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Hmm, apparently they don't have branches in NYC or LA/SF, which are the places I'm going... Thanks for the help, though!
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How is the hippy currency peer-to-peer? Isn't it just like any other fiat currency?
Exactly, it is the difference between "go and see it yourself" and using intermediaries to tell you about the world.

The intermediaries could distort this information for their own profit like "war on terror" to create wars, or to sell more, or to eliminate adversaries(portray only what is bad about them).

I don't think everybody would be depressed if they saw how their gadgets are made, in fact it would be very useful to know to decide and choose those that make your gadgets right, but it cost a little more.
Why do you care where they have branches? I've never been to one.
Microsoft extended it to Jan 15 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2671501
That would be so slow it probably isn't worth doing.
If you want to use the actual Rasberry Pi in a product, I think the most practical choice is a range accessorized hobbyist platforms. This would be much like the arduino and its shields except that it is possible to exploit multimedia capability.
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Cheers, but it ain't got anything to do with me -- it's Justin Windle's: http://soulwire.co.uk/hello
Ask HN: How to get written on Tech Blogs?
I'm currently running a startup and would really like to learn how to get on tech blogs like tech crunch, mashable, readwriteweb etc...

I was thinking about emailing bloggers and tell them about my personal story and how I started the business. Should i build a connection first before i start to email them? What are the basic steps on getting mentioned on tech blog websites? How did your company get mentioned?
There are still plenty of people with hardware that has less than 4 GB of RAM. For those people, there's not generally an advantage in running a 64-bit OS if all their applications are available in 32-bit versions.
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Happy to see that the Pirate Party is standing up for fair copyright laws regardless of who their opponent is. Hopefully this law will whither away.
U.S.:North Korea agrees to suspend nuclear activities
Himachal gets national tourism award
> Edit: if this truly is because of 2/29, I guess anyone signing up from now on will get perfect service.

At least for the next 4 years
Simply because Bose provides poor value for money. They have some good products but they're overpriced. They charge you extra for the brand reputation they've spent millions on cultivating in the unwashed masses.
It took them a while to build that in. So secure and fast, but something as basic as this (which the competition got since day one) has no priority apparently.
The cloth simulation runs incredibly smooth, while the attraction demo is terribly slow (Chrome 17 OSX). Strange?
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Ask HN: Why only I can see my submitted links and comments?
This is an account I created just for this post and I'm sorry for this but I thought of no other way.

When using my account (gpambrozio) I can post and I can see my posts. But if I log out I cannot see them anymore. Did I do something wrong and my account got banned or something?
Seems that's intentional, even without a pinned gmail tab:
"Say yes, and clicking on email links in any application on your computer will open a fresh Gmail compose window."
"I came to realize that the more informed we are, the less happy we become because of our tendency to get caught up in constant comparisons."

This should have been his conclusion, not some made up theory about why the state of the world seems worse than it really is.

This isn't news. Rousseau called it amour propre.[1][2] It is the unhappiness and dissatisfaction peculiar to modern society, wherein constant comparisons with others give us new values, breed competition and the urge for power, and prevent happiness. It also leads to a sort of schadenfreude written about by others: you only enjoy what you have insofar as nobody else has similar enjoyments.

And Rousseau is mostly known as a political theorist; who knows how many others have noticed precisely this phenomenon. Yet nobody seems to know how to overcome this, despite this also being written about. (Sorry, I don't have any more sources off hand, ask me and I'll come up with them when I have time.)

The surest way: ego-death. The longer yet easier way: realize that others are not their belongings, accomplishments, or even their past or their future; these are effects, the person is the cause. Internalize this fact by acting in accordance with it: deliberately try to see others only as themselves, not as a collection of effects. Then realize the same is true of you and start acting like it.

[1] The wikipedia article is useful, but doesn't give a good understanding of amour propre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Inequality
[2] The SparkNotes glossary puts it plainly: http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/inequality/terms.html
I want a Raspberry Pi in an AppleTV-like black case, and I'll pay $99 for that, delivered in a beautiful box.

Apple has shown that a box like that sells like hotcakes but they won't do it for a low-price computer device or will lose the nice profits of the mac mini.

So here, a R-Pi in a beautiful case and box for $99.
How is IE10? It sounds like it's going to be competitive with Chrome in both HTML5 compatibility and performance.

http://html5test.com

Is Microsoft still doing the silent update for IE?
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Because they're Microsoft products and the stigma around them is that MS products have no future and become abandoned quickly or go nowhere fast.

