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that's good feedback!

The original reason for this was accountability - I don't want to build a marketplace where any random username can just put up a photo of a product and collect money into a paypal account. That seems like it's asking for trouble.

But I also see what you are saying. First name + initial is a decent compromise.
garazy > do you have things to sell?

I'm kind of concentrating on one region for now (Singapore) so I've been letting those people in first from the waiting list, but if you have things to sell I'll let you in :)
"The meltdown also revealed dangerous links in the financial system few had previously realized—that losses in the U.S. housing market could trigger losses in huge stock portfolios that had nothing to do with housing. It was utter chaos driven by pure fear. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. This wasn't supposed to happen!"

The author admits the link here. Then lists all sorts of erratic behavior in the stock market. And ultimately fails to connect how quants caused an unsustainable housing bubble.
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Is there any reason you didn't implement any search or filtering feature?
Ehh... It can be argued that Pinterest really is a female thing but the idea behind it most certainly isn't. Those two ideas seem contradictory but I think what makes it so appealing to women is the sharing part of it. Women love to share their needs and desires, especially material ones, publicly or so it seems.

Men definitely do similar things but they just don't share it. Just today I met with a founder and we were discussing ideas for his startup when he pulled out am iPad and showed me a scent sized collection of screen shots and images of features, designs, pricing plans for services, and other things he'd been collecting that he was mulling over using and wanted. There were also a number of folders in his collection that I did not see but am positive were full of clippings of other material things and ideas he wanted.

It's a lot like having an idea book for design or a box of junk except the junk isn't junk to you, only to everyone else. We all do it but I think the super social nature of women as far as these things go is makes it so appealing to women.

Or I'm a totally insensitive sexist who needs to shut up now. Either way I'm really not married to the idea it's just my take.
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If you look at the kickstarter page, they state that it's because automated map folding works poorly for this folding method. I doubt that it's impossible, but it's a hurdle to overcome.
Of course. Just do some review and learn new a language, you can still go back to programming.
Dr. Eggert is a lecturer at UCLA, and a fantastic one at that (not to mention a huge contributor to various GNU projects). This quarter I have the pleasure of taking his Operating Systems class, and last year I got to take Programming Languages taught by him. I'm really happy about this outcome because people like him should never have to have their brilliance tempered by patent trolls.
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I glad this feedback is useful.

To show how potentially creepy this is, I googled your users. I was able to find the user's linkedin and twitter in the 1st page of the search results.

Anyways, good luck. I love the idea, and your design is fantastic. Best of luck going forward.
> (3) The task switching is just as bad as the author says.

I was puzzling over this because he says there is no way to task switch from the keyboard and yet:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/08/12/tip-want-the-app-swi...

From what I understand, Alt-Tab task switching was delivered in the 3.2 update - can you clarify whether that's true or not?

Fwiw, I strongly suspect that the task-switching experience varies enormously depending on what you switch between. Firefox is probably a worst-possible-case because it'll use loads of memory and force Android to kill all other apps.
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Well as I said, that is kind of the idea. There needs to be some form of accountability so anonymous people don't just sell fake things.

But yes, full disclosure might not be appropriate.
You might find that Gunther's "Universal Law of Computational Scalability" to be enlightening.
You can also do cd $(mktemp -d) and get a new one if you need another one.
yup! it's an MVP (a few days of work?) and there's only like 50 products in the database right now :)

If I get to over 100 products I'll put in filtering controls.
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Just a quick note on the claimed fork bomb. It may not have been all that nice to other users, but there may have been a method to their madness:

http://dtors.org/2010/08/25/reversing-latest-exploid-release...
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Switch does not solve the problem, "backup battery"? You're just delaying the inevitable, why not just demand that they make the batteries bigger in the first place?

What good does a "mini engine" do? You can't turn it on automatically, that's an enormous safety risk and would never make it past insurers or the government, and it can only last as long as its fuel holds out, again you're just delaying the inevitable. Solar panels don't help if you're parked in a garage, which is where most people park their fancy roadsters, and they'd have to be huge to maintain the charge anyway.

