are. See, the lack of a "concrete explanation" isn't really a useful thing to say about something. We don't yet have anything that could be called a "concrete explanation" of even things like gravity. What we do have are theories that allow us to make useful predictions about how gravity will effect things. Imperfect as those, like all, theories are, we've still put stuff on other planets with them.

There certainly are many "open problems" in science, but to my knowledge we have yet to ever encounter anything that is fundamentally beyond the grasp of the physical sciences. Take for example the Coronal Heating Problem: On the surface it seems to violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics (which is some rather heavy shit...) but even in extreme cases like that science solders on. There are numerous hypothesis that have been proposed to explain it, and over time our understanding of it will only become more robust.

Anyway: To address this particular concern I'd like to say that until we have any strong evidence to suggest that humans possess a more powerful model of computation than we already regularly reason about, we have to assume that they do not.
I've been seeing some more Hipmunk ads on Google and they have some billboards on the 101 freeway in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, air search is a low margin business so it's hard to get aggressive on advertising and expect to break even w/o the ability to upsell to packages like the online travel agencies do.
> But these days the text body is still few kilobytes but it is decorated with hundreds of kilobytes of images, advertisements

Multiple page views for a single article means multiple advertisement impressions, which often means more money for the publishers.
This comment is of course in no way any more appropriate than the conference introduction.
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> "What does joe schmoe know about the nuances around patent law?"

Just curious--pretty much neutrally curious--do you feel the same way about medicine? Civil engineering?

"What does joe schmoe know about the nuances around prenatal genetic screening?"

"What does joe schmoe know about the nuances around suspension bridges?"
I'd suggest you perhaps review the impact systems make by reviewing google search engine, facebook app platform, adroid/ios/windows8 apps and their intricacies.

After all, these are the stuff people use daily. You'd have a better chance if you go into high and low details of implementations ex. algorithms, math and relevant areas related per system.
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It is true that are probably many niche markets that pay respectable income to people who are willing to invest 10-20 hours per week. It's just like how many people become successful at their weekend hobbies and sports.

But many things these days resemble a game of winner takes all(social products, App Store leaderboard, etc...) If you are striving for a top spot in one of these areas, chances are you are facing competitors who are working both "hard" AND "smart". The claim that you can work 10-20 hours a week and stay competitive in these situations just seems overly optimistic to me.
Please point out where in the post I said that these other travel aggregator sites are "essentially worthless". I'd really like to know. If I recall I merely pointed out that I don't see it as noticeably better than kayak. I'm pretty sure this is a direct quote: "Hipmunk is a useful product . . . I want to make that clear."
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This is important because this Texas court is not just any court but THE court where most patent law is deliberated. The fact that this was struck down here is a victory. Most of these trolls are shell corps setup by a group of lawyers with no technical council strictly to manipulate the legal system to extort money from tech companies willing to settle than battle it out in court. I hope this starts to slow the onslaught of frivolous lawsuits by wanna be lawyers. We spent Millions last year out of our R&D budget to defend ourselves from this nonsense. They target companies with potential and growth and use models to determine optimal circumstances for settlement. Maybe this will slow the destruction of innovation and American jobs driven by these greedy people. Lawyers wonder why they have a bad rap but yet they don't seem to police their own. Sadness:(
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Our whole startup (Wingify) spent one week in Thailand during December. Here are our pics: http://team.wingify.com/thailand-trip-pictures

Though, to be honest, we couldn't work much there. It was all fun and adventure.
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This is a sort of weird criterion, but I'm partial to the CVs done in LaTeX...
I could use this but I won't say I 'need' it. It would be nice to just 'gem install' without having to go thru the packaging process.

It's probably most useful for developers that frequently use multiple machines or have built lots of private gems. But with Github at $7+ a month, I couldn't justify paying $9/month.
A lot of people of that stature were also miserable, abusive, and self-centered. It almost seems to come with the territory. For most of us shooting for a better life balance is probably much more likely to make us happy.
After you work with a few MIT grads and Stanford Comp Sci. PhDs you realize that they're not that special. Their pedigree does not measure how well they'll do as a startup founder or software developer per say. It's about your drive, direct skill and ability.