I really, really don't believe that. What consumer-facing product was abandoned quickly in the Zune era? The Kin was an unmitigated disaster, sure, but when people think of MS they think of Windows, Office and (perhaps) Xbox- none of which have been abandoned.
I believe Google Calendar also asks if you want iCal files to be opened in Google Calendar. I think other sites could register as that protocol handler as well.
It's an absolutely iconic magazine; yes it's worth it.

I usually purchase in a store when I happen to come across one that looks interesting, but I have ordered online once and didn't have issues.

If you're interested in the subject matter I'd recommend trying again.
Mozilla B2G demo (for developers), with videos and a live demo you can try
Yeah, and I noticed my paycheck arrived a day early.
While it's nice to see projects such as this, it's somewhat of a pity that most of such solutions are specific to a single language, runtime or environment. I recently started working on something similar, but which is supposed to glue code from any language or environment together (somewhat like AMPQ etc, but on a slightly lower level, I guess...): http://dev.yorhel.nl/doc/commvis
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How many monitors support HDMI? And can you see anything with A/V resolution? No, so just make that just "ready to be connected to a newer TV or an expensive computer monitor".

Also, how many people build code to run on ARM? Not quite as many as Intel-based/AMD. Maybe 3-4%? No, maybe 2%? No, how about 1%? Not even. Oops. Fail.
The bad news for Microsoft isn't that Azure is down, it's that only a tiny number of people even noticed.
Hopefully of the Amsterdam variety.
Metaphors about computers may be wrong...though the metaphor of architecture seems apt (even in light of my personal bias).

Metaphors using computers as a model for the mind are more interesting, because such metaphors follow a long tradition of equating the mind to technologically advanced systems.

Brain as computer metaphors are just the contemporary version of brain as hydraulics (e.g. Avicenna's humorism) or the more recent brain as mechanics (e.g. Leibniz's mill). Turing's test and Searle's Chinese room are relevant thought experiments pointing out the problems inherent in mapping systems to thought.
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I haven't played video games in a long time. Exactly as that writer says I find combat dreadfully dull. I wouldn't play any bioware games unless a no-combat mode is possible. But there is a genre of entertainment that's perfect for me. It's called Visual Novels. It combines all the best parts of multiple media with the interactivity of gaming. A popular visual novel you might've heard of is Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney. There's a ton more in that genre.

Here's a HTML5 example:

http://visualnoveldai.com/visualnovels/narcissu
I get the impression from the story that his second wife was trying to give him exactly that sort of counsel, but he didn't listen. If so, the moral of that story is, when someone you trust advises you to just chill and not shoot yourself in the foot, listen to her.
While I agree with your general sentiment and have said similar things myself, I want to note that I read once that if you ask a room full of women how many have been raped, about half the hands go up. If you ask how many have had sex after saying "no", about 90% of the hands go up. So rape -- I.E. non consenting sex -- appears to be fairly common (and other violent/unfortunate events seem to be plenty common as well). A lot of people just do not talk openly about the experience because it makes them feel ashamed or because of the negative reactions of other people or simply because it is not deemed appropriate for polite conversation. I was molested and raped as a child and I am quite open about that fact, which makes many people very uncomfortable with me. It also causes some people to share their story with me privately, people who do not normally admit to what they have been through.

I think "news" focuses on the negative because it helps the human race to survive. I mean running around announcing a storm is coming can help save lives whereas running around announcing it is a beautiful sunny day does not typically have a protective function.
To learn any programming language, I would advise, in this particular order:

- Have a project idea or a goal

- Get basic python knowledge (any renown book or tutorial will do[1]) and get an overall feeling of the language, philosophy, main frameworks

- Make sure that Python is the right tool for what you want to make or at least one of the possible tools

- Start your project and learn along the way by researching how to solve problems the right way

- Make your project work

- Make it work better

- Make it work faster

Bonus: Insert somewhere:

- Other programmers' opinions on your code

[1] Resources: http://www.diveintopython.net/, http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Also, see this thread on StackOverflow for other popular resources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70577/best-online-resourc...
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Can't we do better than intercontinental fiber optic cables?
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It's a valid point of view, but I don't think that should be restrictive. They said in the blog that the intention is to subsidize and enable educational uses by making it available for everyone and all kinds of projects. The educational package is coming in September.
Has anyone tried running it under Parallels Desktop 7? Thanks.
Opensourced OAuth2 server implementation for Ruby on Rails.
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Standard Coffeescript (in my experience).

edit: hah, just saw who i replied to.

double edit: the renderer hierarchy he created is yet another good example of why I believe coffeescript needs interfaces...
True. Moreover, with this price and features it is stupidly trivial to attach a computer source to your TV now. No excuses not to. Attach a cheap wireless dongle (<10$) and you got yourself a versatile streamer for less than 40$[1].