And absolutely none of this contradicts my original point: It's a technological limitation. This is how batteries work. You're not proposing a solution, you're proposing unworkable band-aids.
When you work extremely hard, beat the odds, you are too tired and haven't slept, and then manage to reach a milestone.

You suddenly begin to feel a sweet sense of pain. The feeling is just so beautiful that it feels amazing.

I've had that feeling quite a few number of times. And I will do anything to feel like that again.
Haha we just had that last week ( finished Buffer Overflow Lab a few hours ago! ), its definitely helping.
I wonder why we still use the same old E-ink technology on the market right now. There are a number of other technologies (Mirasol, Liquavista, and more) which are better in terms of contrast, refresh rates and all. It could be all linked to pricing: if nobody is ready to pay for a e-reader costing more than xxx dollars, maybe we will be stuck with E-ink for a long time. It may be "Ok" for some people, but for me e-ink has a far too low resolution to be attractive enough to replace paper.
Does this mean that TZ database is back at elsie.nih.gov?
Aigh, you beat me to it.

pg, please fix this. It drives me batty that after a page is open for a little while the "more" link breaks. That should never, ever, ever happen.
Now you also have the skills to work with a sales team. Consider that a bonus to your programming skills.
This is sort of true. If you want to use the account as a developer account you have to register your phone number. Also probably to advertise.

I recently wanted to create an "Admin" account for a client I was developing a web-app for as I didn't want to link my personal facebook account to my work. But with the phone number requirement the account got flagged and rejected from the system.

Frustrating!
There are probably better ways of doing this but I just use Chrome now exclusively for Google services. I don't login to Google on my primary browser anymore. I'm hoping this will limit their stalking a bit. I don't mind if they read my mail since that's the price I pay for using the service but I'm getting a little paranoid about the other things they might be doing. Better to keep it sandboxed away from the rest of my browsing.
A better book is "The Big Short" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short) its got some incredible stories regarding the market for CDOs and the GFC. A few people in the know actually saw it happening, bet against the whole system, and won.
I think the short version is: in the past 5 years, simple wire-oriented serialisation formats have become much more common. At the time you had your pick of ASN (humongous) or Thrift (brand new).
In my understanding, 44.1 kHz was chosen because it's twice the maximum of human hearing (22 kHz), and thus you can reproduce all audible sounds without worrying about aliasing (as per the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory). What is the point of going higher?
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I don't think sleep can be counted out of life.

Dreams are the most beautiful things to ever happen to humans. I have always lived two lives one in dreams and one while am awake.

And some experiences that I've had dreaming just can't be had while I'm awake.
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For reference, here's the Wikipedia article for the Loudness War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war). In my opinion, hip hop producers like Timbaland and Dr. Dre really ratcheted up the effective loudness of songs by introducing heavy compression.

It's the (sad) reason why the Beatles' albums have been "re-mastered" and re-released so many times over the years -- our 21st century ears are so used to compressed music that old Beatles albums sound too quiet to us.
It's even worse than that paper describes and this is something that every statistics 101 class worth its salt points out: if you are allowed to choose a statistical test after you've gathered your data you can prove any conclusion you want with arbitrarily high confidence. Note that the paper does not list choosing a test before you gather the data as a requirement. The only way to do meaningful statistics is the way splat describes: describe exactly how you're going to analyze it before you gather the data, then send the paper to a journal which decides whether to publish it before the data has been gathered, and then complete the paper by actually doing the experiment and adding the data to the paper.
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> And ultimately fails to connect how quants caused an unsustainable housing bubble.

I don't think that the NAFC has a single cause, or even that the graph of causes is directed and acyclic.
Well, good. If this catches on, it might increase the likelihood that I'll be able to buy ebooks from other than Amazon. I'd like to have that option into the future.
Depending where in the US you look, the price of gas has done anything from less than doubling to increasing more than five-fold over the past decade.* It's not $8/gallon, but there are definitely places where you'd have to pay $4-6 per gallon, and it's only becoming more widespread. If there's one thing US citizens have shown, though, it's that they're perfectly willing to continue shelling out more and more money to drive ridiculously inefficient vehicles, even while they grumble about the spiraling price and (depending where you look) speak of mythical, massive reserves of oil the US supposedly has that could last the US anywhere from decades to centuries, depending who you ask.

