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> You're assuming that the rate is evenly distributed. I think it's very likely that it isn't; if you're involved in espionage or organized crime, you probably know several people who were being tracked by the FBI.

Yes, I assumed an even distribution because it's the best I can do based on available information. If the FBI would publish an annual list of the names of people they tracked and the reasons why, then we could create more precise odds based on individual circumstance.
Hi Berislav,

This is what I would do -

1. Get your basic needs covered by freelancing, but don't do more than you need.

2. Schedule time for your friends and sons. Think quality, regular time. It's not about quantity.

3. Build your business/project as much as possible in the time left. It should be a lot of time.

The logic is simple - 1 is a must, 2 is something that you really want, and when you do 3, you won't feel guilty, because you know that 1 and 2 is taken care of. This is inspired by "Unschedule".
It does matter. The more you build on predictable standards in one place the simpler things get in others.
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> 2. Tablets are the future. If Adobe doesn't make a photoshop for the iPad, someone else will and Adobe will go out of business.

OK, let's assume tablets were the future ... so how does it help Adobe (a software company) if they set such low prices for their products? They are just educating customers that software should be very cheap and there's not much worth to it.

I can understand why Apple who is a hardware company at first is interested in low software prices but for a software company this is just suicidal.
This says versioning in the URI is wrong. Why? I much prefer separating my API versions into different files at the dispatcher level. Doing it with the header would be a mess in most frameworks, and I don't see what it hurts.

Also, what about custom HTTP verbs? Many times I need something more than GET/PUT/POST/DELETE. What happens then? I haven't seen anyone talk about that.
it also wouldn't belong on a tech site.
what's annoying is that non tech articles get posted just for furthering Israel hatred and only a few call it out. then Israelis feel besieged and everybody wonders why. your reference to ww2 is fitting though not for the reason you think, but because like then, Jews were picked out for special treatment, except today we're called Zionists, so as to be politically correct
Yeah, because being overwhelmed by prolonged social interaction and preferring to spend time alone makes you an extrovert.

What???
I don't think quantifying social media ROI isn't a good idea. Building community doesn't line up numerically. I like numbers and statistics, but social media is about a one-to-one relationship with your users and community. it's hard to quantify and draw insights on a case by case basis.
The show itself used quite a few very interesting methods to do it. Basically, L played a lot of hunches and won big several times.

The part about the time of day was found out long after L had narrowed things down to a small region of Japan by provoking Light into killing someone who appeared on a "worldwide" broadcast that was actually only broadcast in Light's prefecture. The time of day part was actually used to hypothesize that Light was a student, whereupon the pattern changed to show people killed every hour of the day. And L saw through that by assuming (correctly) that Light had access to police data. It seemed like he was always watching Light's reactions to his moves, rather than the moves themselves.

Probably one of the most clever traps of all was after they met in person, when L was able to trap Light by getting evidence that Light knew something he should have no way of knowing at all by means of false evidence. He played it off as Light being too dumb to figure out the riddle, but the only reason he couldn't solve it was because he thought the answer was impossible (and he shouldn't have known that).
Wow, one would think that HN readers would be rather more interested in solving 'big problems', such as this one...

It can't exactly be classed as a political problem: it's psychological, in the sense that a populace 'gets the government it deserves'. A true revolution cannot be imposed, it must emerge from within (for analogy, consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergetics_(Haken)).

Unfortunately, the only field that effectively deals with these types of psychological 'phase changes' is science fiction. 'V for Vendetta' is a clichéd and simplistic example; there are much more interesting ones.

In 'Sam Hall', by Poul Anderson, a government bureaucrat creates an array of false records and news items for an imaginary freedom fighter named 'Sam Hall'. The character is ascribed various revolutionary deeds which gradually become legendary, and thus forms a figurehead around which the rebellion coalesces.

'The World of Null-A', by A E Van Vogt features an amazing battle on Venus in which invading military forces are thwarted by a population that has been trained to think 'super-rationally' (relevant articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons). The rest of the book(s) is probably quite controversial, but this one account was eye-opening. Closely related is 'Starship Troopers', by Robert Heinlein.