One University of Toronto Math postdoc I talked to in the airplane shuttle back to Palo Alto, and now works at stanford says that Stanford Undergrads have about the level of difficulty at the UoT students, except they do more extra curriculars. It might be related to the weather.

University degree Brands are cheap and lazy filters, and on top of that, their a branding upon people, one of the most inconsistent 'products' in the world. Degrees indirectly correspond to the persons ability and the amount of wealth their family has. Don't look at them more than that.
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Don't compare yourself to a strawman stuffed with everyone else's achievements.

Everyone looks bad compared to the aggregate. Individual differences are more manageable.

Stripe's success has more to do with hard work than genius.
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Kind of interesting related snippet from July 2011:

>The morning concluded with a talk by Gary Landreth from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Landreth has worked for several years to identify ApoE-directed therapeutics. As one of the genes involved in cholesterol homeostasis, ApoE is regulated transcriptionally by PPARγ and liver X receptors, which both form heterodimers with the retinoid X receptor (RXR). Working with APP transgenic mice, Landreth found that an RXR agonist, bexarotene, induces brain ApoE quickly and robustly. This induction precedes a rapid decline in brain amyloid, an increase in plaque-clearing microglia, and improvements in cognitive performance. Landreth noted that bexarotene is an FDA-approved chemotherapeutic that readily crosses the blood-brain barrier and has minimal side effects, most of which are associated with its action on lipid homeostasis. Hence, this drug minimally represents a test of the role of Aβ in AD and, maximally, may represent an AD therapeutic, he suggested. The presentation elicited a discussion of the utility of the drug in ApoE4-positive individuals, i.e., if ApoE4 represents a toxic gain of function, then bexarotene-induced increases in ApoE4 may exacerbate AD. Landreth noted that the drug has been in use for roughly a decade without reports of cognitive deficits as a side effect.

From http://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2850
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I can't believe I read through the whole thing - it started off kind of crazy. Still, just as Flegr himself says, the change in behavior is minimal - chances are high that the average individual's life wouldn't be much different whether he/she had the parasite or not.

Still, it's amazing how such a primitive organism can change your brain's function - makes you wonder if there's a parasite that's making people stupid/smart/lazy/etc.
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I agree, that is a very reasonable position. But we are still a long way from proving the position. And until the position has been demonstrated true, then there is room for speculation. Which is what longbets is all about.
It also kind of explains the pyramids... it wasn't aliens, it was cats! :-)
Wow. That is kind of weak. Then again, my snowboards tend to ride inside and frankly, I'm not sure an electric vehicle is going to make it up the mountain to Tahoe anyway.
The web is at enough of a disadvantage WRT native apps as it is. If you disallow the kinds of enhancements that depend on a more intimate relationship with the browser, like -webkit prefixes, you put them that much further behind.
Hi there...thanks for the clarifying! Language is incredibly loaded and we're all guilty. I absolutely intended that the presenter was not attuned to the impact of his speech. Here's more on that thread. http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2012/02/startup-dudes-cut-sex...
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On the other hand we've have noticed people branded as C-class talent kicking ass of A and A+s too, haven't we?
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Well that's understandable, it makes sense that a developer would want to build up their reputation before attempting a bigger budget game like this. Just make a few smaller games and use the success of those to help raise funds for a larger one.
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This is a much more typical indie game funding scenario:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bravadowaffle/roboarena-...

I'm fairly sure that this was the second attempt at getting funding on Kickstarter, the first failed to raise enough funds.
Yeah, even already knowing git isn't necessary. If you didn't learn git, you could learn it, and then you have the skills to use it for all sorts of stuff.

No specialized wiki software can be a DVCS or backup system.
I didn't see anything disruptive about Hipmunk. ITA Software's Matrix UI and iOS app are already excellent. Isn't Hipmunk already using ITA anyway for data?
How can they call it a parasite?

It's clearly a commensal symbiote: for cats, it assists them in catching prey.

In rats and humans, its changing prevalance helps adjust the relative expression of different behavioral strategies, faster than inheritance alone could.

For example, the risk-taking and increased libido in rats shifts the infected slightly along the K-strategy/r-strategy reproductive spectrum. In some environments that's a win, others a loss, but the T.gondii increases rat behavior diversity, and thus the species' adaptability.