Simply adding more costs onto gas is going to do nothing more to change what the average US citizen drives then what the past decade of price increases have.

* This is based on anecdote and recollection; I don't have any sources to back it up, but if it's wrong one way or the other, more than likely it's conservative.
I don't know why you think that's creepy. They put that information out there to begin with and for a reason (to be read by humans). Some things online require an identity. Things that involve money also involve real-life consequences and responsibilities to different parties.

It would be an overwhelmingly bad idea to start letting sellers hide behind usernames if those sellers are responsible for accepting money and shipping products. (This would be somewhat solved by Tinytrunk handling payments, but that goes against one of his stated goals of not charging processing fees.)
Actually I'm not a US citizen at all, and still I have a better chance of influencing a decision by the US government than most UN member nations' citizens have in their own countries.
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> our 21st century ears are so used to compressed music that old Beatles albums sound too quiet to us.

I wouldn't mind so much that an album is quiet, if any MP3 player actually allowed me to turn it up to a reasonable level (letting me sacrifice the listening experience on my own terms, when and if applicable.) Why is VLC the only* piece of software to combine volume level and compression-gain into a single output slider?

* Amusingly, the iPod's software knows how to apply compression just-in-time--but it only does it if you've applied a "volume adjustment" pragma to the song in iTunes. And then whenever the song comes up, you have to turn down your volume slider from 80% to 30% to avoid having your ears fall off, because "loud" on desktop speakers is a very different thing than "loud" on in-ear headphones.
I added a suggestion to that effect on the Feature Request thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363) a while ago, but it slipped off into the long tail of comments pretty quickly:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1480352
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Unit tests, code reviews, pair programming, procedures, etc are all tools. Their use depends on the circumstances. In some cases unit tests are the absolute wrong thing to do. For instance what if you have been given two days to prepare a client demo on which a large contract rests. Unfortunately, a great many people have found that they can exist in the corporate world simply by complaining about things and never really doing anything. Either that or they don't know what their doing. These are the people who try to enforce rules like 'every commit has to be code reviewed' or 'every single line has to be unit tested.' Usually its at a small, new company where the guy put in charge is still beginner-intermediate level. In these situations there is usually cargo cult behavior going on and a desire to look like experienced devs by making stupid rules for everyone else.
> totally insensitive sexist who needs to shut up now

Don't worry about this. Really. It's a very valid psychological observation that there's overall differences between men and women.

It's only sexist if you ignore that these differences can result from a large combination of socialization, upbringing, and culture (in addition to some genetics). It would only be sexist if you were being partial or biased in your analysis in a way that favored a gender.
Good points made here. And also similar to Google's working environment so I've heard, i.e. little or no rules, flexible time, employees are expected to be very self motiviated, hardly any meetings, etc.
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When downsampling or recording, and when playing back 44.1 kHz audio, the data must be low-pass filtered to eliminate aliasing effects.

But filters aren't perfect. Even a decent low-pass filter (say 3rd order Butterworth) requires an order of magnitude of bandwidth to drop the output 60 dB (practically inaudible). This means that with a Nyquist limit of 22 kHz, you're either attenuating everything above 2.2 kHz (the "knee"), or you're letting some aliasing noise through.

With a 192 kHz sampling rate, the filter's knee can rise to 9.6 kHz, and the stuff between 9.6 kHz and 20 kHz won't be appreciably attenuated.

It's important to note also that this attenuation can't be fixed by simply boosting the high end -- filters are linear, so such an adjustment (with an equivalent order filter) would merely cancel out the low pass filtering and reintroduce aliasing noise.

(Edit: I am not an audio engineer but I have a strong signal theory background. So actual audio engineers please feel free to correct me.)
"Why is it so bad to get old?"

Loss of facility, and younger people increasingly ignore you. That latter is karma for many of us. Plus ça something something I forget.
This would probably be illegal under anti-collusion statutes.

Similarly, Apple, Dell and Lenovo can't legally form an agreement between themselves to double the price of all computers.
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It's done on purpose as a concrete example of how _not_ to code a social news aggregator.