I know that these are limited examples, and are not immediate (nor even realistic) solutions for the situation in Belarus, but, as Otto Von Habsburg said: 'The only thing you learn from history is that no one learns anything from history.'

When a population learns to replace fear with a sense of self-responsibility, and super-rational thought, dictatorships become impossible. The US constitution presented some facets of these notions; but the mass education that could energize such ideas has never been implemented. I wonder why...?
I'm finding this to be more and more true as I do more and more entrepreneurial things. And I see more and more people my age or younger waiting for their big creative idea. Or thinking they're not creative enough to have a good idea.
I agree with you. Markdown is meant to be very straightforward and simple, especially since it can be augmented with HTML. MultiMarkdown[1] and GFM[2] exist as variants of Markdown that can do much more, for those who want more... and I'm sure there are other flavors.

[1]http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/
[2]http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/
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As we speak, there are torrents, sourceforge projs, and a github repo with the files. But those should be considered backups; The best place for the tarballs (if we find them all) would be at ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/ (the original source), and the src should be on w3.org as you suggested.

So, please do jump in :) I'm already behind on several "real" projects because of this :)
This Design for Developers slide presentation has some rules of thumb on font choice and size. http://www.slideshare.net/Wolfr/design-for-developersonlinev... (think this has been shared on HN before)

These are the notes I made on fonts after reading it:

Readable typeface choices: Verdana, Lucida Grande (fallback Lucida Sans Unicode), Droid Sans, Segoe UI

All text that is supposed to be read should be at least 14px

Interface (button/menu) text can go smaller for readable fonts (11, 12, 13px)

A line of text should not be longer than 60 characters (~ 2 alphabets). Long lines are hard to read.

Line height makes big difference. Use line-height 1.1 for headings, 1.5 for paragraphs
I find it more than a little odd. I've just bought the app (two computers), because it's something I've been looking for for a long time. I'd pay just for the shared clipboard feature. I can't count the number of times I had to copy a URL into a file on Dropbox, or Notational Velocity, just to be able to paste it into an E-mail being written on my laptop right next to my main machine.

Spending $50 saves me a lot of time and frustration. Also, it is much cheaper than writing the software myself (which I was seriously considering). I'm more than happy to pay that.

I also hope that because the software is well priced, the company won't feel a need to diverge into multiple half-baked products. I've seen that happen to Ironic Software (Yep, and afterwards Leap, Deep, Fresh), I'm seeing it happen to IcyBlaze (iDocument, and then Sparkbox). I'd much rather see a company develop ONE well-supported and polished app than diverge into multiple bug-ridden ones.
Possibly we just a have a different idea of what a lambda calculus is: I was thinking of Church's untyped lambda calculus, which is a much weirder beast than System FC.
> I would be more interested in his reasons to abandon Synergy.

Please check out http://www.keyboard-and-mouse-sharing.com/synergy-alternativ... for more info.
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Valid points about piracy. People use whatever way is fastest to view content, but nobody gets paid that way. How about selling virtual "tickets" that allow you to download the movie from wherever you want as long as you have bought the ticket?
If the trash is at the curb and not on your property, they can. So.. if they can do that, how is that differnet than your car parked in the street? Both are in a public area.

(note I'm only addressing the reason for asking the question. Evidence gathered from trash is useful too, and for evidence not on your private property, currently I believe no warrant is required (why should it be? It's no longer your private stuff, it's garbage headed for a public landfill.)

Vehicles are a bit different - but if the vehicle were parked in the street, and not in a private driveway, no trespass is required to plant a tracking device.

If this is now considered some kind of trespass, then the feds DO need ot re-evaluate the potential fallout from garbage-related evidence.
Thank you for your support.

> I also hope that [..] the company won't feel a need to diverge into multiple half-baked products.

You bet. Since 1998, we have a small set of well-maintained software products. ShareMouse is not a quick shot. We are here for the long run.
Zionists think they are the chosen ones right? Isnt that similar to some other idealogies?