[1] AFAIK this does not include the essential SD card
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It might make a nice covert Ethernet packet sniffer.
I hope it convinces other large manufacturers like TP-Link that there is a market for little things like this that are open and we see a few more jump in.

Being able to run apache or lighttpd on it, python, ROR, etc but still staying cheap enough to "waste" one to stick in your washing machine's panel just to tell you when your socks are clean will open up "internet of things" programming to a huge number of people.

Finally, restful control of my cat feeder.
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iPad2/iPhone4S + AirPlay already do that.
I have a side project where I want to figure out how to host a database on github. If there was a javascript API for doing git business on github, then could just update the database to and fro. It would be messy of course but it wouldn't matter. Because you would have a dynamic app up on github for free (or 7/month if you wanted your secret sauce to stay secret).
Is a 50/50 split more generous than most affiliate plays? This is a slice of slice we're talking about here. I suppose if the API make for quick, painless integration on websites - music and sports blogs have nothing to lose. But not sure it makes sense to suggest you could build an entire mobile app around it.
Aren't 64-bit processors a little more efficient at running a 64-bit operating system?
Your theory is ridiculous. The Xbox 360 was a major success.

The Zune failed because people didn't like it. Not because it's a Microsoft product. Same goes for Windows Phone 7, it is failing because people don't like it.

Now whether it's a better product or not is a subjective debate that isn't worth having, IMHO (better for whom?) But to say that they failed because of the Microsoft stigma is absurd.
Interesting experiment, but I don't think webdevs should interfere with what client should be run by the user to send the email. Mailto: works just fine, and it's up to the user to set up the client for mailto.
"I’ve seen what you can get, and we still don’t have many of the things. So, we need to work harder. Then, I’m sure, one day we will get there." - That's the spirit!

The only reason why they're not happy is that they make the (very common) mistake of delaying the happiness until the end result. With so much to learn and so much to achieve in this world, that end result never comes, that's why we need to learn to enjoy the process of getting there itself.

Enjoy the road, not the destination! Look back at what you've achieved - be proud! Look at what others have achieved - be happy for them! Set your eyes on the next thing you want and go ahead and try to get it - that's the best way to be happy, even in a first world country (that sounds weird :-)).
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Thanks, the ? character was causing issues
Engadget's conclusion:

"We really liked Windows 7 when it launched. It felt like a big step forward in the short time that had passed since Vista. Now, as we creep closer to a likely release near the end of this year, we can't shake a sense of doubt. Windows 8 still feels like two very different operating systems trying to be one. The potential is hugely alluring -- a single OS to rule both the tablet and the desktop -- and with each subsequent version we keep hoping this will be the one that ties it all together. Sadly, as of the Consumer Preview, we're still seeing a lot of loose threads.

As it stands, Windows 8 is a considerably better tablet operating system than any previous version has managed to be. However, it's still a clumsier desktop OS than Windows 7. That's a problem Microsoft must fix before release."

I feel the same way. By trying to please everyone, Microsoft will please no one, and will frustrate 95% of the Windows users out there who will be very confused not just by the tile interface, who is much different than what they are used to, but also by the disconnect between these two interfaces.

Microsoft is trying to win the few who want a tablet interface at the expense of the vast majority who want a PC, mouse-oriented interface for their...PC's and laptops.
[Rational] ignorance [can be a qualified] bliss.
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Can you imagine a studio director coming out to say that he doesn't watch movies?

I can, and to give a tech example of this analogy, here's a quote from the guy who wrote the first version of PHP:

I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.

Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf
Good catch! fixed
Visual Studio 2012 beta is out as well - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads
Looks like you've been hellbanned.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was because of too many submissions getting flagged.
If their forums were up, you'd see that they said that they have no plans for U.S. distribution anytime soon.

In addition, the HDMI support means you are locked into a T.V., or a computer monitor with HDMI which isn't as common, and the ARM architecture means most of the pre-built code out there won't run on it.