If I were coding a site like this, I'm certain 'how to handle next page links' would be near the top of the problem list. I am also quite certain I would not pick a solution that gives an empty white page with 'link expired' on it.
I don't see how that improves anything. If you click that link, you still see "nothing here".
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Neat in concept, but mostly useless in that it recommended pretty much all projects that I have zero interest in (javascript/coffeescript stuff), which is odd considering I'm not watching any Javascript projects, or at least I don't think I am. It made a couple of shell recommendations, one for IE which I would never touch, one for Spark which I already have installed, and one for Gitflow. Gitflow seems neat though, so I guess one good recommendation might have been worth the rest of the noise?
"From what I understand, Alt-Tab task switching was delivered in the 3.2 update"

Yes, it's there - except in Firefox, of course, which does something to break it. It's nice, but doesn't address the other problems of apps behaving inconsistently when resumed or disappearing from the task list (it's the same list between the button and alt-tab).

"Firefox is probably a worst-possible-case"

Indeed. No argument there. OTOH, practically all of the problems attributable to Firefox also occur with other browsers - I've tried five - as well.
I used to keep a local city map folded up this way in my backpack just in case I needed to go somewhere I hadn't been before or got lost biking, or somesuch, it was super useful.

However, the advent of smartphones has made that sort of thing less useful. And for serious wilderness navigation this kind of map folding is very unhelpful since maps tend to be big and it helps to keep the map partially folded so you can focus on one area.
it's 123456, and that's pretty common across a lot of sites.
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The entire essay is about how pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women, and has one line flatly and bizarrely stating that it is not feminine. How not?
Partly yes, but also because of the data requirements of the format (CD). Bit depth is important too because it defines the number of locus points available to you when measuring a wave, so the more bit depth you get the closer the digital representation of the wave becomes to the original analogue source.

This is a point that often gets lost in these discussions: the whole point of digital audio is mean't to be a more efficient capturing and distribution of analogue source, as such the more information you can capture about each instance in time the closer your digital reproduction can get to the original analogue wave.
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GoCardless is an example of a startup that came out to YC and moved back to their native London. They're thriving.
Men don't share? You check out this site Reddit.com where a few guys get together to share pictures of stuff they like.
I think I worded that unclearly, and we pretty much agree. What I meant was that hopefully the costs of healing a bunch of people will be so much lower in the future that people won't see any reason not to thaw out some frozen folks who would once have been considered terminally ill, even if there were no financial incentive to do so. Obviously I hope that everybody who gets frozen also has sizable long-term investments which work out well and make them loads of money, and I find that the most likely scenario, but I'd rather not depend entirely on it. Crazy black swan events have been known to wreck even really good plans. (This is also the thing that appeals to me about the plans for building enormous tanks that can keep their occupants cold for prolonged periods without maintenance, in case something goes badly wrong for a while.)

You make some really interesting points about scaling. Cryonics could aggregate together demand for cures to rare problems, which would change the economic incentives for medical R&D. I hadn't thought of that, but you're right.
I'm not sure I feel strongly about either side of the discussion, but just to be clear you're saying you think it would be "an overwhelmingly bad idea to [create ebay]"?
The point isn't that it's an improvement, the point is that it's completely different. It's the "standard" way of doing pagination (limit + offset), not a continuation.
Not only that, but it seems to be paginating comments at an absurdly low count, I went back to reference an old thread and I went 5 pages in before I got tired of looking for the right comment. That and I've been bitten by "expired" links three times today alone, once while I was trying to submit a comment.
You've got the wrong metric. The reason some men have lots of sexual partners is because many men want lots of sexual partners, and some have the ability to do so. On the other hand, most women of even mediocre attractiveness can have lots of sexual partners, but fewer of them want to. This is just as you would expect based on the relative energy investment men and women make in producing offspring. Other animals with similar asymmetries in energy investment have similar sexual behavior to humans.

Incidentally, this observation puts the lie to the idea that having a stud/slut dichotomy is a "double standard". Having different standards for men and women makes sense; being a stud is hard, while being a slut is easy. Indeed, the vast majority of whining about "gender double standards" can be rebutted with the simple observation that men and women are different.
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Has anyone implemented this digitally with CSS animations?