Actually I am not pro palestina or anti isreal.
I just think that religion in its generality does not promote peac and understanding. A world without religionbwould be a better place.
"no one wants to empathize with the "other side"."
not true. Israel has active left wing and various peace movements. they just don't get much attention outside of Israel. I realize people don't like to hear this but Israel is a democracy with a wide range of opinions and representation of all society including Arabs in the government. please read up
"Right" is a moral concept, not necessarily the (empirical) truth, it's the opposite of "wrong", not of "false".
If there are factual errors, point them out. I'd like to read about them. But saying this generalically doesn't help.
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Sigh... I flagged the article. Please keep stories like this off HN, it is bad enough with the language wars people.

(I follow the Middle East conflict a bit, because it is informative to compare my Swedish media with BBC/NY Times. News items such as Pallywood or torture between Palestinian groups are literally censored.)

The basic reason I started to care a bit is because I find it depressing when people hate and demonize a whole democracy with very heterogeneous political life.

Especially if said people never criticise neither rocket artillery against cities nor the glorifying of bombing/shooting children at close range. (No, it is not the Israeli side that do that.)

I have also never seen any criticism from these people of the Arab world's way of destroying the Palestinian refugees' lives, by refusing to integrate them. This is arguably worse than anything Israel has done, even in your description of Israel.

And to start talking about organised Jewish propaganda controlling a country's media is straight up disgusting. It smacks of the muslim world's copying of traditional anti semitic hate propaganda.

Then we have the muslim world's support of the mass murders in south Sudan, which in number of dead etc must be a thousand times worse than even your description of Israel. Talk about astronomical double standards for different groups...

I could continue for a while, but this won't change your opinions. You "know" that it is OK to ignore racist hate propaganda etc etc, since it is done against the evil ones.
Unless we look at the privacy implications. Just because I Dont' want the paper anymore doesn't mean I'm putting it in the public domain..... or does it. If people find my junk useful, they can take it. but if there was some paperwork in there that I probably should have burnt or cross-cut-shred, should privacy laws not provide some kind of protection here? What if I realize the mistake before the truck comes but the feds have already taken my documents? It could be murky, and should be defined.

And for the record, I want law enforcement to be able to effectively do their jobs, and for technology to help them, but something that used to be hard and expensive that is now cheap and easy ( gps trackers instead of following people manually) should never be an excuse to abandon the fundamental principles put in place to prevent the abuse of power.
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Hm, I'm working on an app for learning how to read Japanese. (I have Emacs open right now, actually.)
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The way I see it, HN has lots of people who jump on and off of bandwagons, even before standard developers have the opportunity to use them. These sorts of negative comments are a sign that the tool is becoming mainstream, which is a good thing.
The whole presentation is about how to avoid being all that.
> this is a complex political problem that has nothing to do with the technology.

May be complex to you, but to (most of) the rest of us it is actually quite simple to understand.
"... something that used to be hard and expensive that is now cheap and easy ... "

That seems to sum up all the problems I'm seeing now. It's become so easy/cheap to track people, that the cost of doing so doesn't have to figure as prominently in the decision.
>>do you think a newly found state (~65 years) has any right to claim the territory it occupies (except of the might makes right variety)?

Please explain to me, what makes Israel worse than all the other area changes after the world wars?

Let's look at Karelia. Do you think the Finns should start bombarding St Petersburg with rocket artillery? (And would you expect such a mild response from Russia as Israeli has shown...?)

The main difference I can see is that Israel makes for a good external enemy for a bunch of really disgusting dictators.

>>Backed up with routine genocide tactics...

Last time I checked the population growth in Gaza was one of the fastest on the planet. So you use the worst accusations possible to make as "arguments". Seems like hate propaganda to me.

And so on. Get this subject of HN.
Me too.
I highly suspect Coca Cola was specifically designed in a way that it can not quench one's thirst.
Once you open a bottle, you can not stop drinking it until it is finished.
That's why I completely stopped drinking Coca Cola few years ago.
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I think that you should consider if your opinion is the opinion of statistically significant number of users. From what I know, wordpress.com has millions of users and only small percent take part in such discussions. Can it be because most of them like or don't mind changes? Many times I've seen a group of users complaining, but after a rollback of changes I had to deal with another one with opposite views. It eventually leads to all users thinking that you are a jerk. I personally like to ignore such requests, as it keeps the size of unhappy group almost constant and I don't have to do anything I don't like.
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Because browser support for any method but POST and GET still is spotty at best, your fears of breakage are totally irrelevant because rails still has to use the POST method and set some flag (_method in params) to cause the backend to interpret the POST as a different method.