I was caught up in the hype too originally thinking of everything I would do with it, but basically, it is a slow computer without a case that will have few OS options, few software options, and that you could connect to a T.V. While there is much you could do with that, it certainly puts it into perspective.

A better option for most would be to find a used computer on Craigslist or eBay. However, if you live in the UK and are truly interested in a small ARM computer and have everything else you need to use it, go for it. I won't.
Exactly.. Not sure why my comment was down voted - sure, maybe pinging is disabled and that part of my comment wasn't valid. But still, isn't responding.
I can put this together with one of those little battery powered LED pico projectors and then attach it to my robot.

How else is it going to tell Obi Wan that he's our only hope?
Will Chrome or Firefox even work in the "tile interface"? My guess is it won't.
I love how people like to sit in a tree and talk about how other people think. Did you own a Zune and not like it? If not, then don't say "the Zune failed because people didn't like it" because as a Zune and iPod user who loves the Zune and hates the iPod, you don't know what you are talking about.
Guaranteed income. If the economy doesn't require everyone's labor, a bunch of people just shouldn't work, so make sure they can eat and you're done. I don't understand all this American obsession with jobs for everyone.
> I do argue with the following paragraph: I don't see why prototypes-based languages should be more memory compact than class-based

In most class-based languages, when you create an instance, you allocate memory sufficient for all instance variables defined by its class and superclasses. But in a prototype language, when you create an object, you only allocate memory for the instance variables in which it is different from its parents. That often results in enormous savings, particularly in GUI widgets where you have zillions of instance variables, nearly all of which are left on default settings.

Most class-based languages do this because it allows O(1) lookup of instance variables. Whereas lookup in a prototype language may require wandering up the parent chain until you find the object which defined a given instance variable. That's the tradeoff: lookup speed for memory compactness.

There exist a few class-based languages which don't do this tradeoff. But I have yet to see one of this kind which _doesn't_ basically just implement prototypes underneath. Python is notable here: it doesn't have O(1) lookup to the best of my knowledge, yet doesn't allow the simplicity of prototypes either, so it's sort of the worst of both worlds IMHO.

> and class based languages can have dynamic addition of methods and variables (see ruby), and change of an instance' class (at least since Smalltalk 80 AFAICT).

And CLOS. Sure. But these are exceptions, and don't kid yourself, bolting them into class mechanisms comes at a cost of significant increases in complexity and speed (and loss of the O(1) advantage that classes provide). But in proto languages, you're just adding or changing a dictionary entry. It can't get simpler than that.

> For you first answer, I am not saying you are wrong, but I'd like to see some evidence (e.g. pointer to researches) that prototypes are "much _much_ simpler" than classes and instances.

I'm not sure if simplicity is of interest to academic research. But let me try with an example. In NewtonScript, to make a button which has a different x and y location, text, and override some function (say setText()), I'd say something like this:

myButton := {
_proto: Button,
x: 14,
y: 15,
text: "Hello, World",
setText() begin here's the code blah blah end
}

Done and done. In Java, I'd do:

public class MyButton extends JButton
{
public void setText() { here's the code blah blah }
}

MyButton foo = new MyButton();
foo.setText("Hello, World");
foo.setLocation(x,y);

If Java had done anonymous classes right I could have used that to just set the x and y and get a little closer to the NewtonScript example. But the point is: in the proto language I didn't need to declare a class just to override a method. You have to admit there's some elegance and simplicity there. Indeed, my Newtonscript code tended to be very short and simple, whereas my Lisp/CLOS, Python, and Java OO code tends not to be.
Haha, seriously, watching/listening to the news depresses the hell out of people...
Once again, France proves itself the paradise of Socialism... This is utterly unbelievable.
I'm not clear on what's supposed to be so bad about this law.

The article fails to explain that the intent of the law is to deal with the problem of orphaned works. It creates a process whereby out-of-print works can have have their copyright seized by the state, in order to make them available in digital form. Out-of-print works with a copyright date prior to 2001 are to be entered into a publicly available list. Listed works can be challenged for 6 months. Works that are not challenged within this period, have their rights seized, so that they can be published again.

Perhaps the specifics of the law are problematic, but on the surface, it looks like a great idea to me. Authors get rights to their works for 11 years, after which, if the work remains available, things proceed as they do now. But out-of-print works whose authors cannot be found, can be legally made available again. And the process has checks on possible abuses.

So what's the problem?