Similarly, its modulating effects on human suspicion, gregariousness, investment in fitness-signalling (clothing), and obedience/trust sometimes help and sometimes hurt, depending on an ever-changing environment.

What if we 'cured' this and found the resulting human populations were less resilient against war, ecological stresses, and rapid technological/cultural change?

(I'm only half joking. And a meta-parasite is making me write apologetics for other parasites. And this entire comment is just a long way of saying "I, for one, welcome our new Toxoplasmosis gondii overlords" without getting immediately downvoted.)
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Couchdb keeps old versions of documents. And it is document oriented. So there's that.
And yet if someone is "biased" against murder, they will let you be a witness in a murder trial. Love the legal system.
I know humor is sort of frowned up on HN but that was hilarious.
exactly, and that is why webkit (but not only - aka the extensions) are the problem.

if the browser has a large market share people will use it 'wrong' aka not just for experimentation.

its like waving with free candy and blaming people for taking it.
The other disadvantage: E911.

I know that Skype explicitly states that it's not a replacement for a phone and can't be used for emergency calling. What about Google Voice? I would assume that it has the same restrictions.
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I thought that was the point. Making a group of people who are usually dishing out this kind of thing think twice about how it feels to have the situation reversed.
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You work hard. Play small venues for little money or code in the hours after work, and roll the limited profits you make from that into something bigger. As independent artists and developers have been doing since money has existed. You think that 'traditional means' will bankroll you if you're unproven? In order to get a studio's interest you need to have fans already.
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Well let's take your example of gravity. We know a lot about it. Like you said, we've put stuff on other planets. And we have satellites in orbit. Amazing. But even with that we're still theorizing about exactly how it works. And we definitely can't recreate it.

It's possible that there are hard limitations on our ability to recreate some of the very fundamental phenomena we experience in everyday life. Intelligence may be among them.
I'm not sure what you mean by "WebKit won on mobile" (maybe you mean in US) but you may be interested to know that the most popular mobile browser is Opera [1]. WebKit still has a majority when you combine iPhone, Android and Nokias but I wouldn't say it's won. The race for the mobile web isn't over yet.

[1] http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/01/browser_stat...
> But you are asking all the non-WebKit browsers to not render the mobile web properly.

I don't think that's a fair caracterisation. It's perfectly proper to render a mobile site as you're told do, which is what browsers correctly do right now.
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Why do we have those prefixes in the first place? Ok, ok, test new functionalities is a good thing, but create bad practices among developers it is not.

All the problems with IE began when they (M word) started their with own implementation of javascript, CSS, and even HTML (automatic close for tags is not ok people, developers need to learn).

It is not your (browser vendors) responsibility to define your own interpretation of the standards. We have organizations that take care of this for you. All the problems involving incompatibilities began with browser vendors trying to "simplify" developers life giving their own version of the "standard".

If a new functionality is not part of the standards yet it must be a reason. Why not respect that and avoid all sort of complications?

Why the rush?

Force organizations to release early pieces of work will generate bad industry standards.

Do not like the way how one standard is defined?

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might be voted down, but that's pretty insightful. just remove the inflamatory "webkit is the new IE6" and its actually very accurate.
Yes, in the end making a choice is about making a trade-off. If we need easy to query data storage then RDBMS are better.
> With projects like Compass (http://compass-style.org) for SASS/SCSS, those abstraction layers are there.

That's nonsense, those "abstraction layers" are inserted statically during deployment, they don't improve as browsers improve. When Google or Apple adds a proprietary -webkit- property which may never get standardized, Compass has no way to make that property available to all browsers in sites built at the time the property was solely proprietary as browsers gradually implement it (and it gets standardized) over the next years.
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What I meant to state in my post is that so far I have not seen "a lot of progress." Feel free to show me anything that may change my mind.
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One of the problems is, vendor prefixes have both "beta" and "proprietary" meanings. And there's no way to disambiguate from the property's name.

And browser vendors will ship proprietary extensions, whether you like it or not.
I think these guys are particularly unique and talented. But I don't think most follow this trajectory of amazingness. Lots of incredible founders never went to an Ivy League school. Most didn't attend MIT or Harvard.
Agreed. But we'd have to agree on what standard of intelligence we're considering. Turing is only one standard. And I would say not a very high one if being compared to human intelligence.