The PATCH method thing only becomes relevant in conjunction with APIs where I would hope that you have enough control over your environment to not having to deal with broken proxies.

On the upside, using PATCH instead of PUT, in the context as PUT is used most often these days (partial updates) is more compliant with HTTP which says that the body of a PUT request should contain the whole resource, not just parts that change.
If everyone is going to be using _method, then there is no advantage to using a specific method at all. If I tell people "I have an API: you use PATCH to use it", but in fact if you do that it no longer works behind a ton of proxies, you either don't use it before shipping or it's too late.

Imagine if this was "we are using a new non-HTTP network protocol, and the answer to "how will you get it through proxies" is not "we tested it: it works" but instead "we have a way to tunnel it over HTTP"... that is a non-answer that undermines the entire purpose of having a new protocol, and restating it with pointlessly denegrating statements about people who don't know about the tunneling system doesn't help: it just makes the feature that much more questionable. :(
I agree it would be interesting but it does assume there is such a thing as being "on to something" which could be separated from ability to execute.

A massive part of success is execution and a big part of that is being able to work out what you can achieve within whatever financial constraints exist.

I guess one potential way of generating some data might be to look for startups which were gaining significant traction but then ran out of cash?
> ideas for how to market this app

Make one for iPhone & iPad, in terms of value-for-money this is much better than marketing Android-only app.
Having to define a Content-Type like "application/vnd.my-service+json" and submit it to a standards body and then approved like described in Amundsen's book is hardly practical or desirable.

Yeah, but that's why I chose media types in the Vendor Tree (application/vnd.) as examples - as far as I can tell, they do not need to be registered with IANA. And I'm sure they don't have to be reviewed, even if you do register them:

public exposure and review of media types to be
registered in the vendor tree is not required

For example, Github uses application/vnd.github and I don't think they've ever registered that.

The way I see it, defining types in a JSON format to help with type-marshalling until that format is successful and thus merits standardization is far more effective at promoting innovation than starting with submission to a standards body so that everyone can comment on (i.e. bikeshed) about a format until it gains acceptance.

Sure, but it doesn't have to be a standard to have its own mimetype. Just put it after your company's name (application/vnd.COMPANY.FORMAT) and forget about registration, imho.

Sure, a standard would be better, but this is still way better than having to use an hack like that.
Well on the other hand, one could also argue that when you put the trash on curb you give away any rights to it - which means that the trash becomes a public property that Feds have access to.

Vehicles on the other hand, even when they are on public property still belong to the owner and hence although no trespassing is required in planting the device (inside or outside the vehicle), the Feds would still be meddling with private property.
I think cperciva was trying to point out that if you have no reasonable basis to make a distribution assumption you also have no basis to make a conclusion.

In my own life I've been trying to abide more by Wittgenstein's Tractatus conclusion:

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. ("Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.")
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I also suck at design, so I always find a palette I like on colourlovers.com and it works good.
What I've come to realise is that if you try to make an API of any sort, somebody, somewhere, will write a post about how you're defiling the HTTP protocol.
Nice idea. I absolutely understand what you're getting at since I've had the exact same idea/need in the past.

I really like your design but one thing springs to mind when I look at your screencaps.
When I'm learning how to write a complicated kanji, I'd greatly appreciate having as much room on the screen as possible.
It affords greater precision and the details are better shown.
So maybe make the drawing area bigger?

Now having tried it for just a minute or two, I'm not sure I entirely like your recognition algorithm. It said I was wrong!
Seriously though, while my hand writing is pretty sloppy at times, I'd still like to think my hand writing is legible.
The algorithm seems a lot less sensitive about straight lines than some of the more curly bits. Take あ for instance. I while the second stroke was well off it accepted that while rejecting the third stroke for not bending back enough way at the end.

Since algorithmic solution is rather hard I might actually suggest going a whole different direction.
If you've ever tried applications like Anki, they ask the user herself to select the result, which to me seems to work fairly well.
The least I would want is probably some kind of intermediate level in between Good and Wrong.

Hope it helps and good luck!
Aber, Hoffnung ist nur mangel auf Information ;-)